With the implementation of the comprehensive “two-child” policy, the difficulty of children entering the kindergarten has caused more worries. Some unlicensed kindergartens have opened one after another. Although there are various potential safety hazards and poor conditions for running schools, there are still parents who send their children to study. Many regions have taken measures to rectify unlicensed kindergartens, but they cannot fundamentally solve the problem of insufficient pre-school education resources.
Recently, the social survey center of China Youth newspaper conducted a survey on 2002 parents whose children are about to enter or are attending kindergarten through the questionnaire network. In the survey, of the parents of the children interviewed said that there were unlicensed kindergartens around them. For non-licensed kindergartens, 50.0 percent of the parents of the children interviewed support management, and 36.3 percent of the parents of the children interviewed support management. The three aspects that parents interviewed value most to kindergartens are that campus safety management is in place (70.3%), food hygiene is guaranteed (68.2%) and teachers graduate from formal preschool education (64.7%).
For non-licensed kindergartens, 50.0% of the parents interviewed support management, 36.3% of the parents interviewed support management
Gao Kexin, who works in Shanghai, is the mother of a 4-year-old child. She admitted frankly that her family around her sent her child to a kindergarten run by an art training institution in the community. “These kindergartens are small in scale, low in teaching level and even have potential safety hazards, but they are close to home and low in cost. Although they are parents, they also hope their children can receive better preschool education, however, most of the parents’ demands for kindergartens are mainly for some people to look at their children. Public parks are too difficult to enter, and some private parks have too expensive tuition fees, which are often 3000 or 4000, so they send their children to unlicensed kindergartens “.
Li Ying (alias), a public kindergarten teacher in a county in Hebei, told reporters that since about 10 years ago, many private kindergartens have appeared in her county one after another, many of which are unqualified and have incomplete certificates, moreover, it is more open in the urban-rural junction. But in recent years, such kindergartens have been much less. “Now the private kindergartens that run better are all under the supervision of the education bureau, and those with problems are banned one after another. Parents pay more and more attention to the qualifications of kindergartens”.
In the survey, 82.8 percent of the parents of the children interviewed said that their children were or were expected to enter the formal kindergarten, 10.4 percent of the parents interviewed admitted that they could not, and 6.8 percent of the parents interviewed said it was not easy to say.
Sending children to kindergarten, of the parents interviewed paid attention to whether the kindergarten documents were complete, and of the parents interviewed said frankly that they did not pay attention.
According to the “Regulations on kindergarten management” issued by the State Council, the state implements the kindergarten registration system. Without registration, no unit or individual may handle kindergartens. If children are recruited without registration, the administrative department of education shall, depending on the seriousness of the case, give administrative penalties for rectification within a time limit, stopping enrollment and stopping running the park.
In the survey, of the parents of the children interviewed said that they had unlicensed kindergartens around them.
During the NPC and CPPCC sessions this year, Pang Lijuan, a deputy of the National People’s Congress and Professor of the Department of Education of Beijing Normal University, joined more than 30 representatives to submit a bill, suggesting that the state introduce the pre-school education law as soon as possible. She also suggested that we should continue to promote the park management system of both public and private institutions, give policy support and economic support to private kindergartens, and appropriately reduce the access threshold such as site and scale on the premise of ensuring safety and health.
According to the survey, for non-licensed kindergartens, 50.0 percent of the parents of the children interviewed support management, 36.3 percent of the parents of the children interviewed support management, and 13.7 percent of the parents of the children interviewed cannot say anything.
Gao Kexin supports effective supervision of unlicensed kindergartens. “It is so difficult and expensive for children to go to kindergarten now. If some conditions for running a school without a license are OK, the government can urge them to improve it, meet the prescribed standards and complete the certificates, it is more meaningful than one pass”.
Li Ying told reporters that although many parents want to send their children to the public garden where she is located, there is no canteen there. “Most private parks still manage meals and lunch breaks, and compared with public park teachers, some private parks can help parents watch their children until six or seven in the evening. Public parks also have stricter rules on the age for children to enter school. They must be over 3 years old. Some private parks will be relatively relaxed, which brings a lot of convenience to some busy parents “.
70.3 of the parents interviewed valued kindergarten safety management most.
According to the survey, the three most important aspects of parents who send their children to kindergarten are that campus safety management is in place (70.3%) and food hygiene is guaranteed (68.2%) teachers graduated from regular preschool education (64.7%).
Other factors valued by parents of children interviewed include: perfect facilities and good environment (45.2%), reasonable expenses (42.7%), scientific curriculum design (42.6%), it is connected with primary school (35.2%), close to home (29.7%), moderate class (23.6%), Public (15.0%) and famous (10.1), etc.
Fu Wei, who works in Haidian district, Beijing, has a two-year-old child. Now, he is worrying about his children entering the park. “The child is a foreign registered permanent residence, and there is definitely no hope to enter the public park. I have seen some private parks, and the reliable tuition fees are generally over 3,000 yuan. The tuition fees of famous foreign teachers can reach thousands or even tens of thousands of yuan. Our husband and wife’s salary add up to 10,005 a month, and they have to bear the rent, Home House loan and daily expenses, which are under great pressure “.
Fu Wei also learned about some public parks: “I have a colleague who asks my child to find a quota for a public park. The sponsorship fee for one year is 10000. I heard that the sponsorship fee of a good public park can be 100000 yuan or more in 3 years. I think this level has caught up with the private Noble Park. Even so, many people can’t get in even if they break their heads.” He said that he was a little confused about whether he should invest so much in children’s preschool education. “But it must be true that the kindergarten tuition is too high now”.
In 2014, “opinions on implementing the second three-year action plan for preschool education” proposed that in 2016, a pre-school education service network with public parks and inclusive private parks as the main body was initially established.
Inclusive private kindergartens refer to private kindergartens whose setting conditions and quality of conservation education reach the level of similar public kindergartens, are entrusted or funded by the government to provide pre-school education, and implement the charging standards of similar public kindergartens. At present, 18 provinces such as Ningxia, Yunnan and Sichuan put forward “expanding the coverage of inclusive kindergartens” and “supporting the development of inclusive kindergartens” in the “10th Five-Year Plan” proposal “.
During the national two sessions last year, Yuan Guiren, minister of education, proposed to vigorously develop public kindergartens, actively support enterprises and institutions to hold kindergartens, adopt government purchasing measures to support private kindergartens, and set up preschool classes in conditional primary schools.
What kind of kindergarten do parents most support? According to the survey, the Education Department (75.9%) has the highest support rate, followed by primary and secondary schools (50.7%), followed by streets and communities (43.5%) and employers (17.9%) and private (7.1%), etc.
Gao Kexin hopes that pre-school education can be incorporated into the compulsory education system as soon as possible. “More and more parents are aware of the importance of preschool education. Most parents certainly want their children to enter formal kindergartens as much as possible, with guaranteed teachers’ level and reasonable expenses. If it is difficult to fully integrate preschool education into the compulsory education system at present, it is also hoped that the government can continuously plus-sized financial investment in this aspect and reduce the burden on parents “.
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with the implementation of the comprehensive “two-child” policy, the problem of children’s difficulty in entering the kindergarten has caused more worries. Some unlicensed kindergartens have opened one after another. Although there are various potential safety hazards and poor conditions for running schools, there are still parents who send their children to study. Measures taken in many regions