Children who do not buy tablet computers are difficult to enter the "smart class"?check!

Shanxi multi -school promotes "tablet+resources" in disguise: 8800 yuan for children to enter the "smart class"

Recently, the "Xinhua Vision Point" reporter followed the first inspection team of the State Council's ninth inspection team to investigate and develop in Shanxi Province. Many local schools divided the "smart class" and ordinary classes based on whether to buy tablet computers. Entering the "smart class", thousands of yuan, etc. need to pay the curriculum resource fee and tablet use fee. Although many parents have conflicts, in order to make their children a good class, they have to put their heads hard.

Whether to pay 8,000 yuan in resources and tablet fees for composition classes

Recently, some people reflected the clue of the problem on the "Internet+Inspection" platform on the State Council. The "Smart Classroom" of the 63rd Middle School in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, promoted that the parents of students to buy tablet computer resource services were implied. The fee is 8800 yuan. Based on whether the school purchases this service as the basis, students will be divided into "smart classes" and ordinary classes. The inspection team conducted an unannounced visitor.

During the investigation, Li Ming (a pseudonym) of the parents of the 63rd and high school students reported that at the freshman reporting meeting held in late July, the school delivered a simple welcome speech and introduced a lot of time to introduce the limited educational technology of the school and Shanxi Longzhimenmen. "Smart Class" launched by the company.

"It is said at the meeting that the" Smart Classroom "uses the related product and services of a middle school online school in Beijing, which is mainly used for classroom teaching, homework correction, etc. The original price of high school three -year platform and resource use fee is 13,200 yuan. Promotion, the actual payment is 8,800 yuan. If parents buy resources, the company will give a custom tablet computer, and children can enter the 'smart class'. "Li Ming said that many parents then transferred to the company.

Agreement signed by Parents and Shanxi Longzhimen Education Technology Co., Ltd.. (Photo confession for the ninth inspection team of the State Council)

The members of the inspection team immediately called the company in the name of the parents and asked if they had a tablet, whether they could directly install the learning software at a lower price. The company rejected the student's own tablet computers do not have "customized functions". "The entire class needs to be managed uniformly, and the brand must also be scheduled regularly." Said Ms. Xu, the person in charge of the company's project.

Starting from the 23rd, high school students in the Sixty -three Middle School have already started military training. But Ms. Xu said that if she wants to enter the "smart class", she can pay her through WeChat before school. "The bills will be taken to you. After we feedback the information of the child, the school will be arranged uniformly in early September."

Seemingly "voluntary purchase" is actually "strong buying and strong sale"

After further visits, the inspection team found that there were more than a sixty -three schools that opened the "smart class". Similar to the school's methods and propaganda methods similar to the schools.

The picture shows the charging cabinet in the classroom of the 63rd Middle School in Taiyuan. (Photo confession for the ninth inspection team of the State Council)

——In the name of the fake, "group sales". The reporter saw from the first month of the "Smart Classroom" teaching of the Sixty -three Middle School. Last July, the school held the "High -level 'Smart Class' Construction Class Explanation Meeting". The deputy dean of the Institute of Teaching and Research introduced the teaching characteristics of the "smart class", the function of the tablet, and the operation training arrangement.

"After the meeting this year, the school arranged for parents and children to interview separately with the enterprise to ask the children's secondary entrance examination results, learning situation, selection intention, etc., and promoted the 'smart class' in the name of" consultation'. " "Core thought" is to urge parents to register as soon as possible. "Don't buy a fear of affecting children's learning, and even cause children to have inferiority. It is voluntary, but parents can not listen to school?" Li Ming said.

——Cope standing in disguise to collect "school selection fees". The relevant person in charge of Taiyuan City No. 15 Middle School said that the school has set up two "smart classes" each year since 2017, and a student is about a hundred students. Under the school's enrollment scores, the school also has a group of targeted admissions plans for specific schools and lower scores. The school will only publicize the "smart class" students in the "orientation students" of this batch of "unspoken students".

——The scope spreads, affecting the stage of compulsory education. The relevant person in charge of Taiyuan No. 11 Middle School said that at present, the school's junior high school has all purchased online learning resources worth 5,800 yuan. According to the Taiyuan Education Bureau, the Third Experimental Primary School in Yingze District, the Evergrande Royal Jingwan Experimental Primary School of the Daolian District, etc. are also imitating the "smart class". Methods, the payment price is 3,000 to 4000 yuan.

Promoting informationization urgently needs to build a "protective bar"

The inspection team combined with the preliminary statistics of the field visits. From 2017, nearly 5,000 students in Taiyuan have purchased the "smart classroom" service of Longzhimen and other companies. These companies have charged about 24 million yuan. Since the implementation of the "Smart Class", the Taiyuan Education Bureau has received many parents' letter visits and feedback.

It is reported that in August of this year, the Shanxi Provincial Department of Education has transferred the issue of "Smart Class" charging of 8600 yuan in the "Internet+Inspection" platform reflected by the State Council's "Internet+Inspection" platform. After investigation, the school believed that "no charges occurred, but there was a phenomenon of incompleteness in communication with parents and inadequate interpretation of the policy, which caused parents to have unnecessary misunderstandings." The Taiyuan Education Bureau reported this conclusion on August 14th. The 66th Middle School of Taiyuan City introduced the "smart class" related situations at the Parents' Association. (Photo confession for the ninth inspection team of the State Council)

The inspection team stated that during the implementation of "flat teaching" in some schools in Shanxi, there were hints and disguised students to purchase online learning resources and bundled sales of tablet computers, and violated the five departments such as the Ministry of Education and other five departments. "Management Opinions" "Do not force or imply students and parents to buy designated teaching aid software or information" and the eight departments such as the Ministry of Education "Opinions on Guiding Standardized Education Mobile Internet Applications" "as teaching and management tools" Educational mobile applications that are required to be unified are required, and no fees for students and parents shall not be charged "and other regulations.

In addition, the inspection team believes that the practices of these schools still have excessive use of electronic products teaching to damage young people's vision and violations according to the "tablet teaching" division class, and forced sales to easily breed corruption.

The inspection team believes that the use of informatization for educational reform and innovation is the general trend, but costs should not be passed on to students and parents, and students who are difficult to pay for "tablet resources" should be refused. At the same time, we should also pay attention to protecting students' vision and use electronic products reasonably.

The phenomenon of "smart class" is not occasional. In recent years, similar situations have also occurred in Jiaxing, Yunnan Simao and other places in Zhejiang, and have been urged to rectify. A teacher in Taiyuan City revealed that during the early August, he participated in the "Smart Class" training activities in Datong, Shanxi. There were many teachers from foreign schools who participated in the training.

In this regard, the inspection team suggested to further strengthen the management and supervision of education charges, especially third -party services, establish and improve the publicity system, improve the joint meeting mechanism, supervise the investigation and handling mechanism, account for accountability mechanism, establish a reversing inspection and supervision mechanism, strengthen the right to correct the rights Local supervision and inspection. At the same time, strengthen the assessment of myopia prevention and control of children and adolescents to protect young people's vision health.

Source: Xinhua News Agency

Reporter: Liu Weizhen

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