Commenting On "Student Suspension And Suspension Of School" Should Consider Family Conditions Of Students.

Chen Yongjie (Associate Professor of Zhongshan University)

According to the needs of national anti epidemic planning, taking into account the risk of students gathered from primary and secondary schools, the educational departments across the country have announced that they will further delay the opening hours of primary and secondary schools. At the same time, they also propose alternative measures to "suspend classes and not stop learning". Many primary and secondary schools begin to teach online classes for primary and secondary students in the form of "online classroom" and "cloud classroom".

In the past few days, you can see many video related videos on micro-blog, WeChat group or friends circle. There are many attentive teachers who are racking their brains to bring knowledge and joy to students who stay at home. But at the same time, we can see that some families are in distress and do not have the right equipment to make their children feel at ease in class, or they are faced with a large number of emerging business courses, and they do not know how to choose.

Chen Yongjie, associate professor of Zhongshan University. Data map

It is easy to see that there are two problems worthy of social attention: the difference between hardware and business online.

The first is the information shortage caused by the difference of hardware devices. There is no difference in the degree of ownership and possession of each family's computer equipment. The middle and high income families in developed areas have no difficulty in taking two computers plus a flat panel to match the wireless speakers. At present, there is another group because of all kinds of sudden traffic reasons. If there is no thorough understanding of the hardware of students' families, they can directly access the Internet.

The second is the economic pressure brought to the working families by business online courses. Despite the delay in the opening of the education sector, even though the education department has asked for no rush in the online courses, there is a consensus in the society that the learning time can not be wasted, so that children should learn something at home. In view of this, a number of extracurricular tutorial institutions that are currently unable to get into schools have poured into the field of business networking to catch business opportunities. As a result, previously only the middle and high-income families will be able to consume the business online courses. Now many wage earners are also forced to "fight". Whether this will bring certain burden to these families needs to be observed.

From the perspective of social policy, these two issues deserve attention and can be replaced by alternative measures. The first thing to say about hardware is the need for people at the bottom of the table to receive information that is more popular than the Internet. In the perspective of modern education history, the "predecessor" of the online course is actually educational television, which is mainly interactive and selective in technology. Taking into account the regional differences and family differences of different income families, in fact, the primary and secondary school network courses in some areas should consider the function of educational TV. In terms of popularity, televisions are much better than computers and other intelligent devices in less developed areas, and most of the national, provincial, city, county and even town level have broadcast channels with analog signals. They can also broadcast teaching films and documentaries suitable for students of different grades and different regions. To enable students in less developed areas to take the course of famous teachers together with students in developed areas by means of audio-visual equipment, television can be regarded as a means. Now may be a good time too. Of course, the core of this is the planning and coordination of education departments.

As for the commercial network course, since it is provided online, since the education department has made it clear that it is necessary to ensure "zero starting point" in the spring term, the relevant restrictions can not only restrict the online classroom of public schools, but should also be applied to business online courses. Local governments should increase the supply of educational TV programs for public television so as to effectively alleviate the pressure of paid families to pay for commercial online courses. Some business tutorial institutions should also be self disciplined.

Yes, the market economy has its own rules, and there will be supply if demand is there. For the majority of families, I think it might be better to think about this: the social atmosphere under the epidemic situation is an excellent classroom for primary and secondary school students. Parents may wish to calm down and plan how to use this case to guide their children to develop good personal hygiene habits and to understand various social norms.

The delay in the opening of the school is really helpless, but how many students will encounter the opening of the school at the school stage? We can never cultivate more honest and virtuous generation for us if we guide properly.