On the influence of contemporary "theater effect" in Chinese education circle

What is the "theater effect"?

Let's start with an example of a simple image to illustrate what a "theatrical effect" is.

For example, in a theater, everyone is watching the play. Everyone has a seat and everyone can see the actor's performance. Suddenly, an audience stood up to see the play (may be to see more clearly, or because of height), the people around him advised him to sit down, he turned a deaf ear to the theater administrator, the administrator is not in the post. So the people around were forced to stand up and watch the play in order to see the show. In the end, the audience turned from sitting and watching the play to standing and watching the play.

What's the difference?

First stand up to see the scene of the people in a short period of time to see more clearly, until everyone stood up, everyone looked at the effect and the original almost the same.

It's just that everyone is standing and watching the play and everyone is more tired.

All people, compared to the original pay more physical cost, got the same as the original (or even worse) the effect of the drama.

More tragic, although everyone is more tired, but there is no one choose to sit down to see the play.

Because, who chooses to sit down, who can see nothing.

On the contrary, people will start to stand in the chair to watch the play, causing more people to stand in the chair to watch the play.

Thus, an unprecedented spectacle arose, where a chair was not used to sit, but to stand.

As a result, those who break the order do not receive lasting gains, while those who obey the order are the victims.

On the surface, to blame for the destruction of the order, the first to stand up to the audience, is he, first destroyed the order.

In fact, the real responsible person, should be the theater administrator, after all, he is the order of defenders.

An example of "theatre effect" kidnapping education

The "theatrical effect" is flooding China's education. China's education has been kidnapped by vicious disorder, accelerating the fall in the deterioration.

1 Example one: Extended School hours

How much time do students have to study each day? The State has regulations, and physiology is also regular. However, the "theatrical effect" has repeatedly broken through the national regulations and the bottom line of student health.

Taking the high school stage of the general population province as an example, its logical evolution is as follows:

The first stage (sitting to see the play): All schools are implemented according to national regulations, such as five days a week, 8 lessons per day, no morning and evening self-study, quite harmonious.

Stage Two (individuals stand up to see the play):Suddenly, a school changed to six days a week, 10 lessons a day, the results achieved a better school performance. Won the praise of parents and sought after.

Stage Three (everyone stands up to see the play): so other schools are forced to follow up on performance appraisals and parental pressure. After a period of time, the school has become a six-day class system. A school's unruly behavior inevitably evolves into all schools that are unruly (except for the so-called "rotten schools" that give up the competition themselves). So we reached a new balance in school hours.

Fourth stage (stand in the chair to see the play): Some schools simply lose the lower limit, change to two weeks to rest, plus morning and evening study. There is even a development to get up five o'clock in the morning, 11 o'clock at night to rest. As a result, other schools were forced to follow suit.

It was so intensified that even some schools took one months off, albeit appalling, but abound.

Although some schools are under pressure, not fully follow-up, but no school (especially the key schools) dared to return to the five-day class system, not the beginning of morning and evening study. All the schools will not be back.

When everyone has increased their students ' time in school, all schools have reached a new balance in this scary rhythm: schools that have extended their time have gained a certain advantage in a short period of time (as in some counties), but with the rapid follow-up of other schools (in the city, in the provinces and in the middle of school), The advantages of these first-school schools are also gradually lost. Compared with the original five-day working system, there is no essential change in school performance and ranking. The difference is: all schools, students, teachers are more tired, but still get the original ranking. But no one dared return to the five-day working system, and no one dared to return.

2 example two: The intensified remedial lesson

The above examples are generally high school. High school seems to be the SAR for policy regulation. Junior high School and Primary school, the State policy or card is more strict, after all, to such a small children, most of the public schools are still slightly embarrassed. So another alternative came in: Cram school.

The first stage (no one to cram school): class students have good grades, fortunately, teachers and parents are not particularly concerned about the performance of children, almost no one in order to improve the score of cram schools. This is the starting state. Looking back at the schools of the 80 's, there was hardly any such thing as a cram school in society.

The second stage (someone else to cram school): Suddenly, some students use the weekend time to make up lessons, or is on the cram school, or is looking for one-on-one tutor, in a short time to improve their rankings, triggering other parents to follow.

The third stage (most people to cram school): So, the competition intensified, others to cram school performance improved, you do not go to cram school is relatively backward. Almost all the students in the class went to cram school. As a result, the ranking of our grades returned to the starting state.

The fourth stage (the pursuit of brand-name cram schools and elite teachers): Cram School has not enough to force, need to go to the famous school teachers to cram school. "Which Cram school is your child in?" "has become a central topic in many parents ' chats. Some "brand-name Cram school" a difficult to seek, even more than the public colleges and universities still bullish, often caused traffic congestion. Some "elite teachers" are hot, big money. More Cram school or teacher violation propaganda, pull the banner of the Tiger Skin, Lee Ghost Li Kui, swindling also no shortage.

In the past, learning is poor in cram school, now is the study of good cram schools. Why do the good students also cram school? Because other good students are also tutoring, is becoming better, you will lag behind without effort! As for the poor learning, even cram schools do not accept. A lot of cram school, need to enroll in the first exam, money is not necessarily let you come on.

This is getting worse, but it's hard for parents and children.

Paradoxically, the result of such a vicious race to cram school is the same sort of results as the original. the difference is that the financial burden of the parents is heavier, and the children are more miserable in their childhood. Cram schools and tuition teachers are grinning. The truth is clear: if we all figured out, do not cram school, to the children to relieve the burden, to the parents untie, not good? But, no one can go back! Because no one dared to stop first! Whoever stops first will suffer.

3 example Three: Crazy homework

Before the bed bright moonlight, suspect is ground frost, Jutou look at the moon, bow down to write homework.

The fall of 3,000 feet straight down, suspected that the job fell nine days off.

Gusu City outside Hanshan temple, night work to the passenger ship.

Luoyang relatives and friends like asked, said I was in the writing industry.

Emaciated finally do not regret, the work of people haggard.

......

There are too many of the grooves on the job.

A friend of the previous circle of parents with children writing industry tweets once brush screen. The article mentions: accompany the child to write the profession becomes the dangerous job, accompany the writing profession to cause the parents to myocardial infarction. Also out of accompany children writing industry must read: The first stage of "intimate Parenting encyclopedia", "Children you slowly", "let the children take the decision", the second stage "Mo Angry", "Buddhist Sutra", "Lao Tzu", "on protracted war", the third stage "Prevention and prevention of heart disease", "hypertension blood pressure", Stage four, "Alive" ...

Homework, and how to justly in the torture of students while torturing the parents?

Similarly, the answer can be found in the "theater effect".

The first stage (not much homework): in the 80 's, is the homework of childhood, then the subjects are few, the homework is also small and simple, school is also early. Finish homework is not a problem, after writing a job can be happy to play. After-school boys on the tree cut Bird's Nest, down the river Catch fish turtle, girls jump Band, do handmade, are students of the normal times.

Second Stage (more homework): Some subjects or teachers to increase the work, the subject of the results of immediate improvement, under the pressure of evaluation, other departments have followed.

The third stage (Job Metamorphosis): only increase the number of jobs is obsolete, the type and shape of the work with the Times. In addition to the teacher to change the homework, there are parents change homework, in addition to homework, there are homework, display work, inquiry work, network education work, the whole process of signature change wrong, punch, photo upload .... Homework has become the first priority of family harmony.

The fourth stage (Work Madness): homework, the implementation, implementation, the key in the parents. Homework has become the most important dimension to measure students ' learning attitude and parents ' support to school. Not writing homework to stand, or even suspended, in many schools has become the norm, supervision of poor parents are invited to the school interview is not uncommon.

It is also tragic that when every student and every school has written so much homework, there will be no significant change in their grades and assignments. But all the teachers, students and parents are more exhausted and increasingly exhausted. And, the deeper problem is: after writing so much homework, the students are full of disgust at learning this thing, the school this thing is full of hatred. School? What does not exist is just a place to concentrate on being punished by the writing industry for homework. Particularly deadly is: who also can not stop, who also dare not decorate homework, who dare not decorate homework.

June See, Gao Tang mirror write homework, like hair twilight into snow.

June See, Car resounds resounds, horse rustling, pedestrian work in the waist.

June not see, look at the Great Wall inside and outside, only work, Big River up and down, homework.

June See, homework is eroding rest, drive away entertainment, destroy health, destroy affection, enslave the future.

Children may not be able to win at the starting line, they might be exhausted in the exercise books.

4 example four: awkward excellent teachers

Crazy Vicious competition not only swallowed students and parents, but also ravage teachers, and even make the classroom ecological reverse elimination.

A few days ago and a junior high school teacher chat. She is an excellent political teacher with nearly 20 years of teaching, excellent academic performance, interesting in the classroom, well received by students, but also in all kinds of open class competition among the top. However, the recognized love and dedication of the senior teachers are embarrassed and helpless to become the school evaluation system of "backward teachers."

What is going on?

The thing is, the teachers in this middle school are not enough, the school let a staff (completely without any teaching experience, the study is the sports profession, is not the political profession. ) acting in several classes of politics. The acting teacher lacks the theory of politics and professional accomplishment, so there is no classroom skills, there is no situational, exploratory teaching. Class first with 10 minutes to let students draw the focus, the remaining 30 minutes to take a variety of means for students to recite, Man. The classmate who is not familiar with the back after class will go to the office to recite, not to recite the task of interviewing parents.

After a semester, the teacher took a lead in the exam. School leaders on the substitute of "layman teacher" admiration, praise has added. The other teachers in the political discipline are "fake experts", and they should learn from the substitute teacher "advanced experience" in improving their grades.

So, this school classroom also shows similar "theater effect", teachers put down the heuristic teaching method, the classroom no longer take the information technology, no longer expand extracurricular resources, no longer discuss the teaching materials, and also do not learn what lessons change experience, all become the endorsement + dictation teaching method.

The classroom ecology is completely under-occupied.

When all the classroom is reduced to back back, after practicing, the student's results back to the original sort, all the teacher performance also returned to the original position.

Only, the students are more tired, more weariness, because the classroom has become "boring".

Just, the teachers are more silly, more tired, because teaching has become manual labor.

You see, should have read, think, discuss, nourish the soul, stimulate the mind, the breeding of wisdom of the school is becoming the production of endorsement machines, mass production of illiteracy, destroy cultural blood, stifle creativity of the concentration camp.

This is the consequence of the "theatrical effect" flooding. This is the reverse elimination of the inferior currency expulsion of good currency.

5 Example five: Unbridled super high School

When the "theater effect" overlap each other, the closed management + intensive remedial courses + Centralized training + irregular admissions and other theatrical effects form a combination of boxing, a human education history of the unprecedented freak turned out, this is: Super high school.

No other country, only my Chinese unique.

History never comes, and now it's getting worse.

The first stage (no Super Secondary School): Each school according to the national policy of orderly enrollment, each school has its own characteristics and highlights.

The second stage (Super High School rise): a high school to take extraordinary measures to extend the school time, weekend lessons, especially to attract foreign top students and excellent teachers in the field, the increase in enrollment. and quickly expand the scale of enrolment.

The third stage (super Middle School expansion): with the increase of the graduation rates and the expansion of enrollment, super Secondary school to the surrounding high-quality students and excellent teachers to form a siphon effect, and through the "Borrow took health" "Campus students" "tuition students" high tuition fees to obtain a rich return on profits, Then with strong funds continue to attract the periphery and even the provincial high-quality students and the country's outstanding teachers, the formation of scale expansion + Monopoly top students + Capital chain return + reputation promotion snowball effect.

Fourth stage (super Secondary School model Promotion): with the rise of one or two super high schools, other powerful secondary schools also follow Super High School, the non-strength of the surrounding county Secondary school enrollment and school level of rapid decline, and even the province-wide general middle school fell into a large area of collapse.

The end: as long as there are areas or provinces where there is a super secondary school, all students are more difficult to learn.

First , the top students to enter the super secondary school to devote more time and energy to compete in the more and more high scores;

Second , the score does not go into super secondary school, they have to spend a lot of expensive tuition (up to tens of thousands of or even hundreds of thousands of) to obtain a super secondary school degree, the economic cost of further studies, in fact, kills the middle and lower class children's rising channel;

third, with the learning potential, but the poor economic conditions of ordinary students, only in the increasingly collapsed ordinary middle school, study the road more difficult, rising channel more narrow;

four, as for the original poor academic performance of ordinary students, can only drop out early to work.

The existence of super secondary schools does not really improve the quality of education in the provinces, nor does it increase the number of university admissions in the province. Just let the students in the province more tired, teachers more tired, the fall of ordinary secondary schools, the financial burden of parents increased sharply.

Super high School, in fact, is the management of super Secondary school, is the abnormal "theater effect" the only profit.

But do you think super high school tastes better? Not necessarily.

Super High School as the tip of the dance on the profit, the cusp, high place cold, it is always in fear, trembling, walking on thin ice, it does not dare to have the slightest relaxed, it simply can't stop. As soon as it slips a bit, the other super schools will be replaced quickly.

No one can stop.

The abnormal gyro wants to stabilize, can only accelerate the rotation.

Just slowing down the pace of rotation means a crash.

Who is the victim of the "theater effect"?

"Theater effect" covered, everyone is the victim.

The children are the first to suffer the brunt. originally they did not have to write so many homework, on so many cram school, endure so many nights. They could have plenty of sleep, have fun games, have outings, have leisure, can daze, can run, can read, can write poetry, can make friends .... But now the children are too bitter and too tired. It is not uncommon for pupils to stay up until 11.2, and the middle school students who have been writing all night are no shortage. As for the legendary double break, is not spent in the homework, is the shuttle between the cram school. But they are so hard to get is just the same as the original results. After more than 10 years of being so monotonous and mechanically bored, when they left school, they were often bored with reading. What kind of innovation can you expect from this generation?

parents were also victims. The purse was hollowed out and the body was drained, and the parent-child relationship was destroyed. Success is always a minority, the majority of parents pushy, hope female into chicken hopes also burst. For the children's future overdraft of the child's growth, in order to the so-called scores destroyed the harmony of the family, the results only found that the so-called high score does not bring legendary success. What is the point of such success when a child is destroyed, when the family is broken, and even a few children are made to excel?

The teachers couldn't escape. on the surface, some teachers have profited a lot from tuition, but most teachers have abandoned their health and family, and may not be able to achieve the brilliant students. Student hard, parents heart bitter, teacher commiseration. The work time is so long, the law stipulated the weekend and the winter vacation, for the Chinese high school teacher to come, has been a distant legend. What is even more ridiculous is that after paying such a high level of labor, they will eventually find that their students have few achievements in personality, morals, and ideas, except for a few points.

Essentially, the "theater effect" kidnapped education. in the vicious competition, education realizes the self-alienation. Schools are producing illiteracy, education is destroying civilization.

To the big said, several generations of people immersed in the examination, so that the growth of talent, its innovative ability is not optimistic. The reform and opening up nearly 40 years, most of our industrial production has leaped to the world's first, but our talent training level is ranked in the world?

Who created the "theater effect"?

Is it a student? But it is not wrong to study hard and to excel.

Is it a parent? But pushy hope female into chicken is not wrong ah?

Is it a teacher? It is the teacher's responsibility to raise the test score.

Is it a school? School under all kinds of pressure, to survive ah.

The destruction of order is the consequence of collective collusion.

Everyone is both an unbalanced and a victim of order imbalance. Everyone is both a victim and a murderer.

When the avalanche arrives, every snowflake says it has nothing to do with itself. It is the countless pieces of the snow that have conspired to make an avalanche; when the floods hit, every Brook said it had nothing to do with it, and countless streams conspired to flood the river. As long as the chain of disaster long enough to participate in enough people, everyone can use "no way" "and I have nothing to" to evade responsibility.

is the children willing to go to cram school, writing industry? Not.

Are parents willing to let their children suffer? Not.

is a single evaluation scale, is the excessive vicious competition, is the absence of supervision, is relatively scarce resources, is the survival of anxiety, is the next generation can not lose fear, kidnapping parents, children and teachers.

Of course, it is to distinguish between primary and secondary responsibility.

The first is the lack of supervision by regulators. Maintaining order is the supervisor's job. Students in school time has been prolonged, illegal tuition agencies overrun, the number of operations constantly overweight, super high school illegal admissions, the state has been expressly limited, but these provisions are shaped with dead letter. Regulators should bear the primary responsibility for the imbalance in the "theatrical effect".

second, the educator's desire to refuse to greet. schools and teachers should be to resist the "theater effect" of the important breakwater, in the face of vicious competition, the temptation of interest, the pressure of parents, educators should have a minimum conscience and integrity, can not repeatedly lose the bottom line. The bottom line is: no illegal, no violation, do not harm students ' physical and mental health. In this breakwater, the management of the school is duty-bound.

thirdly, unscrupulous businessmen and the media have been wantonly aggravating. a large number of tutorial institutions in order to profit, the use of various types of media or paper media, wantonly violate propaganda, fair bet, create "can not lose in the starting line" "Study Cheats" "to mention the Treasure book" "Teacher to Point" ... And so on false information, aggravate the parents and student's study anxiety.

iv. parents and students. is to be put into the torrent of vulnerable groups, unable to formulate policies, inability to identify information, can not change the rules, only in the torrent struggle to save themselves. Each of their own self-help has inadvertently exacerbated the flooding, most of the result is not only hurt others, but also help themselves.

Dream: The future of the school

Besides doing homework, what else does learning mean besides exams?

Apart from brushing the questions, does the school have any other education besides the class?

Let the children write less homework, the sky will not collapse.

Let the children take fewer lessons, the ground will not be trapped.

Maybe they can learn more easily, more efficiently and more happily.

See someone describing such a school.

In the future, there is such a school. I have a cultural class in the morning, interest classes in the afternoon and community activities, including sports, music, art, crafts, dance, drama, poetry, philosophy, games, technology production .... In the evening, read a book, write an article, watch a movie, walk, have a party, or be in a daze. On weekends, it is an outing, sporting event, social practice or visiting a museum.

Such a school is not expensive, at least not more expensive than the tutorial.

Perhaps, this day is not far away.

Perhaps, the future will come.

On the influence of contemporary "theater effect" in Chinese education circle