108 members proposed that physical education should be included in the compulsory subjects of ＂senior high school entrance examination and college entrance examination＂

Introduction:

A few days ago, Wu Zhiming, a member of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, led the submission of a proposal to reduce the burden on primary and secondary school students, suggesting that the national education evaluation system should be reorganized, physical education should be included in the compulsory subjects of the college entrance examination, and the main subjects such as Chinese and mathematics should be given the same test scores, so as to stimulate the endogenous motivation of schools, parents and students and truly realize the relaxation of the burden on primary and secondary school students.

This year’s two sessions, led by Wu Zhiming, member of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and chairman of Fujian Provincial Committee of Democratic National Construction Association, and signed by 108 members of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, submitted the Proposal on Implementing the Education Concept of Health First and Relieving the Burden for Primary and Secondary School Students. It is suggested that the national education evaluation system should be re-formulated, physical education should be included in the compulsory subjects of the college entrance examination, and the main subjects such as Chinese and mathematics should be given the same test scores, so as to stimulate the endogenous motivation of schools, parents and students and truly realize the relaxation and burden reduction for primary and secondary school students.

As soon as the news came out, it immediately attracted the attention of netizens. In just a few hours, Weibo forwarded 16,000 times and left more than 60,000 messages, which rushed to the hot search list in Weibo.

Some netizens think that physical education can be tested in the senior high school entrance examination, but forget the college entrance examination. Some netizens said that this is to increase the burden on children in disguise.

What do you think about this?

Proposal content:

Thirty-six years ago, the appeal letter of "loosening" decentralization jointly signed by 55 business leaders in Fujian blew the horn of state-owned enterprise reform. Since then, enterprises have gradually got rid of the "bondage" and embarked on the road of reform and development of decentralization, invigorating and self-management.

On the eve of the two sessions of the National People’s Congress this year, Wu Zhiming, member of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and chairman of Fujian Provincial Committee of Democratic National Construction Association, and 108 members of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference jointly submitted the Proposal on Implementing the Education Concept of Health First and Relieving the Burden for Primary and Secondary School Students.

In order to ensure that the contents of the proposal objectively reflect the wishes of schools, students and parents, since the beginning of April, Wu Zhiming has conducted in-depth research in Fuzhou, Ningde, Pingtan and other places, listened to the opinions and suggestions of experts and scholars in education, front-line teachers, students and parents, and constantly deepened the argumentation and polishing, and the draft was constantly revised and improved. Once the proposal was put forward, it was quickly echoed by many members of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, who jointly called for the healthy growth of children.

Wu Zhiming continues to pay attention to the physical fitness of primary and secondary school students. He said, "The burden has been reduced for more than 20 years, but the schoolbags of primary and secondary school students are getting heavier and heavier, and the sleep time is getting less and less. The physical fitness of primary and secondary school students is declining, and the incidence of myopia and obesity remains high. " He said that over the years, although the state and local governments have successively introduced a series of policies to reduce the burden on education, in fact, the burden on children is still "getting heavier and heavier".

Wu Zhiming pointed out that the main problems in today’s education are:

First, the concept of education is still outdated. The current evaluation system of basic education still has the stubborn disease of "only scoring, only ranking, only entering a higher school and only diploma", and it has become a widespread consensus that "we can’t lose at the starting line". It is a common phenomenon that we attach importance to intellectual education and neglect physical education, and it is a disguised phenomenon to crowd out technical classes such as physical education, which seriously ignores the all-round development of students’ morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor.

Second, the burden reduction policy is difficult to land. Due to the single evaluation index of the school, the school takes the test results as the baton, and in response to various evaluation rankings, it unilaterally pursues high scores, admission rates of prestigious schools and enrollment rates. Parents are also keen to seek all kinds of training outside the school, and buy a lot of teaching materials for students. Every day, Wenshan asks questions about the sea, and students are overwhelmed.

Third, the number of textbooks has increased. Taking a city in the south as an example, in 2009, the total number of textbooks used by primary and secondary school students in compulsory education was 212, which increased to 253 in 2019, with a total increase of 41, with an increase of 16.54%; Knowledge points in some disciplines move forward, making learning more difficult. According to statistics, primary and secondary school students in China do homework for more than 3 hours on average every day, which is twice the global average, and the academic pressure is heavy.

Fourth, physical education subjects are not paid enough attention. Physical education teachers’ structural lack of editing and teaching ability reduces the quality of physical education, and the lack of school sports safety guarantee system and venue equipment restricts the all-round development of school sports. The requirement of the Ministry of Education to "exercise for one hour every day" is in name only.

"In fact, reducing the burden on campus is only an ideal state. In fact, the burden on students in school is increasing." In an interview with China Youth Daily, Wu Zhiming said.

As a result, many students in China have "endless homework". These homework not only have a lot of repeated exercises, but also some problems that don’t exist in real life. "For example, how can you fill the pool with water while discharging water? What a waste of water!" Wu Zhiming said, "In the past May Day holiday, the daughter of a member of the Democratic National Construction Association, who is still in primary school, had to complete as many as 101 pages of school homework. The family holiday was spent in’ doing homework’ and’ accompanying homework’."

"Let the children move is the first."

The physical and mental health of teenagers is related to the future of the country and the nation, so it is urgent to loosen the burden on primary and secondary school students! To this end, Wu Zhiming made the following five suggestions:

First, change the concept of social education. The whole society should change and update the diverse understanding of children’s success. Failure to enter the university does not mean failure to become a talent, with 360 lines, and the number one scholar in each line. It is necessary to reverse the tendency of recruiting personnel from all walks of life to focus only on famous universities and diplomas, and attach importance to examining the comprehensive quality of job seekers, including physical fitness, so as to achieve meritocracy. It is necessary to strengthen social propaganda and guidance to parents, put children’s physical and mental health first, and respect the law of education and the freedom of children’s growth.

Second, establish a multi-evaluation system. It is necessary to use the educational concept of health first, reorganize and formulate the national education evaluation system, improve the assessment and incentive methods for schools and teachers, and strictly prohibit giving schools entrance examination indicators or simply evaluating and rewarding schools and teachers by the enrollment rate; Pay attention to improving the quality of vocational education, provide more access and development space for students who fail to enter high school and enter universities, and change the situation of one exam for life.

Third, truly realize quality education. It is necessary to effectively change the concept of education, reform teaching management, use a large number of professional cadres, and let those who love and understand education take charge of education. As an important force to promote the work of reducing the burden, teachers can only reduce the burden by constantly improving their teaching level and comprehensive quality. It is necessary to streamline the content of teaching materials, prevent knowledge points from moving forward, reduce repetitive and invalid assignments, prohibit over-class teaching, and strengthen the management of social training institutions. It is necessary to reduce burdens and increase efficiency, improve learning efficiency, and attach importance to the cultivation of students’ comprehensive ability in social practice.

Fourth, comprehensively improve the weight of sports.

First, explore the implementation of the process evaluation of physical education test, include physical education subjects in the scope of the college entrance examination, and design the same scores as those of Chinese, mathematics and other major subjects to stimulate the endogenous motivation of students, parents and schools, and actively increase physical exercise time and teachers’ investment.

The second is to ensure that a reasonable proportion of public funds in primary and secondary schools is used for sports expenditure, and to improve school sports venues and facilities.

The third is to encourage sports professionals to take part-time jobs in schools to carry out physical education teaching, so as to promote the development of campus sports activities.

Wu Zhiming believes that sports should be included in the compulsory subjects of the college entrance examination and given the same test scores as Chinese and mathematics. "Only in this way can the endogenous motivation of schools, parents and students be stimulated and all problems be solved."

China Youth Daily said that in fact, many related attempts have been made in various places in recent years. At the end of last year, Yunnan Province issued a new reform policy for the senior high school entrance examination, which ranked physical education with Chinese, mathematics and English as 100 points. Many physical education teachers say that parents pay attention to the school, children move, and teachers don’t have to be "sick".

Some people have also raised objections to similar practices, thinking that this is actually a kind of "exam-oriented thinking." However, today, when there is still a big market for the concept of taking the exam and the exam still has the role of "baton", this is also a circuitous way, as an education administrator said:

No matter what method is used, it is the first priority to let the children move.

Original title: "108 members proposed to include physical education as a compulsory subject in the senior high school entrance examination and college entrance examination"

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