Has anyone noticed that the tone of the conversation has changed recently at a family meeting? The three words on the table used to say, "who's kids got a score?" "who's kids got a grade, which remedial class?" and now you're more concerned, "well, i hear you'll be better in high school." or, "did your school hours really last 15 minutes?"
In the meantime, i have also been following the signals that will be released and the “fifty-five” plan that just came out. To be honest, i've seen this year's series of educational innovations, but i've got it in my heart. Days like the roller coaster that stay up with the kids all night and get anxious about going to school to sleep might be over。
In connection with the policy of march and the new semester, we're talking to everyone todayK12 educationThere are probably three new changes to the rate. Whether you're a young parent with a child in primary school or a middle-aged parent who's about to have a middle-school or a high-school child, it's worth reading。
Change one: from "thousands of armies across the bridge" to "multi avenues to rome," the doors of high school are getting bigger
In the past, children were taught to “do not lose on the starting line” and the examination became the first “divine watershed”. I wonder if you've done any of these videos: children lose their arms in ordinary high schools, parents cry and children cry, and the pain of tearing their lungs apart from the screen. This anxiety will be greatly alleviated in the future。
The underlying reason behind this is a particularly simple but compelling reality: the number of children has changed. Like the river at our village's entrance, there's a lot of water coming up, and you've got to widen the channel; it's over, the flow's slow and the course has to be adjusted。
The number of pupils enrolled in primary schools is projected to have peaked in 2023 and the lower secondary level is expected to peak in 2026. What does that mean? This means that the degree pressure is gradually moving from the compulsory to the upper secondary level. The state has clearly seen this trend。
In this year's report on the work of the government, a change in the keyword is of particular concern: from “expanding the supply of high school degrees” in 2025 to a clear emphasis in 2026 — “increasing the supply of general high school degrees”. Let's not lose the word “stage” and remove the word “secondary vocational education” and focus on “general high school”, which has changed in strength and direction。
It's like we're going to the market. I used to tell you to prepare more food, and now just say, "more thin meat," because that's what big guys need most。
The first major change in education in 2026 was the establishment of a “high-level expansion”. Over the next few years, the county general high school revitalization programme will be implemented in all parts of the country, and even the construction of integrated high schools and science high schools will be promoted. Researchers at the chinese institute of education and science have said that this is a direct response to the family anxiety caused by the “middle examination” stream。
So, if you're with the kids for the first grade, the middle grade, the anxiety, the 2026, it's really gonna take a little while. The state is opening up the upper secondary schools to more children to general upper secondary education。
Change two: the policy winds have changed, from learning to learning to learn to be dead, to being healthy first, and the government has started to “insure” the child's body
Friends who watch the news carefully may have noticed that this year there is a subversive tone for schools。
During the previous period, a “devil table” had been circulated on the internet at one of gansu's high schools, beginning at 5. 35 a. M., leaving school at 11. 20 p. M. And adding three meals a day for only 80 minutes. This watch has a cool back, and the internet calls it a robotic birth that brings the child to 996 or even 007. Although the local education authorities have quickly come out to explain the lack of implementation, this “hawk” type of educational thinking is indeed deeply rooted。
But now the wind has changed completely. In 2026, the ministry of education explicitly set out to carry out further programmes for the physical fitness of students, with a view to promoting “two hours per day of integrated physical activity”, “15 minutes per day” and “one section per day of physical education in compulsory schools”. Even pac members suggested that “one half hour in the first half of the third grade of primary school and 20 minutes in the second half of the second cycle of high school”。
I have to explain this to people because it's all about the health of our children。
It's more expensive than you buying an expensive sports car, you know how to hit the gas, you don't keep up, you don't change the oil, you don't even let go of the brakes to catch the road. Sooner or later, the engine's going to die。
In education, the state now realizes that if you keep staring at the score, the child has serious physical and psychological problems. So the government started to end up as a “pastman” and forced the children to “maintenance time”. The minister of education has made it clear that crowding out of physical education classes, preventing students from leaving the classroom, etc。
What does this have to do with us all? Two points:
The other kids were in the classroom. Now that the state has made it necessary to play, everyone is standing on the same line, and you don't have to worry about the children being “playing wild”. As zhang xiaoping did not try to comment, create a "tide school" to set up flexible spaces. Returning children to their childhood: intercurricular care is no longer a "concentration" and children are able to stretch their stiff bodies in their running and release the pressure from the classroom in their laughs. As has been commented, “walking is learning”, the free space provided in the classroom allows education to return to the nature of “five-child”。
Change three: from "crazy underground" to "sunshine regulation", you're looking for "reasonable consumption."
If the first two changes are “up to school” and “body”, the third is about the money bag and the education concept of our people。
In the past few years, while the “dual decrease” has reduced the number of training institutions in disciplines, underground education has rebounded in the name of “high-end domestic workers”, “hometeachers”, etc., at a high price, and quality is not guaranteed。
But it is not the same now, and the two delegates in 2026 referred to the concept of “expanding the efficient supply of education and promoting rational consumption of education”。
What do you mean "rational consumption"? The official recommendations are to promote quality development and the consumption of education in the form of interest development, and to guide parents in abandoning the problem areas that are subject to trial correction。
Here i think of a life trick: we usually buy things that are not necessarily right, and that's the best. This is also the case for the children's newspapers, which are not the ones who are going to be in charge, and the ones who are going to be in charge。
It was suggested that a positive list of educational services be established, that non-disciplinary training be encouraged and that quality institutions be supported to participate in after-school services in schools. At the same time, a “black-and-white list” mechanism is to be set up in order to allow good currency to be expelled。
Parents can then choose classes for their children and simply watch advertising. What you're looking at is whether or not the institution is qualified. Are there any standards in the curriculum? Is the charge transparent
The direct effect of this change is that it's getting harder and harder to get involved with institutions that still teach on trafficking anxiety and super-precedentsQuality educationEnterprises that focus on the physical and mental well-being of their children will slowly win a reputation. For our parents, even if they want to provide supplementary education for their children, future choices will be more transparent and standardized, and even for special families, it will be possible to obtain government subsidies through the “education voucher” system。
This change is, in fact, akin to the north-south differences in our lives. The northerners envy the fineness of education in the south, and the southerners envy the cold-resistant children of the north. Subsequent education, perhaps at the beginning of the design, takes into account the physical and mental well-being of the child, as well as the development of the personality, so that every child can find the pace of his or her own growth。
At the end of the day, 2026 education, like we live, fades away, returns to the nature of cherries。
In the past, the children had been taught so that they could go to a good university, face their relatives, raise their heads at parents' meetings. Now, both policy adjustments and demographic changes are telling us that education is about to return to “people”。
The “myth” of “during time” and “filling duck” in exchange for points has become difficult to repeat in this era of greatness。
For our ordinary people, my advice is:
If you're a parent, you're a child: you're able to take care of your child's physical and mental well-being and run with the sun. Remember the new term of the ministry of education in 2026, “health first”。
If you have a high school student in your family, you'll have to relax, you'll have to build up pogo, you'll have to rejuvenate the county, and you'll have more and more good schools at home。
Finally, i'd like to ask you: can your kids' school really go out? In 2026, will you call the kids for an interest class? Welcome to the comment section. Let's talk。
