A few days ago, Beijing again issued a ban on cleaning up the Olympic Games, once again occupying a prominent position in major portals. In fact, as early as 2001, the Ministry of Education issued a ban, stipulating that the results of "Olympic Games" should not be linked to enrollment; In November 2010, the Ministry of Education made it clear that starting from 2014, the Olympic College Entrance Examination will be cancelled.
However, the reporter’s investigation found that the Olympic Games has been stopped for 11 years, but this "high-speed train" has never stopped, and the Olympic Games training is still hot. Why is the Olympic Games training not cooling down? How can we make the Olympic Games no longer simply become a "stepping stone" for further studies?
This year’s college entrance examination, Liu Yi from Bashu Middle School was successfully admitted to the mathematics major of Peking University. Because Liu Yi has won many awards in national mathematics competitions: the second prize of China Mathematical Olympics in 2012 and the first prize of the National Senior High School Mathematics League (provincial division) for three consecutive years from 2009 to 2011.
Liu Yi is just one of the college entrance examination graduates who were walked. In this year’s college entrance examination, 80 students in our city were admitted to well-known universities such as Peking University, Tsinghua University and Fudan University for winning the competition, accounting for 39% of the 203 students admitted.
In 2014, the Olympic College Entrance Examination was cancelled.
Independent enrollment is preferred.
In 2011, among the 186 students who walked in the college entrance examination in our city, 69 students won prizes because of academic competitions, accounting for 37% of the total number of students who walked, and 7 of them won prizes in the Olympic Games. In 2010, 63 students in our city were walked because of winning the competition, accounting for 40% of the 159 students walked that year, among which 8 students won the national Olympic Mathematical Competition. Throughout the past three years, nearly 40% of the students who walk in the college entrance examination in our city are winners of various competitions, except those recommended by Chongqing Foreign Languages School.
However, this situation will change in 2014.
In 2010, the Ministry of Education launched a plan to standardize and adjust some college entrance examination plus points. From the college entrance examination in 2014, the students who could have been eligible for walking in the national finals of the Olympic Games and the first prize of the Olympic Games Division will no longer be eligible for walking in the future, but under the same conditions, the colleges and universities applied by students will be given priority to participate in the independent selection and admission assessment of their own schools.
Top class expands thinking
"Olympic math class" continues under another name.
Although the Olympic Games winners will cancel the college entrance examination walk from 2014, the Olympic Games training is still hot.
On the morning of November 2, a female teacher at the Learning and Thinking Service Center in the Three Gorges Square in Shapingba District said that their Olympic math training is divided into "top class" and "extraordinary class". In which class children can enter, they must first take an entrance test. From the fifth grade, they must learn seven major sections of primary school Olympic math: calculation, geometry, itinerary, number theory, counting, applied questions and miscellaneous questions. If you have a good foundation, you can finish the knowledge of junior high school for several years.
According to reports, each class has a class once a week, and the cost of 15 classes is 1820 yuan. A class usually enrolls about 20 students. The teacher said that the number of places in the autumn class is full, and the class has been started five times. If you are worried that your child can’t keep up, it is recommended to wait until the beginning of December to attend the winter vacation class or the spring class next year.
On the afternoon of November 3rd, at a training school in Yangjiaping Pedestrian Street, the mathematics training of the school was called "Expanding Thinking". The person in charge of the school told the reporter that there is no special Olympic math class at present. For students whose math scores are above 95 at ordinary times, if they have special requirements for studying Olympic math, the school will arrange special teachers to attend classes, and the cost is about 140 yuan ~160 yuan/hour.
The reporter visited a number of training institutions and found that some of the textbooks used in these training courses were compiled according to the Olympic Mathematics textbooks, and some were excerpted from the Olympic Mathematics textbooks. The examples and exercises were almost the same. Compared with the past Olympic math class, only the name has changed.
Mathematics class is the hottest.
The school competition class is still not cooling down.
Olympic Mathematical Training is still popular in training institutions, has it cooled down in various schools?
"Mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, informatics, all disciplines have competition classes, and many students have signed up. However, the hottest thing is the math class. " Xiao Jing (a pseudonym), a senior two girl from a directly affiliated school in Shapingba District, said, "Maybe everyone thinks that the math foundation is better, so they all want to spell math."
"Almost all the students in the experimental class reported to the competition class, and many students in the parallel class also participated in the training." Xiao Yang, a senior two boy from Bashu Middle School, said that he signed up for the biology class he was most interested in.
"After the cancellation of the walk, some students’ enthusiasm is declining, but those who should participate will still participate." Teacher Zhou, who has been the head coach of a middle school for a long time, said that, for example, more than 50 freshmen are taking part in his tutoring this year. The reporter’s investigation found that key middle schools in our city, especially those directly under the Municipal Education Commission, such as No.1 Middle School, No.3 Middle School, No.8 Middle School and Bashu Middle School, still offer various subject competition classes in all grades of high school.
Nearly 70% of the respondents said that they had trained.
Olympic Games is trapped in the embarrassment of "10,000 people sparring"
According to the survey report of China Social Investigation Institute on families in large and medium-sized cities in China, 68% of school-age children have participated in Olympic Games training. 57% of the respondents said that it was to give children the opportunity to enter a prestigious school; 48% is to cultivate children’s logical thinking ability; Only 4% said that "children are willing to attend the Olympic Games".
"Learning the Olympic Games is very bitter and boring. Many students gave up later, and only a few won the prize in the end." Xiao Liu, who won the first prize in the National Biology Competition for Middle School Students last year and was sent to Peking University, said.
"There are many students who have participated in the training, but there are very few students who can finally win the award and get the qualification to walk." The person in charge of the Academic Affairs Office of a key middle school told the reporter that a large number of students participate in the Olympic Games in various subjects every year, but most of them become "sparring partners". For example, there are thousands of students in Chongqing who participate in the National Mathematics League, and only about 20 students finally win the prize and get the qualification to walk.
cause
Winning the prize to become a prestigious school’s independent enrollment "knocking on the door"
Why is it that after knowing that the Olympic Games won the prize and canceled the walk, the training in disciplines such as Olympic Mathematics has not cooled down?
"There are three ways to enter a famous university: one is to get good grades in the naked college entrance examination, the other is to take the independent entrance examination of famous universities, and the third is to win prizes in competitions." Xiao Jing said that although winning the prize is no longer eligible for walking, it can still increase the chips in the independent enrollment of famous universities.
"The purpose of my training is to win the prize, so that I can take the independent entrance examination in the future." Xiao Huang, a senior two boy from Chongqing No.1 Middle School, said frankly that he hopes to win the prize in the national Olympic Mathematical Competition, which is a "stepping stone" for the independent enrollment of famous universities.
In fact, "winning the Olympic Games" is still one of the conditions for many prestigious schools to enroll themselves. For example, Nanjing University’s self-enrollment plan A in 2012 clearly wrote the conditions such as "those who won the first prize at the provincial level in the national Olympics in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and informatics or those who won the second prize in the provincial division in both mathematics and physics" into the enrollment brochure. Shandong University’s conditions for self-enrollment and self-recommendation in 2012 also include "candidates who won the second prize and above in the provincial division".
Li Changming, vice president of the Municipal Academy of Education, said: "The Olympic Games is hot, because many students are still studying for extra points and independent enrollment of famous universities, so we can’t expect a paper document to save the Olympic Games." "The winners of the Olympic Games are important targets for independent enrollment and selection of key universities at present." Xiong Bingqi, vice president of 21st Century Education Research Institute, also believes that there are 80 key universities with independent enrollment qualifications in China, and their concern for Olympic winners will not be cancelled with the cancellation of the qualification for walking. The root of "Olympic fever" is that the college entrance examination still selects students with a single score standard.
Benefits Blow the "Bubble" of the Olympic Games
The headmaster of a key middle school in our city told the reporter that the Olympic Games is a global competition. Foreign students study the Olympic Games out of interest, usually attending training classes in winter and summer vacations, but the domestic Olympic Games training has completely changed, and there is an invisible interest chain behind it.
It is understood that the Olympic Games has formed a complete interest chain covering training, textbook writing and publishing, competitions, etc.: training institutions charge fees by running Olympic Games classes; Research institutions make money by processing Olympic Games teaching materials; The organizers earn money by holding various competitions, and the economic interests make the utilitarianism of the Olympic Games more obvious.
The reporter investigated a number of Olympic Games training institutions and learned that at present, the cost of each training course in Olympic Games in our city ranges from 1,800 yuan to 5,000 yuan, with teachers ranging from retired teachers to Olympic Games coaches from prestigious schools. It is reported that the Beijing Olympic Games market will reach 2 billion yuan in one year. Xiong Bingqi, vice president of 21st Century Education Research Institute, said that there is a training market with a share of more than 200 billion yuan, 80% of which is subject-based training, including primary and secondary school training, including Olympic Mathematics.
suggestion
Multi-evaluation system should be established in college entrance examination
"If we don’t break the cycle of the college entrance examination, it will be difficult to cool down the Olympic Games fever. The college entrance examination should not only examine people by scores, but also establish a credible multi-evaluation system. The evaluation and selection of talents should be more targeted at people themselves, rather than relying on certificates and awards." Li Changming, vice president of the Municipal Academy of Education, believes that it is also meaningful to retain the extra points in the Olympic Games. After all, the Olympic Games is one of the ways to test students’ academic specialties and potential, which can meet the development needs of a small number of candidates with special talents. We should intensify the reform of the college entrance examination and crack the strange circle of taking exams.
"The vast majority of students learn the Olympic Games, or to improve their test scores. There are very few students who are really interested in participating in the Olympic Games." Xiong Bingqi, vice president of 21st Century Education Research Institute, thinks that, therefore, despite the cancellation of the Olympic Games in many places, the Olympic Games is still very hot. Because the pursuit of high scores in subject examinations is the common pursuit of all parents and students. The best way to really cool down the "Olympic fever" is to reform the college entrance examination system and establish a diversified evaluation system.
In 2001, the Ministry of Education issued a ban, stipulating that the results of "Olympic Games" should not be linked to enrollment.
In November, 2010, the Ministry of Education and other five departments launched a plan to standardize and adjust some college entrance examination plus points. Students who won the first prize in the national finals of the Olympic Games and the first prize in the Olympic Games Division will no longer be eligible for walks, but under the same conditions, colleges and universities applied by students will be given priority to participate in the independent selection and admission assessment of their own schools.
In August, 2012, the Ministry of Education issued a "supervision order" to start school in autumn, forbidding the holding of training courses linked to enrollment, resolutely stopping the behavior of linking the Olympic Mathematics in disguise, and not setting up or setting up key classes in disguise. (Chongqing Business Daily)
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