introduction
When the avalanche comes, every snowflake says it has nothing to do with itself. It was the countless self-confessed snowflakes that conspired to the avalanche; when the floods hit, each stream said it had nothing to do with itself; it was the countless streams that conspired to the flood.
As long as the chain of disaster is long enough and there are enough people involved, everyone can evade responsibility with "no way," none of my business. "
What is the "theater effect"?
Let`s start with an example of a simple image to illustrate what the theater effect is.
For example, in a theater, everyone is watching a play. Everyone has a seat and everyone can see the actor`s performance. Suddenly, one of the spectators stood up to see the play (perhaps to see it more clearly or because of their height), and the people around him advised him to sit down. He turned a deaf ear and turned to the theater keeper, who was not in his post.
Therefore, the people around in order to see the show, also forced to stand up to see the play. In the end, the audience changed from sitting and watching the play to standing there.
Is there any difference?
First, the people who stood up and watched the play became clearer in a short period of time, and when everyone got up, the effect was almost the same as before.
It`s just that all of us are standing up to the theatre, and all of us are even more tired.
Everyone paid more physical cost and got the same (or even worse) effect as before.
Even more tragic, although everyone is more tired, but no one will choose to sit down to see the play.
Because, who chooses to sit down, who can not see anything.
On the contrary, some people will begin to stand on the chair to watch the play, causing more people to stand on the chair to watch the play.
As a result, an unprecedented spectacle appeared, and a chair somewhere was used not to sit, but to stand.
As a result, the disorderly did not receive lasting gains, while the order-abiding person was the victim.
On the face of it, to blame the order-breaking audience, it was him who broke the order first.
In fact, the real responsible person, should be the theater administrator, after all, he is the maintenance of order.
An example of kidnapping Education of "Theater effect"
The "theater effect" is rampant in education in China. China`s education has been kidnapped in a vicious disorder, accelerating its fall in decline.
Example 1: prolonged school hours
How long should students study each day? There are regulations in the state, and there are laws in physiology. However, the theater effect has repeatedly breached national regulations and the bottom line of student health.
Take the high school stage of the province with a large general population as an example, and its logic has evolved as follows:
Stage one: all schools are executed according to state regulations, such as five days a week, eight classes a day, no morning or evening self-study, and it is harmonious.
Stage 2 (individual stand up to the theatre): suddenly, a school switched to six days a week, 10 classes a day, and achieved good school results. Won the praise and pursuit of parents.
Phase three (everyone stands up to see the play): so other schools are forced to follow up under pressure from their performance reviews and parents. After a period of time, the school has become a six-day system. Disobedience in one school inevitably turns out to be unruly in all schools (except for the so-called "rotten schools" that give up competition themselves). As a result, everyone`s school time reached a new balance.
Stage 4 (stand on a chair to see a play): some schools lose their limit and take a two-week break, plus morning and evening self-study. Some even went on to get up at 5: 00 a. M. and rest at 11:00 in the evening. As a result, other schools were forced to follow up.
So intense, some schools even a month to rest half a day, though appalling, but abound.
Although some schools are under pressure and do not fully follow up, no school (especially key schools) has the courage to return to the five-day schooling system and not start with self-study in the morning and evening. All the schools are unable to return.
All schools have struck a new balance in this horrendous rhythm as everyone has increased their time at school:
Schools that first extend their time gain an advantage over a short period of time (in some counties, for example), but with the rapid follow-up of other schools (cities and provinces are also "county-wide" in school hours), the advantages of these first-mover schools are gradually lost.
Compared with the original five-day working system, there is no essential change in school achievement and ranking. The difference is: all schools, students, teachers are more tired, but still get the original ranking. However, no one dares to return to the five-day work system, no one dare to return.
Example two: more and more intensive supplementary classes
The above examples generally refer to high school. High school, it seems, is a special district of policy supervision. Junior high school and primary school, the state policy or card stricter, after all, for such young children, most of the public schools or slightly embarrassed. So another substitute came on: a cram class.
The first stage (no one goes to cram class): the students in the class are good and poor, but the teachers and parents do not care about the children`s good or bad grades, few people will go to remedial classes to improve their scores. This is the starting state. Looking back at the schools of the 1980s, there was almost no such thing as cram classes in society.
Stage 2 (individual classes): all of a sudden, students use weekend time to make up classes, or to attend remedial classes, or look for one-on-one tutoring to improve their grades in a short period of time, causing other parents to follow suit.
Phase three (most people go to cram classes): so, competition gets stronger, others get better grades, you don`t go to cram classes and you lag behind. Almost all the students in the class went to cram school. As a result, the ranking of all the results returned to the initial state.
The fourth stage (pursue famous brand cram class and famous school teacher): the cram class is not enough already, need to go to famous school cram class, find famous school teacher make-up study. "which cram class does your child sign up for?" has become a central topic for many parents to chat with.
Some brand-name cram classes are hard to get, even better than state-run schools, often causing traffic jams after school. Some "well-known school teachers" are even more hot, making a lot of money. There are even more cram classes or teachers illegal publicity, pull flags to pull tiger skin, Li ghost impersonation Li Kui there is, there is no shortage of kidnappers.
It used to be a bad cram school, but now it`s a good one. Why do good students go to cram classes? Because other good students are also tinkering, are becoming better, you will lag behind if you do not work hard! As for those who are poor in study, even cram classes are not accepted. A lot of cram class, to sign up need to take an exam first, pay not necessarily let you come on.
So intense, but bitter parents and children.
Paradoxically, the result of such a vicious race to cram class is the same sort and promotion results as before. The difference is that parents` financial burdens are heavier and their children`s childhood more miserable.
And the cram class and the remedial study teacher is wantonly amass the wealth, the smiling face is open. The truth is clear: if we all understand, do not go to cram classes, to the children to lighten the burden, to the parents to untie, not good? But no one`s going back! Because nobody dares or wants to stop first! Who stops first and who loses?
Example 3: crazy homework
There was bright moonlight in front of the bed, like a cold frost on the ground, looking up at the moon in the sky, and bowed his head to do his homework.
The current plummeted down from a height of three thousand feet, suspected to be nine days from work.
Gusu city outside the lonely calm cold mountain temple, night work to the passenger ship.
Friends and relatives in Luoyang say I`m doing homework if they ask me.
The ribbon is getting wider and never regrets, and the homework is haggard.
........
There have been too many complaints about homework.
The previous paragraph of social app Time line a parent with their children to do homework tweets once brushed the screen. It is mentioned that:
Accompanying children to do homework has become a dangerous job, accompanied by homework leads to myocardial infarction. A must-read bibliography has also been published to accompany the children to do their homework:
Stage one Encyclopedia intimate Parental, take your Child`s time, let your Child decide.
The second stage, Mo angry, Buddhist sutras, Laozi, on the protracted War.
The third stage, Prevention and treatment of Heart Disease, Hypertension and hypotension, self-recovery of obsessive-compulsive Disorder (OCD).
The fourth stage is "alive".
Homework, but also how to be straight in the abuse of students while torturing parents at the same time?
Similarly, the answer can be found in the Theatre effect.
The first stage (not much homework): in the 1980s, it was the childhood of homework, when there were few subjects, little and simple homework, and early school. It`s not a problem to finish your homework, and you can play happily after you finish your homework. After school, boys dig out bird`s nest on trees, catch fish and turtle down the river, girls jump skin tendons, do handwork, are the normal school days.
Stage 2 (more assignments): some subjects or teachers have increased their assignments, and the results of this subject have improved immediately, driven by pressure from the evaluation, and other subjects have followed up one after another.
The third phase (job freak): only increases the number of jobs is out of date, the types and forms of jobs also keep pace with the times.
In addition to the teacher`s homework, there are also parents to change the homework, in addition to in-class homework, there are extracurricular assignments, display homework, research homework, online education homework, sign in the wrong, social app, photo upload. Homework has become a top priority for family harmony.
Stage 4 (homework madness): homework, emphasis on implementation, the key is the parents. Homework becomes the most important dimension to measure students` learning attitude and parents` support to the school.
It has become the norm in many schools not to write homework, or even suspend classes, and parents who do not have enough homework are invited to the school for interviews.
The same tragedy is that when every student and every school has done so much more, there is no significant change in their grades and assignments.
After doing so much homework, the students were full of aversion to learning and hate about school.
School? What doesn`t exist is just a place where penalized writing operations are penalized. In particular: no one can stop, no one dare to do less homework, no one dare not do homework.
Don`t you see, the high-rise mirror does his homework, and the morning is as dark as silk and the evening is as white as snow.
Don`t you see, the bugle rings, the horse whistles, the pedestrians work at the waist.
Do you not see, look inside and outside the Great Wall, only the spare homework; up and down the river, the homework surging.
Don`t you see that homework is eroding rest, driving out entertainment, destroying health, destroying kinship, and enslaving the future.
Children may not win in the starting line, they may die in the exercise book first.
Example 4: awkward excellent teache
Crazy vicious competition not only swallowed students and parents, but also ravaged teachers and even reversed the elimination of classroom ecology.
I talked to a junior high school teacher a few days ago. She is an excellent political teacher of nearly 20 years of teaching. Her teaching achievements have always been excellent and interesting and predictable in the classroom. She is very popular with students and is also one of the best in all kinds of open class competitions.
However, the senior and outstanding teacher, who is generally accepted as a professional teacher, is embarrassed and helpless to become the "backward teacher" in the school evaluation system.
What exactly happened?
The thing is, this middle school has not enough teachers, and the school has a staff member (no teaching experience at all, physical education major, not political major.) Act as an agent for a few classes in politics.
The acting teacher lacks the theoretical and professional qualities of politics, so there is no classroom skill, and there is no situational, inquiry-based teaching. Class takes ten minutes to let the students draw a key, the remaining 30 minutes to use various means to let students memorize, everyone through the recitation. Reciting students after class to the office and then reciting, can not complete reciting the task of interviewing parents.
After a semester, the teacher led the way in his grades. School leaders to substitute "layman teachers" eye-catching, praise. Criticism of other political teachers is a "fake expert" to learn from the substitute teacher the "advanced experience" of improving his grades.
As a result, the classroom in this school also showed a similar "theater effect". Teachers put down the enlightening teaching methods, stopped adopting information technology in the classroom, no longer expanded extra-curricular resources, no longer discussed and displayed, and did not delve into teaching materials and teaching methods. Also does not intend to learn what lesson reform experience, all has become the recitation tacit teaching method.
The classroom ecology has fallen completely.
When all the classes were reduced to the back, after the practice, the students` scores returned to the original ranking, all the teacher performance also returned to the original position.
Just, the students are more tired, more tired of learning, because the class has become "boring".
Just, the teachers are more stupid, more tired, because teaching has become physical labor.
You see, schools that are supposed to read, think, discuss, nourish souls, inspire ideas and nurture wisdom are becoming concentration camps that create endorsements, mass-produce illiteracy, destroy cultural bloodlines, and stifle creativity.
This is the result of the proliferation of the "theater effect". This is Bad money drives out good`s reverse elimination.
Example 5: unscrupulous super high schools
When the "theater effect" overlaps with each other and forms a combination of several theater effects, such as closed management, centralized supplementary classes, centralized training and illegal admissions, a strange creature has never been born in the history of human education, that is, super high school.
None of the other countries are unique to China.
History has never appeared, and the present is becoming more and more intense.
The first stage (there is no super high school): each school enrolling students according to the national policy orderly, each school has its own characteristics and bright spots.
The second stage (the rise of super high schools): a high school takes extraordinary measures to extend school hours and make up for classes on weekends, especially by taking heavy money to attract top students from other places and excellent teachers from other places, and the rate of advancement is increasing by leaps and bounds. And rapidly expand enrollment scale.
The third stage (super high school inflation): with the increase in enrollment rate and the expansion of enrollment, super secondary schools have siphon effects on high-quality students and excellent teachers in the surrounding areas. And through "borrowing students", "branch students", "remedial students" of the high tuition fees to get rich returns.
Then we continue to attract the high-quality students from the periphery and even the province and the excellent teachers from all over the country with abundant funds, forming the snowball effect of enlarging the scale of running a school and increasing the reputation of the top students in the return of the fund chain.
The fourth stage (promotion of the super middle school model): with the rise of one or two super high schools, other powerful secondary schools follow the lead of super high schools; High school admissions and school-running levels in the surrounding counties and districts are declining rapidly, and even ordinary middle schools across the province fall into a large area of collapse.
Ending: as long as there is a super high school in the region or province, the road to study for all students becomes more difficult.
First, it takes more time and energy to compete with the ever-higher score line for the top students to enter super high school.
Second, middle-class students who have no chance of entering a super high school by their scores alone have to spend a lot of high school fees (up to tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands) in order to get a degree in a super high school, and the economic cost of further studies has increased dramatically. In fact, it stifled the ascendant channel of the middle and lower class children.
Third, ordinary students who have the potential to learn, but poor economic conditions, can only study in the collapsing ordinary middle school, the road to study is more difficult, and the rising channel is more narrow.
Fourth, as for the original poor academic performance of the general students, can only drop out of school early to work.
The existence of super high schools does not really improve the quality of education in the province, nor will it increase the enrolment of prestigious universities in the province. Just let the province`s students more tired, teachers more tired, the fall of ordinary secondary schools, the financial burden of parents increased sharply.
Super High School, in fact the management of Super High School, is the only beneficiary of this "theater effect" of freak.
But do you think super high school tastes good? Not exactly。
Super High School is like the beneficiary of dancing on the tip of the knife, high and cold. It is always fearful, trembling, treading on thin ice, it dares not relax, it can`t stop at all. With a slight blunder and a blunder, the rest of the super-high schools will quickly take their place.
No one can stop.
In order to stabilize the freak gyroscope, it can only accelerate the rotation.
As long as the pace of rotation slows down, it means collapse.
Who`s the victim of the theater effect?
Under the "theater effect", everyone is a victim.
The children were the first victims to bear the brunt. They didn`t have to do so much homework, take so many cram classes and spend so many nights. They could have had enough sleep, fun games, outing, leisure, daze, running, reading, writing poetry, making friends..
But now the children are really too hard and tired. It is not uncommon for pupils to stay up late until 12:00, and middle school students who do homework all night. As for the legendary two-day weekend, it is either spent in homework or between cram classes.
But they worked so hard that all they got was almost the same result. After more than a dozen years of mechanical tedious restraint, they were often tired of reading when they left school. What kind of innovation can you expect from this generation?
Parents are also victims. The wallet was emptied, the body was drained, and the parent-child relationship was destroyed. The winners are always in the minority, and the majority of parents hope for their children and women for the Phoenix.
For the future of the child overdraw the growth of the child, in order to destroy the so-called scores of family harmony, it turns out that the so-called high scores do not lead to legendary success.
What is the point of such success when children are destroyed physically and mentally, when family ties are broken, even if a small number of children get ahead and become famous?
Nor can the teachers escape. On the surface, some teachers make a lot of money from tutoring, but most teachers give up their health and family and may not be able to achieve students` brilliance. The students are hard-working, the parents are hard-hearted, and the teachers are hard-lived. Working hours are so long that the legal weekends and winter and summer holidays have been a distant legend for Chinese high school teachers.
Even more hilarious, after such intense labor, they will eventually find that the students they cultivate have little success in personality, morality, thought, and so on, except for a few points.
In essence, Theater effect kidnaps education. In the vicious competition, education realizes self-alienation. Schools are creating illiteracy and education is ruining civilization.
To say, several generations of people immersed in the examination can not extricate themselves, such a growing up of talent, its innovative ability is not optimistic. After nearly 40 years of reform and opening-up, most of our industrial output has leapt to the top of the world. However, what level of talent training do we have in the world?.
Who created the theater effect?
Is it a student? But it is not wrong to study hard and get ahead of yourself.
Is it a parent? But it is not wrong to hope for a girl to become a Phoenix.
Is it a teacher? It is the teacher`s responsibility to improve the score of the examination.
Is that school? Under all kinds of pressure, the school has to survive.
The destruction of order is the result of collective conspiracy.
Everyone is not only the destroyer of the imbalance of order, but also the victim of the imbalance of order. Everyone is both a victim and a murderer.
When the avalanche comes, every snowflake says it has nothing to do with itself. It was the countless self-confessed snowflakes that conspired to the avalanche; when the floods hit, each stream said it had nothing to do with itself; it was the countless streams that conspired to the flood. As long as the chain of disaster is long enough and there are enough people involved, everyone can evade responsibility with "no way," none of my business. "
Are the children willing to go to cram school and do their homework? No, it`s not.
Are parents willing to make their children suffer? No, it`s not.
It is the single scale of evaluation, the excessive vicious competition, the absence of supervision, the relative lack of resources, the anxiety of survival, the fear that the next generation cannot lose, the kidnapping of parents, children and teachers.
Of course, it is still necessary to distinguish between primary and secondary responsibilities.
The first is the absence of regulatory oversight. It is the supervisor`s job to maintain order. School time has been prolonged, illegal remedial institutions overrun, the number of homework continues to increase, super high school enrollment violations.
There have long been explicit restrictions in the country, but these provisions are nothing more than a piece of paper. Regulators are primarily responsible for the imbalance in the theater effect.
Second, the educator`s desire to refuse to welcome. Schools and teachers should be important breakwater against the "theater effect". In the face of vicious competition, benefit of temptation, parents` pressure, educators should have basic conscience and conduct, and should not lose the bottom line again and again.
This bottom line is: do not break the law, do not violate the law, do not harm the physical and mental health of the students. In this breakwater, the management of the school is inescapable.
Third, is the unscrupulous merchant and the media wantonly mess. In order to make profit, a large number of tutorial organizations have made use of all kinds of self-media or paper media to publicize violations and do everything they can to create "can`t lose in the starting line", "promotion secrets," score book, "famous teacher click and dial." And so on false information, increased parents and students` learning anxiety.
Fourth, parents and students. It is the vulnerable group trapped in the flood, unable to make policies, unable to screen information, unable to change rules, can only struggle in the flood to save themselves.
Each time they save themselves, they inadvertently exacerbate the flood, and most of the result is both hurting others and not helping themselves.
Dream: the future of school
What else do you mean to study besides homework and exams?
Is there any other education in school besides doing exams and classes?
Let the children do less homework, the sky will not fall.
Let the children attend less supplementary classes, the ground will not sink.
Perhaps, they can learn easier, more efficient, more enjoyable.
I saw a description of such a school.
In the future, there is such a school. Take culture classes in the morning, interest classes and club activities in the afternoon, including sports, music, art, crafts, dance, drama, poetry, philosophy, games, science and technology production.
In the evening, read a book, write an article, watch a movie, take a walk, have a party, or be stunned. On weekends, it`s an outing, a sports event, a social practice or a visit to a museum.
Such schools are not expensive, at least not more expensive than attending cram classes.
Perhaps, this day is not far away.
Perhaps, this future is coming.
