Autumn, a young girl who has just graduated from kindergarten classes, is a very busy summer vacation, with five classes a week, three classes a day in the morning and three in the afternoon, all mathematics, spelling, literacy and young english, and a good student in a model classroom. Autumn's mother said that this young step-by-step shift was intended to make children better equipped for their upcoming primary school life and to win on the starting line. Yesterday, journalists interviewed a number of training institutions in the island to learn that, although only two months were short, the cost of small shifts ranged from $4,000 to $5,000。
"preventing the atmosphere of primary school"
“career education is completely different from primary education, and instead of allowing the child to adapt after primary school, it is better for the child to feel the atmosphere of primary school in advance of this holiday.” our junior high-school education is in step with the general primary education, and when we go to primary school in the last two months, the children feel like they're just changing classrooms.” “we help lay the foundation for our children, primary school is the starting point for lower secondary, upper secondary and university education, and you don't want them to lose at the starting line.” faced with the training of school promoters who distribute leaflets in front of the kindergarten, ms. Sun, who is taking her children out of school, has a sense of brainwashing, and the more she hears of the need for her son, who is six years old, to take a two-month shift。
From late june, the children of the kindergarten class entered the graduation season, and every day until the afternoon when parents pick up their children, there is often a large number of training school staff who recommend junior shifts to parents. Journalists learned from a number of training schools that many classes were already full and were beginning to attend。
The training school says it's hot
While the majority of junior shift is run for six to eight weeks, tuition fees cost many parents. Yesterday, journalists telephoned a training school at yanji road, where staff indicated that their summer school was mainly for children who had left kindergarten and were due to attend primary school in september. The eight-week class had begun on 30 june and the seven-week class had begun on 7 july, at a cost of $4480 and $3980, respectively。
Journalists contacted a training school in changshan to learn that their six classes were full for the summer school, with tuition fees of more than 4,800. In addition to summer classes, they have one year of full-year classes, mainly for kindergarten classes and for under-age children who need to return to kindergarten. All their teachers have a primary school teacher's certificate and tuition fees are higher at around $32,000 a year. Journalists contacted other training schools to learn that school fees for the entire year ranged from $20,000 to $30,000。
Early primary school curriculum
What does a child learn at such a high rate of tuition at a young link? Several training schools interviewed by journalists have emphasized that they are mainly designed to prepare their children for primary school life, learn to listen carefully in classes, raise their hands and answer questions and learning habits such as writing, writing, etc., and are not primarily knowledge-based. However, when journalists were given the curricula for these junior courses, it was found that morning courses were mainly spelling, mathematics, reading, english and literacy, and that it was only in the afternoon that some extracurricular activities and interest courses took place. The staff of the yanjiro training school indicated that they were using their own teaching materials from 8 a. M. To 4 p. M. From monday to friday, but in parallel with those of the first grade of primary school. In contrast, the staff of yanjima road training school stressed that they spoke about the first half of the first grade and that, unlike primary classes, they spoke slowly and would strengthen the basis of their children。
What is the practical effect of a child's two-month junior shift? In the face of journalists ' problems, none of the training school staff responded positively. “at the first day of school, the teacher could tell. The children who were in the junior shift were more confident, and many of our former students were class cadres. "staff says。
Some people think it's necessary
“from kindergarten to primary school is a turning point in a child's life, and it is time for parents to help the child so that they can walk a little more smoothly.” ms. Sun, who had just paid nearly $5,000 in tuition and had sent her daughter to the junior middle class, said that she had listened to her teacher at the school and had finally decided to do so. She was planning to take her children to her grandmother's house in qin this weekend, and now she's going on a study tour. The teacher at the training school told her that it was already a good way to go to junior high school. They counted one primary school in the northern part of the city, with more than 40 students in the class, and only five who had not attended the junior secondary school. Although ms. Sun felt that it was not necessary to allow her daughter to attend school two months earlier, she noted that many of the children enrolled in kindergarten and that she had named them。
“we took part in a parent-child event organized by the training school the previous two days, and we saw children who were also 6 years old, and the students selected for the training school were able to talk to foreign teachers in english, carry hundreds of poems, and count with care, as if the children of our family had been compared.” another student, mr. Wang, claimed that his children attended public kindergartens, that their teachers taught them little, and that children in private kindergartens seemed to learn a lot earlier. He feared that once his son went to primary school, he would soon be born, which would make the children feel less confident, and that, although the tuition fees at the training schools were somewhat prohibitive, he would still bite his teeth。
There are also many parents who don’t pay for this runaway small-link. “with these 4,000 dollars, i would rather take my children on a trip and open my eyes, and i believe that my children are able to adapt to their primary school life without having to spend their money on specialized training.” according to mr. Deng。
120 kids, 22 people
Do you really have so many kids to enroll in juniors? The journalist interviewed chen, who was the director of pikachu kindergarten in the island city, and told the journalist that they had 120 large-class children who had graduated, but only 22 were attending the junior-school relay, most of whom were parents who did not pay. According to chen, during the last two months of pre-school education, the content of the minor connections has begun to permeate the day-to-day learning life. The kindergarten teachers organize children to visit primary schools and listen to the primary school teachers in public classes. They also change each class from 25 minutes of kindergarten to 40 minutes of primary school, teach children to prepare their own school bags, bookkeeping, home writing, etc., and develop their children's discipline and learning habits. However, they do not teach early primary school curricula to ensure their children's interest in learning, and are concerned that kindergarten teachers are not in contact with primary school teachers, and that the first grade is the basic stage of the child's education. Once the child has been taught wrong, this error may haunt the child's life and make it difficult to correct it。
A two-month run might not help
“it is clear from the enrolment of our first graders each year that fewer and fewer students are attending the junior step-by-step classes, and i and some first grade teachers have discussed the matter and have found that the advantage of early step-by-step pupils is not obvious.” the director of the elementary school in deutsche road told journalists that for children who had just been enrolled in school, teachers had been taught on a zero basis, and children who had been in junior shifts had first been enrolled in school for a month or two, since early literacy would have certain advantages, mainly in the examination, children who had not been able to read earlier would have to explain the subject, and children who could read the subject themselves, but at most for two to three months, that advantage would have been evened by other students, even if some children had gone to school earlier and did not listen. Moreover, some of the teachers in the training schools were not professional, for example, there had been cases where physical education teachers had taught children to spell and read, because the children were wrong because of the irregularities in their pronunciation。
“primary education is the starting point, which is not simple, and no one can teach it. Every year, the education department organizes training for teachers in the first grade of primary school in order to enable teachers to teach their children the correct pronunciation, which is very difficult to correct when it occurs.” according to director wang, there are also schools where children are trained to learn how to calculate, which is completely different from primary education and very difficult to correct. According to wang director, regular kindergartens provide some small-school bridging education for children in large classes, and parents do not need to study for the children in additional classes。
