[Epoch Times August 08, 2021](Interviewed by The Epoch Times reporter Yi Ru) The CCP is stepping up its rigorous rectification of the education sector. Recently, many middle schools in Henan and Shaanxi have been converted from private schools to public schools. At the same time, the CCP launched a “double reduction” action on education and training institutions. So, what is the purpose of the so-called rectification of the education sector by the CCP?
Henan Huaiyang Net reported on August 6, that the Huaiyang No. 1 Senior High School in Zhoukou City, Henan Province held a preparatory meeting for the “public transfer” work on July 28. The original Huaiyang Yigao Board of Directors decided to formally donate Huaiyang Yigao as a whole to the local government.
According to the data, the No. 1 Senior High School in Huaiyang, Henan Province is a large-scale privately-run high school. Since its establishment in 2002, the junior high school has ranked first in the district for 18 consecutive years. The high school has received numerous students since 2008. Admitted to a prestigious school in the country. There are 1,300 faculty members and more than 20,000 students.
According to news, an official in Huaiyang District stated that it would take over Huaiyang No.1 High-Tech Development Co., Ltd. smoothly. On the day before (July 27), Zhoukou City held a city-wide symposium on regulating private compulsory education in the city, and launched a special work to regulate private compulsory education to ensure that the proportion of students in public compulsory education at the end of 2022 is controlled at 5% Within. On July 31, the Education and Sports Bureau of Huaiyang District, Zhoukou City announced in the form of a red head document that Huaiyang No. 1 Senior High School enrolled students as public schools.
According to a report by Shanxi’s “Taiyuan Evening News” on August 5, in accordance with the “Notice on Regulating the Establishment of Public Schools or Participation in the Establishment of Private Compulsory Education Schools”, “public participation in the public” will be further rectified (Note: Use of public schools’ popularity and teaching resources The establishment of private education, that is, the so-called “prestigious schools run private schools”) school model, the compulsory education stage of the “public participation in the public” schools to standardize. Since mid-July this year, 9 middle schools in Taiyuan have implemented the policy adjustment of transferring “public participation by citizens” schools to public schools. These schools include Chengcai Middle School, Wuyu Middle School, Shi Ai Middle School, Tongxin Foreign Language School, Wenhua Middle School, Phoenix Bilingual Middle School, Sanli Middle School, Nanhai Middle School, Xinghua Middle School.
According to the report, during the transition period of the establishment of the nine schools after being converted to the public, the operation and management mechanism and the school name remain unchanged. Change, the method of enrollment remains the same. At the same time, all newly recruited high school students and existing students in the 9 schools will implement the charging policies of public schools; all new students and existing students in the compulsory education stage will be exempted from tuition.
The measures taken by Henan and Shaanxi provinces to regulate privately-run compulsory education schools were criticized by netizens as “public-private partnerships.”
Control the mind of the whole people
Li Yuanhua, former associate professor of the School of Educational Science of Capital Normal University, told The Epoch Times that the CCP has now begun to convert private, private, or a combination of public and private schools allowed in the past to public schools. The main and core purpose is to strengthen the control of ideas.
“The CCP has always controlled this education very strictly. Controlling education is equivalent to controlling the minds of the whole people. Especially at the stage of basic education, it is very important for children to form a worldview, understand the world, and how to treat it. (And) private education, after all, requires To meet the needs of the market, it will weaken the CCP’s ideological control. The CCP sees that this is a weak link in its ideological control. Therefore, it must strengthen this part and regain control of all schools. This is its main starting point.”
Blocking the channels of free truth
Xie Tian, a professor at the Aiken School of Business at the University of South Carolina in the United States, told The Epoch Times that many private and rural elementary schools in China actually do not have enough funds, and private teachers are scarce. Therefore, in many places, people spontaneously set up private and private schools. School.
“Why does the CCP want to convert them to public? Then the government pays to support it? The reason is simple, because these private and private schools, including cram schools, what they teach, and what their teachers say is that the CCP does not Can be strictly controlled.”
Xie Tian said that the CCP inculcates the evil ideas of communism, Marxism-Leninism, and Xi Jinping in all schools. The Chinese people are dissatisfied with the CCP’s political propaganda and have a desire for truth and truth, but they do not get it in government-run schools. arrive. Private and private schools, especially off-campus cram schools have reached such a huge level in China, and many students have learned things that they could not learn in schools.
“The teachers of these private and private schools and cram schools have some freedom, and they are free to speak some real things. Some are intolerable by the CCP. Now they are beginning to tighten and block all these channels that may spread the truth about freedom. superior.”
Monopoly the education industry?
On July 24, the CCP issued a “double reduction” measure for the education and training industry, that is, the “Opinions on Further Reducing the Work Burden of Students in Compulsory Education and the Burden of Off-campus Training”, which began to crack down on the rectification of the off-campus training industry.
Some people in education and training institutions believe that through rectification, students will return to school to take care of them. There are also rumors on the Internet that starting from September 1st, Zhejiang Province will implement the new education policy to abolish home-school co-teachers. Specific measures include: students stay in school until 5 o’clock. This period of time is dedicated to homework and does not have homework. It is allowed to take it home and parents are not allowed to supervise and correct the homework.
Mr. Meng, the former head of a private education and training institution in mainland China, told The Epoch Times that nowadays, the supervision of cultural courses and on-the-job teachers (tutoring) is relatively strict. After the reorganization of the education and training industry, schools may act as guidance, and there may be a monopoly of institutions. “Leave aside cultural matters. If large institutions develop some sports and art (projects), they can monopolize (because) small ones. The institutions that have cut off cultural classes will no longer exist. Now many international schools have been cut off directly and are not allowed to run. Many international classes run by ordinary high schools are subject to strict examination and approval, and are generally cut off.”
Xie Tian believes that these big education and training institutions that can eventually stay must be those that are willing and active to cooperate with the CCP, controlled by the party branch of the CCP, and infiltrate its educational structure. “Such institutions It is possible to survive under the CCP’s system, and they will be an extension of the CCP’s propaganda and educational brainwashing organization.”
Li Yuanhua said that the Chinese Communist Party’s administrative and education departments have long seen the huge benefits of these extracurricular uniforms, and they will find ways to share the cup in a reasonable and legal so-called name. The time has been extended, then at this time it will start charging, and it will become an official-run company, and the official-run company will not care about your needs. I will do whatever it takes to make money, because now officials at all levels are corrupting. It is impossible for these officials in the education category to not be corrupt. Since he wants to be corrupt, then he will have no bottom line to corrupt.”
Li Yuanhua said that in this sense, suppressing the education and training industry and suppressing private education will not completely solve China’s current education problems at this stage. “In the name of liberating the children, the problem is the unfairness of education, the selection of examinations has not changed, the imbalance of education has not changed, the imbalance of education investment has not changed, and the privilege of education has not been fundamentally solved. The superficial things cannot solve the education problem.”
According to data, there are nearly 200 million primary and secondary school students in mainland China, and the after-school education market is a “big gold mine”. In 2020, the financing scale of the education industry will reach hundreds of billions.
Stabilize the totalitarian rule
Li Yuanhua also stated that in the face of the public grievances caused by the extreme gap between the rich and the poor in the Chinese society, the foundation of the CCP is shaken.
“Children’s education is the only hope for parents or those parents who are currently in social injustice. The CCP will mix ordinary people with ordinary people to dilute this injustice, calm the people’s grievances, and make them think that the country still values it. There will still be investment. It is possible that my children will receive a good education in the future, and my family may stand up and give those who are still at the bottom of society or hopeless have some hope, so that it thinks it can stabilize its authoritarian totalitarianism. rule.”
Xie Tian said that when the CCP knows that its own ruling crisis is getting stronger and stronger, any search for the truth, any different opinions and voices will pose a threat to it, it will tighten step by step. .
“China is increasingly turning into a completely “1984”-style police state under full control, to confine the thoughts and speech of all people in China, and achieve its goal of continuing to rule.”
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