Faced with Ma Tingting's question, Liu Haotian did not answer immediately, but fell into deep thought.
Ma Tingting said with a mocking look on her face: "Why, don't you, Secretary Liu, even dare to face this issue directly?"
Liu Haotian slowly raised his head and said in a deep voice: "Comrade Ma Tingting, this question is not as simple as you seem."
"Isn't this question simple?" Ma Tingting asked.
Liu Haotian nodded seriously: "Of course this issue is not simple. Diversion from general to vocational education means that after the nine-year compulsory education, after the children graduate from junior high school, regardless of whether the students are willing or not, they will be diverted based on their grades.
It is said that there are three reasons given:
First of all, the diversified development of high school education is an internationally accepted practice, and secondary vocational education is also one of the key tasks.
Second, secondary vocational education provides a variety of talents that can satisfy different groups of people.
Third, to expand employment, improve people’s livelihood, and promote social and economic development.”
Ma Tingting nodded: "These three reasons are often reported in the newspapers, so there should be no problem."
Liu Haotian shook his head gently: "Reporter Ma, I can tell you my point of view clearly.
First, I think there is no problem with the direction of this idea of diversion from general to professional positions. Moreover, diversion from general to professional positions can indeed objectively meet the needs of different industries and levels.
Or should I say this, each of these three reasons is impeccable and correct.
However, these three reasons ignore a lot of things:
Diversification of high school education is indeed an internationally accepted practice, but the educational development needs of different national conditions must be considered.
Take our country as an example. For urban parents, I believe that most parents, especially those born in the 1970s and 1980s, will try every means to send their children to college, because their generation is really
They feel that the level of education has a direct impact on their employment and income levels.
This is a painful experience for parents!
Why do parents in the city start to get involved when their children are still in kindergarten? Are they crazy about signing up for various cram schools?
The fundamental reason is that they all hope that their children will be admitted to college and a prestigious university in the future!
Because this will determine the children's future income level and social status.
If we apply a one-size-fits-all approach to the separation of jobs from urban to rural areas, or even stipulate a half-to-half ratio, it would be very unscientific, and even a foolish decision!
Because of the current national conditions in our country, most parents hope that their children will go to high school or college, even a third-rate university!
And social practice has also proved that even for students from a third-rate college, their employment index and income level are often higher than those of students at the technical secondary school level!"
Speaking of this, Liu Haotian softened his tone: "Of course, I am not saying that I deny secondary vocational education, because secondary vocational education embodies those good schools and has indeed cultivated many talents for society.
The real reality is that if we look at it now, how many students in these secondary vocational education schools across the country are just dawdling. Why is it that secondary vocational education is not popular in society now?
The reason is that the quality of teaching is low and students cannot learn real things in these schools.
In society, many companies often set the minimum academic qualifications when recruiting. When more than 70% of companies recruit, the minimum required education is a college degree!
Under such circumstances, the mandatory implementation of the separation of general and professional vocational services will inevitably aggravate the intense anxiety of parents and will inevitably make the involution between families even more intense!"
Hearing what Liu Haotian said, Ma Tingting nodded slightly. He felt that what Liu Haotian said was very reasonable.
Liu Haotian continued: "Reporter Ma, your generation may not know much about it. In the 1980s and 1990s, the generation born between 1970 and 1980 clearly remember that during those 10 years
Secondary vocational education is very popular, and the admission scores of many excellent secondary vocational education schools are much higher than those of ordinary high schools. Many outstanding junior high school graduates will choose to apply for technical secondary schools and technical schools.
Why?
The reason is very simple, because at that time, technical technical schools were often allocated, and their teaching quality was pretty good. Otherwise, there would not be so many outstanding junior high school graduates choosing technical technical schools.
But with the development of the times, when the generation born after 1980 chooses a school, many people have begun to choose to go to high school instead of technical secondary school. Because the country has developed by that time, technical secondary school
Technical schools are no longer responsible for allocation. Children need to find jobs on their own. In this case, academic education is the key factor that can truly determine a person's future and destiny.
If you don’t go to college, if you don’t even have a college degree, then many job opportunities in the future will have nothing to do with you!
Especially at the level of mental work, a college degree is the minimum requirement!
Why are secondary vocational education and advanced vocational education so developed in foreign countries?
The reason is very simple, because foreign countries have long been stratified, and it is very difficult for ordinary people's children to get into a good university. Even if their grades can meet the requirements of some good universities, their family's financial conditions must also be able to meet the requirements.
The financial requirements of a good university are because in Western countries such as the United States, almost most of the top 10 universities are private universities.
So if you want to go to a good university, in addition to good grades, a wealthy family is also a basic requirement!
In our country, as long as you can get into high school and your grades are good enough, you can choose among the top universities in the country!
At this point, we are much more fair and equitable than Western countries. It can be said that for our generation of children born in the 1980s, the college entrance examination is the most important step in life that changes our destiny!
Going to college is the only hope for many children born in rural and poor families to escape poverty!
Reporter Ma, if you don’t believe it, you can go to our rural areas below Tianhe City and do a thorough research for a month. As long as you do enough research, you will find that in the countryside, it is really ten years to the east of Hedong and ten years to Hexi!
Ten years ago, a poor family's income level would skyrocket due to the birth of a college student, far exceeding the income level of rural families in the same village who were once richer than them!
Why are parents generally under a lot of pressure nowadays?
The reason is simple, because the children are going to college!
If the separation of general and professional services is not handled well, it will only aggravate parents’ anxiety.
I think that our society has actually been carrying out social activities such as the separation of general and professional positions.
What our Tianhe Municipal Government, especially the Tianhe Municipal Education Commission, should do is to continuously strengthen the level of secondary vocational and technical education in Tianhe City and create several excellent secondary vocational education colleges, especially to make these secondary vocational education colleges
The teaching level is recognized by society, especially by enterprises, so that they are willing to go directly to these secondary vocational education colleges to recruit personnel, which can solve the future employment problems of students in these schools.
At the same time, we must also unblock the channel from secondary vocational education to higher education and ensure that students who have been admitted to secondary vocational education schools must be given the opportunity to take the college entrance examination if they want to go to university, especially formal full-time universities.
Chance!
Only by simultaneously improving the teaching quality of secondary vocational education and unblocking the channels for secondary vocational students to obtain higher education opportunities can we make the transfer of general vocational education more meaningful and prevent the transfer of general vocational education from becoming a source of anxiety for parents.
policy!
Otherwise, parents' anxiety will lead to more serious involution, and they will inevitably find ways to have their children attend more cram schools and try to improve their children's academic performance, especially in primary school and junior high school. In this way,
The pressure on children will be increasing, and the double reduction policy is intended to reduce the burden on students and parents. Even if those extracurricular tutoring institutions and training classes are canceled through the double reduction policy, new institutions will surely emerge.
Because parents have a rigid need to improve their children’s academic performance, the market will definitely make corresponding choices! Even if there are no education and training institutions, there will definitely be other alternative ways to realize parents’ wishes, because if there is demand, there will definitely be
The market is just a different name. It’s just a transformation of education and training from above ground to underground.
Therefore, there are actually internal conflicts between the policy of diversion from general posts and the policy of double reduction."
Ma Tingting heard what Liu Haotian said and nodded vigorously again: "Listening to your words is worth ten years of reading.
Secretary Liu, can you summarize your views?"
Liu Haotian nodded: "My point of view is: the diversion of general vocational education is very necessary. Secondary vocational education and general high school education should be developed in a coordinated manner, which can not only meet the learning needs of students with different talents and potentials, but also provide diversified space for growth and success.
Channel. However, the relevant ratios cannot be rigidly set, but the choices of society and parents should be respected, and this upward channel for children from poor families and rural families to change their destiny cannot be artificially blocked!"
At the end, Liu Haotian smiled self-deprecatingly: "Actually, there are only so many high schools in each region, and the total number of enrollments is also limited. No matter how many students there are, there are only so many schools, so there is no need to call it a general vocational school.
What is the proportion of diversion? Moreover, as parents’ survival pressure increases, their desire to have children declines, and as the birth rate declines, maybe 10 years from now, whether it is primary school, junior high school or high school, I am afraid that the existing
The size of the school may not be able to fill it!
To sum up, I personally believe that the real purpose of general vocational education should be to give students with poor academic performance and students who are unwilling to go to high school and go to college an opportunity to receive education! Secondary vocational education should be high school education.
It is a good opportunity for auxiliary education, rather than letting secondary vocational education and high school education compete with each other! Otherwise, it will violate the original intention of the separation of general vocational education!
Because the purpose of our education is to improve the overall quality of the people and to ensure employment and people's livelihood!"
After Liu Haotian finished speaking, Ma Tingting and the photographer were both silent. They suddenly discovered that Liu Haotian, the municipal party secretary, was really thoughtful, and his thinking mode was different from others.
Ma Tingting suddenly raised her head and said: "Secretary Liu, after listening to you say so much, it really touched me that education is the basis of a century-old plan, and education is related to the future of our entire nation, so we must attach great importance to education.
Secretary Liu, can you take me to the primary and secondary schools below Tianhe City to have a look?
I want to really feel the education situation in Tianhe City."
Liu Haotian looked at his watch and then said: "Well, I still have something important to do this morning. It will be over in an hour and a half. At that time, it will be around 10:30. I will take you two to the nearest airport in Tianhe City.
Let’s go and have a look at a primary school.”
Ma Tingting nodded: "Then let's wait for Secretary Liu downstairs. We'll go there together then."
An hour and a half later, Liu Haotian finished the meeting, changed into casual clothes, and took Ma Tingting and Municipal Party Committee Secretary-General Xu Jiajun by car to Huayao Primary School in Tianhe City, one kilometer away.
It was a coincidence that they arrived just as Huayao Primary School was holding a parent-teacher meeting. The school door was open. It happened that the security guard received a call and walked into the guard room. When Lu Tianbiao saw this, he drove the car without saying a word.
Went in and avoided the security checks.
Ma Tingting glanced at Lu Tianbiao and said, "Secretary Liu, you are a very thief driver."
Lu Tianbiao's forehead was suddenly filled with black lines.
Liu Haotian said with a smile: "It's a lucky day today, we just slipped in. I just don't know if there will be a teacher checking after following these parents into the class, so we will do our best to do it later.
Feel for yourself what a parent-teacher conference in elementary school is like."
The security guard at the door actually saw Liu Haotian and the others driving in, but he was very excited when he received the call, because the boss said that he would be given a salary increase, and the car Liu Haotian and the others drove had a pretty good license plate number, and it was a Hongqi sedan.
Therefore, the security guard thought that the student's parents were probably officials, so he just went in and did not pursue him any further.
Liu Haotian followed a large group of parents into a classroom.
There were originally 52 people in this class. It happened that one student recently took a leave of absence, and another student transferred to another school, so two seats were vacant.
Liu Haotian and Ma Tingting, the two fake parents, followed the other parents into the classroom and randomly found two adjacent seats in the second row from the bottom to sit down.
When the other two real parents came in, they found that there were only two empty tables left. Although there was some dirt on the two tables, they could only hold their noses and go on, still complaining about the school hygiene.
Not cleaned well.
At this moment, a female teacher in her 30s walked in and walked directly to the podium. This female teacher was Miao Cuixia, the head teacher of this class.
Miao Cuixia stood on the podium, glanced down, and frowned: "Why are there parents sitting on those two empty seats?
Didn’t I tell those students again and again that only one parent can come per family?”