Front-line teachers: The restoration of repeat students in primary and secondary schools may be better for students
Does our country not have a grade-repeat system? The answer is yes. Since the 1980s, that is, since the introduction of compulsory education, the repetition system has been basically abolished in primary and secondary schools. Because the nine-year compulsory education is aimed at all students and must be completed within nine years, in order to cooperate with the promotion of compulsory education, the state took the initiative to abolish the original repetition system, and students only need to go to school year by year. That's it.
Under the previous system of repeating grades, students whose learning ability did not meet the standard and their academic ability was not enough to enter the upper grades would be left to continue their studies for one year. The remaining students, most of them after a year of study, can improve their grades. After entering the senior grades, I can keep up with the progress of my studies. I won't be able to keep up with each step, and I will not be able to keep up step by step. I have been behind since the first grade.
The progress of the students is both before and after
For the majority of front-line teachers, the most profound feeling for students is that some students wake up earlier, so they work very early, while some students wake up later, so they spend more time in the lower grades. playing. There are differences in students' learning ability at this time. Some students may be able to take the double 100 exam at the end of the term, while some students can't get 100% in the two exams combined. Such a big gap requires the same level of education. Undoubtedly unreasonable.
For students, five to ten years old is a stage of rapid development. At this time, "you are not afraid of not knowing the goods, but you are afraid of comparing goods." The differences between students are very large, and the learning progress of students is completely different. In the 1990s, students were kept in grades because of their poor learning ability. After the second year of study, they could improve their grades to a large extent, and even reach a level close to the middle class.
After the abolition of the repeat system, more and more students stabilized at 30
Our country is vast and rich in resources, so the gap between schools is also huge. The author once went to the countryside to support rural education. It was found that in the vast rural primary and secondary schools, a large number of students, because they did not know how to study in the first grade, could only take 30 or 40 points in the exam. In the second grade, I still don’t know how to study, and I can only take the test of 30 to 40 points... I have been promoted in this way, and I have stabilized from 30 to 40 points to the sixth grade. I finally want to study. If you don't study hard, you have no foundation at all, and you can only give up in the end.
One step behind and one step behind, after entering junior high school, I could not study and soon dropped out. Education is supposed to allow students to develop, but such a practice of "catching the ducks on the shelves" is not conducive to the development of students at all. In the past, we thought that all students had similar learning ability, but in the eyes of front-line teachers, this kind of education does not leave a little room for students. Even though students’ learning ability is not up to par, they still have to go to a higher grade to mess around.
It is more correct to upgrade after reaching the standard
What is an excellent education? Excellent education is to give outstanding children a broad world, and to give backward children a chance to breathe. In the past, many parents felt that it was shameful for their children to repeat grades, but as a teacher, what I want to say is that too many children have accumulated a lot of money. Children study for their own future, not for the parents' face, and repeating grades is only to learn better in the future, so that they can catch up. This is the real purpose of education.
Our current pressure is all positive transmission, and there is a difficulty ahead, the high school entrance examination and the college entrance examination, which belong to the pressure of the future. This approach has a disadvantage, that is, it cannot make students intuitively feel that people are lazy, and future pressure cannot wake up a person who is "pretending to be asleep". What we lack is the pressure behind, and the pressure only starts from one end. Conduction is likely to push the child back. Only when there is pressure before and after can students move forward more quickly.
Students have different learning abilities, and our education should be more inclusive. We have done a good job of hierarchical educational design, and we cannot let such a design become a decoration. Entering a higher grade after reaching the standard may be a better choice for the child. There must be room for everything, and what is needed for the child is greater tolerance.