Children at the beginning of junior high school face hellish summer vacation： it is difficult to take the placement test from early to late.

　　"Mom, I am embarrassed, and I have not learned anything on the test paper!" Although it has been half a month, Li Yueer still clearly remembers the feeling of being hurt after taking the "junior high school" exam.

　　Li Yueer lives in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, and this year, she was promoted to junior high school. Not long ago, she took the entrance examination of a private school. The questions in the examination paper, such as "Museum Package" and "Little Fish and Hua Wuque", were all knowledge that Li Yueer had never seen before.

　　Li Yueer took this exam, and later many parents sent it to Weibo and friends’ circle, questioning whether this kind of test paper, which even parents were at a loss, was "difficult" for children.

　　In fact, the children who are "difficult" are not only in Zhengzhou, but also such an exam.

　　When many children and parents finally got through the entanglement and suffering at the beginning of junior high school, thinking that they could take advantage of the summer vacation to relax, they ushered in a "fake summer vacation" because it was a busier summer vacation than going to school.

　　"We left school on June 20, and after going out for a week, we ushered in remedial training until August 20, starting from 9: 00 am to 8: 00 pm every day." Ms. Lu, a parent of a junior high school child in Jiangsu Province, said, "In order to keep up with the child’s physical strength, I signed up a swimming class for the child, and I can exercise for one or two hours in the morning. In this way, the child goes out at 6 o’clock in the morning every day, and it is already 8 o’clock in the evening when it is over, and there is no chance to breathe. This is a typical hellish summer vacation in our local area. "

　　It is difficult for the first grade students to reach the third grade. Primary school graduates learn from early to late.

　　In fact, many parents are similar to Ms. Lu. They had a lot of expectations for this summer vacation, but suddenly they found that many children around them were nervously preparing for the exam.

　　For example, Ms. Sun in Beijing.

　　At the end of June, Ms. Sun took her son to North Africa and started a long-awaited graduation tour. However, just one week later, I ended my trip ahead of schedule. "The middle school informed me of the registration time and said nothing, but it is obviously necessary to take an exam to let the children bring stationery. Other children have already started preparing, so we can only go back ‘ Prepare for war ’ 。” Ms. Sun said.

　　The exam mentioned by Ms. Sun is a placement exam for new junior one students in some middle schools. After passing the exam, students with good grades will be assigned to the "experimental class" and children with average grades will enter the "ordinary class". "Everyone said that the teachers and lectures in the experimental class are different from those in the ordinary class." Ms. Sun said.

　　Dazhuang of Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, is also a member of the "Xiaoshengchu" army this year, and he is constantly tossing and turning in exams and training classes: he finished the final exam of primary school on June 26th, entered the training class for training from June 27th to July 9th, and attended the summer camp organized by junior high school who applied for the exam from July 10th to 15th, and completed the placement exam in the summer camp.

　　Zhang Xia, Da Zhuang’s mother, said that if she can be admitted to the "sharp knife class", not only the content of her study may be different from other classes, but she can also be exempted from all tuition fees (the middle school that Da Zhuang is about to enter is a private school). "Most of the students in the placement test have studied junior high school knowledge in advance ‘ Niu Wa ’ , this is ‘ Sharp knife class ’ The target object of. " Ms. Zhang said.

　　More and more children are preparing for the placement test, and the difficulty of the placement test is gradually increasing. Every class in Dazhuang’s training class will prepare a set of "placement test papers" for children in previous years. "A set of English questions that Da Zhuang has brushed is particularly difficult. According to the teacher, it has reached ‘ The third grade is easy to make mistakes ’ The difficulty. " Zhang Xia said, "A friend of mine who teaches English said that after brushing that set of questions, the senior high school entrance examination will be almost the same."

　　Although the education administration department has repeatedly stressed that schools in the compulsory education stage cannot set up key classes, characteristic classes and experimental classes at different levels in any name, the situation of school class division is still widespread. If placement is not allowed, placement tests are naturally not allowed. Therefore, although the placement test exists, it is quite mysterious: the word "placement test" will not appear in the notice of the school, and the children in Xiaoshengchu will not be informed of the placement test in advance. Therefore, many children can only prepare aimlessly, and the training class has been reported one after another.

　　Li Jia, a primary school graduate in Beijing, took a leave from school after mid-June to prepare for the placement exam. Parents first enrolled him in a 10-day Olympics class, then enrolled him in a "placement test" training class for three subjects other than languages in an institution, and at the same time enrolled him in a language improvement class in another institution that is good at languages. In this way, Li Jia’s first class every day is 9: 30 in the morning, and the last class is 8: 30 in the evening.

　　"Please come quickly for the placement test, or I will hang up." Li Jia, who has persisted for a long time, pours bitter water in the classmates of primary school every day.

　　What is the gap between primary school and junior high school, from happiness to exam-oriented primary school and junior high school?

　　"In addition to the placement test, we also signed up for the first class of the first grade," Zhang Xia said. "This is not as hard as the placement test. There are three subjects outside the language, one afternoon a day."

　　Indeed, many junior high school children’s summer vacations are not all occupied by placement exams, and many children will use their summer vacations to study the first grade courses in advance.

　　Why do we have to study in advance?

　　"There is no pressure for children to study in primary school, there is no entrance examination, and the school usually has no ranking in the exam. Every child thinks that he has learned very well. When he is under the pressure of the senior high school entrance examination in junior high school, it is definitely not possible for children not to adapt in advance." Mr. Wang, a parent in Beijing, said.

　　Mr. Wang’s words were confirmed by a first-year class teacher.

　　Teacher Song graduated from graduate school three years ago and served as the head teacher of the first grade in a middle school in Beijing. "I didn’t do anything else this year. I just taught students to get used to it. Many students can’t even remember their homework. Some students often don’t do their homework. Going out for dinner with their parents can be a reason not to do their homework." Teacher Song said.

　　The dispute between exam-oriented education and quality education has a long history in the education field. After years of reform, the concept of quality education has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but many "experienced people" have said, "In fact, quality education only exists in primary schools."

　　"My son hardly attended extracurricular classes in primary school, but I regretted it from the day I went to middle school." Mr. Qian Sheng from Jiangsu said. Mr. Qian’s undergraduate, master’s and doctoral majors are all related to pedagogy and psychology, and he has always adhered to the concept of quality education. The whole primary school stage allows children to spend in a relaxed and happy atmosphere. "But since I entered junior high school, the senior high school entrance examination seems to be in front of me. It is more difficult for us to take the senior high school entrance examination than to take the university entrance examination. The elimination rate of the senior high school entrance examination is very high. It is no exaggeration to say that the pressure is really coming like a mountain." As a result, from the first day of junior high school, Qian Sheng reported his son to three subjects outside the language number plus extracurricular tutoring in physics, and each lesson was "one-on-one". Children spend all their time studying, parents’ money bags are shrinking rapidly, and the family is under great pressure. In primary school, the atmosphere of "mother’s kindness and filial piety" at home is completely gone, and quarrels often break out with each other because of a little thing. "If I had known that the pressure of taking the exam was so overwhelming, I would never let my son’s primary school always be silly and happy. I should spread the pressure." Qian Sheng said.

　　In the eyes of many parents, it seems that there is not just a summer vacation but a gap between primary school and junior high school. "Some children around us have only nine days left in the whole summer vacation under strong pressure, and the happy study and quality education in primary schools have disappeared." Zhang Xia said.

　　Parents in China have never been careless about their children’s study. When they find the gap between primary school and junior high school, they will try to fill it.

　　Zhang Xia introduced that their parents who applied for the same school built a WeChat group of "Xiaoshengchu Summer Camp". After the release of the senior high school entrance examination, the parents in the group turned into "Sherlock Holmes" one after another, and inferred the school ranking of this year’s senior high school entrance examination according to the number of students who got 600 points in each school. Parents should be "aware" of all junior high schools in Shijiazhuang. On weekdays, what parents discuss most in the group is the purchase method of the second volume of biology, history and geography textbooks for the first grade. "I have borrowed everything I can, and I have to buy what I haven’t borrowed." Zhang Xia said.

　　Difficult problems will make mistakes in simple problems. "Mechanical brushing problems" have sequelae.

　　The anxiety at the beginning of Xiaoshengchu will inevitably be transmitted downwards.

　　The son of Zhejiang parent Wang Jialin is about to enter the sixth grade in September this year. Two days ago, she just went to the school to hold a parent-teacher meeting. "The school invited the English teacher of a well-known private school in Hangzhou to teach junior high school. To put it bluntly, it is to tell parents how primary schools prepare for the senior high school entrance examination. " Wang Jialin said, "It is completely score-oriented, aiming at the senior high school entrance examination. After three years, children with spirituality will be squashed."

　　Although Wang Jialin disapproves of this behavior of learning in advance, the pressure is still coming: "Everyone else is preparing, and we will definitely suffer if we are not prepared at all!"

　　Indeed, someone has already suffered.

　　Mr. Fu, a parent in Beijing, spoke out that he wanted to choose a famous middle school in Haidian District at the beginning of this year. As a result, because his child did not get the results of the Olympic Cup during his primary school, he did not even get the chance to take the exam.

　　This "bloody" example is bound to be "widely celebrated", so more and more children enter the army prepared in advance.

　　However, this kind of learning in advance and crazy brushing questions brings opportunities to children, but it also hurts children silently.

　　Mr. Wei, who runs a remedial class in Gansu, introduced their teaching method of "learning in advance": for example, for the first grade mathematics, first sort out all the key and difficult points in primary school, and then help students preview the knowledge of junior high school by teaching. "We don’t tell students the knowledge points thoroughly, but only give them the difficulty of popularizing junior high school. If it makes sense, students will appear after junior high school ‘ Don’t listen ’ The situation, disrupting the rhythm of normal classes. "

　　I don’t know whether the situation mentioned by Mr. Wei is representative enough, but the pattern of "not focusing on the process but only on the results, and letting students memorize the steps to solve problems" is indeed very common in training courses.

　　And the sequela of this mechanical problem-brushing mode has already appeared on students.

　　Ms. Li, a parent of a third-grade elementary school student in Beijing, introduced that the teacher had a math problem during the final review: Xiaoming walked two kilometers from home to school. After walking one kilometer, he found that he had forgotten something and went home to get it. Then he went to school and asked Xiaoming how many kilometers he had walked.

　　"This kind of question has been mentioned by the teacher before, but it has been changed slightly. 80% of the class have made mistakes. Many children are learning the Olympics outside. Will the problem be done and the simple question will not be done?" Ms. Li said.

　　For example, this question: the relationship between different pitches in bone flute is very close to the famous three-point profit and loss law in the Spring and Autumn Period of China. According to the relevant steps given, how many times is the frequency of "feather" introduced than that of "palace"?

　　An expert who asked not to be named said that this examination mode is the development direction, and it is no longer the original simple topic of transferring textbook knowledge to test papers.

　　"With the brush-based teaching, we can get off work at 8 o’clock in the evening, but if we want to cultivate students’ awareness of solving problems, we may have to get off work at 10 o’clock." Mr. Wei said that some people with educational ideals are still willing to cultivate their children in the second way, but the current educational ecology seems to have left people who are deeply involved in it too busy to discuss the right and wrong educational methods. As Zhang Xia said, "I know that there are problems in the educational environment around me, but I can only be carried forward by the wave of various training courses." Because the high threshold of the school, coupled with the panic of parents, has become a "burden" that students can’t unload. If you don’t continue, you will be left behind. Even if it may be backward in a short time, which parent can willingly watch their children fall behind?

　　(The students in the text are all pseudonyms)

　　China Youth Daily Zhongqing Online Reporter Fan Weichen Intern Xu Huai Source: China Youth Daily