The Ministry of education responded to the topic of burden reduction, and the burden reduction work should be comprehensively considered and grasped
On November 5, at the briefing of the Ministry of education, the surging news asked questions. At present, the reduction of students' burden has aroused heated discussion in the society. First, Nanjing parents are crazy, and then the draft for comments on reducing the burden of primary and middle school students in Zhejiang cited disputes. How to treat the local burden reduction measures and how to reduce the burden scientifically and reasonably?
In this regard, Yu Weiyue, deputy director of the Department of basic education of the Ministry of education, replied that relevant parties in Nanjing have replied, mainly due to the inaccurate understanding of the burden reduction supervision work and the simplification of implementation, which has caused misunderstandings by the society and some parents. The 30 articles on reducing the burden in Zhejiang is a social draft for comments. The purpose behind it is to further improve it according to the reflection and actual feelings of the public, not the final implementation result. In fact, the starting point of the regulation of homework time is to ensure students' sleep time.
He stressed that to promote burden reduction, we must maintain concentration, follow the law, comprehensively consider the demands of all parties, increase and decrease, and grasp the degree.
The focus of burden reduction is different at different stages.
Yu Weiyue said in his reply that burden reduction is a comprehensive and complex project, and the government, society, schools and other parties are responsible. To reduce the academic burden of primary and secondary schools, we can not simply shorten the school time, reduce the amount of homework and reduce the difficulty of schoolwork. We should fully implement the concept of Building Morality and cultivating people, increase and decrease, subtract intensive training, brush questions for exams, exceed the unreasonable burden outside school, increase aesthetic education and sports, especially make up for the shortcomings of labor education, and avoid indiscriminate, aimless and mandatory burden reduction. At the same time, we should further improve the quality of education and teaching, deepen the reform of the college entrance examination, strengthen the guidance of quality education, and solve the problem of the baton.
In response to the statement that "burden reduction is ineffective" in society, Yu Weiyue pointed out that burden reduction is not ineffective, but has completed its historical mission at a certain stage.
He further explained that burden reduction is an old problem. Since the founding of new China, China has generally carried out burden reduction in six stages, from the initial burden reduction of improving teaching content, promoting the integration of book knowledge and social practice courses, to curbing one-sided exam oriented burden reduction, promoting curriculum reform and burden reduction, correcting the problem of old curriculum content, and then Deepening School Governance and burden reduction, The school has achieved results in reducing the burden.
At present, the main burden of students' studies comes from outside school. Facing the new situation, burden reduction has become a new problem.
'from 2017 to the present, it is mainly to reduce the excessive extra-curricular burden, mainly to solve the problems of reducing the burden inside the school, increasing the burden outside the school, reducing the burden on teachers and increasing the burden on parents, and take standardizing the governance of after-school training institutions as the entrance and improving the level of education as the focus to implement comprehensive measures and reduce the burden systematically.' Yu Weiyue said.
He pointed out that over the past year, off campus burden reduction has achieved preliminary results. For example, the number of national competitions for primary and secondary schools has been reduced to 29, mainly projects of comprehensive quality development, and the interest chain of social training, competition and enrollment of primary and secondary schools has been cut from the source.
Reducing the burden is not to let students have no burden. They must make due efforts to become talents.
Some parents believe that they should no longer reduce the burden on their children, while others say that they should carry out the burden reduction to the end. How should we understand the academic burden?
Yu Weiyue explained that a reasonable academic burden is necessary. Learning cannot be without pressure and burden. Reasonable academic burden is a necessary condition for students to develop their intelligence, stimulate their potential and exercise their ability.
He pointed out that the compulsory education and ordinary high school curriculum program standards, scientific setting contents and the proportion of various disciplines formulated by us provide the basic basis for students to complete their studies. The tasks corresponding to students' curriculum programs and curriculum standards are their due learning obligations and necessary efforts. This should not be an excessive academic burden. Reducing the burden is not reducing the curriculum standards, It is not to let students have no burden. They must make due efforts to become talents.
In addition, the feeling of burden varies from person to person. The same course, different environment, interests, habits and learning ability will make all or individual students feel different about learning pressure. At present, through the data survey, 70% of students in the stage of compulsory education feel little academic pressure.
In terms of international comparison, Yu Weiyue said that the survey shows that the academic burden of primary and secondary school students in China is generally at the middle level among middle and upper income countries, which is generally moderate.