No one cares about kindergarten education fees. Parents call for a unified charging standard.
Our reporter Zhang reports: When the reform of education fees is directed at primary schools and universities, preschool education-kindergarten seems to be neglected. However, the reporter found in the actual interview that Shantou's parents spent no less than four years of tuition for a college student. Faced with such high fees, parents of young children call on kindergartens to unify the fees as soon as possible and implement standardized management like primary schools.
Children going to kindergarten is the biggest expense in the family.
Sister Weng's son just entered the first grade of primary school last year. When he heard the interview topic, he immediately took out a thick stack of receipts from the cupboard. "This is most of the receipt of my son's three-year kindergarten." The reporter took it out and counted it There are 38 cards in total, and there are many charges, including tuition, transportation, meals, interest class tuition, dinner, garden service, full-time nursery, purchasing fees and so on. The total adds up to 29,220 yuan. Sister Weng said helplessly, "This is only the majority of the receipt. The total cost of three years must be more than 30 thousand yuan. However, my son's kindergarten is bilingual and the price is relatively expensive. After all, preschool education is sloppy. "
At present, Ms. Xie, whose daughter is receiving Montessori education in a private kindergarten, talks about her daughter's tuition, spreading her five fingers and saying, "The tuition fee just paid on the eleventh day of the first month, 5000 yuan, can be recovered 100 yuan." On the list of expenses, several expenses are listed, including 3,600 yuan for education, 200 yuan for school and daily necessities, and 1 100 yuan for meals. When the reporter lamented the high kindergarten fees, Ms. Xie listed several fees. "This is not enough! The kindergarten also opened an interest class on Saturday. My daughter studied dance in the morning, art in the afternoon, and had a meal in the kindergarten at noon, and she had to pay 736 yuan more for a semester. Besides, the garden clothes have to be handed in again. I bought her a set of sportswear for 80 yuan last semester, and at least two sets of summer clothes and winter clothes should be bought separately. I heard that the whole set was bought for more than 800 yuan. " Ms. Xie said: "My daughter's current tuition is the biggest expense at home. Fortunately, we don't have to pay for the building and car now. How else can we afford that tuition? "
Private kindergartens charge so much, but what about public kindergartens? One person (this article is from the first model website, please keep this mark when reprinting. ) Ms. Su, the parent of her daughter who attends the preparatory class in the government kindergarten in the old city, told the reporter that she has to pay more than 2,800 yuan a semester at most, including teaching 1.420 yuan, physical examination 200 yuan, interest class 400 yuan, and eating 300 yuan every month. "Our fees are at a medium level. Those private kindergartens with good facilities in the eastern district take three or four thousand, and some have more than 800. "
Parents call for a unified charging standard.
During the interview, many parents expressed their doubts: "Now the problem of arbitrary charges in primary and secondary schools has been controlled, and the high tuition fees in universities have begun to be supervised, but who will manage the arbitrary charges in preschool education?" Another parent said: "Now the government encourages private education, but now it only evaluates teaching hardware facilities, and less evaluates soft conditions such as teaching effect and children's development. It seems that if the hardware conditions are good, the charges should be high. Who will manage these? " "Now that compulsory education is completely free, I really hope that the fees for kindergartens can also be reduced." Teacher Lin's words may represent the voice of some people: it is precisely because parents are more and more aware of the importance of preschool education to life that they have become the promoters of high fees in kindergartens to a certain extent. "I hope that the government can introduce a unified charging standard to make the fees of kindergartens more standardized and let the people enjoy more affordable early childhood education."
The price department says kindergarten fees are regulated by the market.
Regarding the charging standards for kindergartens, Ke Su, the charging management department of the Municipal Price Bureau, said that kindergartens are not within the scope of compulsory education at present, and there is no unified charging standard. In addition to several public kindergartens with financial allocations in our city, private kindergartens are all set by themselves and then reported to the price department for the record. Su said that at present, kindergartens are rich in degrees, so kindergartens are in a state of free competition in the market, and the amount of their fees is naturally regulated by the market. Zhang, from the Basic Education Section of the Municipal Education Bureau, said that they are macro-managing kindergartens, rating them according to the standards issued by the province, and charging them according to the rating.
Investigation on the chaos of kindergarten fees: parents are quite willing to pay 30 thousand at a time
Burning money in kindergarten
Chronology of kindergarten fees
Reporter Peng Xiaoyun Intern Zhang Jinling
Speaking of the scene of going to kindergarten that year, the wheat field only vaguely remembers that it was a kindergarten called Guangxi Department of Commerce. Yes 1973. Parents in the wheat field are busy at work, and grandparents can't get away in the country. My parents have to send their four-year-old twin sons to kindergarten, where they take full-time care and can only go home on Sundays every week. However, the wheat field is still very happy. What impressed me deeply was that the wheat field got up earlier than my brother and other children every day, but it couldn't get up. What should I do? He lay in bed and watched the sky change from red to bright outside the window.
In those days, I spent most of my time playing except learning a few words. I can't remember the specific charge of the wheat field, but he remembers that my parents' wages were only 36.5 yuan at that time. "Kindergarten tuition is only a few dollars." Maitian now lives in a large residential area with beautiful environment in Panyu, Guangzhou, and has a fixed job. The salary has changed from the double digits of parents in the past to the five digits today. However, when it comes to the current kindergarten fees, the wheat field still feels expensive. "Fortunately, I only have one child, and I can only recognize it no matter how expensive it is." The daughter of the wheat field is now attending a bilingual kindergarten, which costs 3,800 yuan per month, not counting the cost of clothes and props needed for various performances.
Wheat field home three generations have attended kindergarten, but this has not become their * * * topic. "Whether it is learning, gaming experience or charging, there is really no comparability." The wheat field said.
Welfare in late Qing dynasty
Compared with today's sky-high kindergartens, kindergartens founded in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China are welfare institutions.
Data show that the real preschool education in China first appeared in the late Qing Dynasty. 1In September, 903, with the support of Zhang Zhidong, Governor of Huguang, Governor Duan Fang of Hubei Province founded Hubei Kindergarten in Wuchang Ordinary Primary School, which was later renamed as Foster Home. This is a public kindergarten and the beginning of preschool education institutions in China. Since then, a number of government-run specialized children's social education institutions have appeared one after another, which shows that the children's education institutions at that time were supported by government finance. 1904, the Qing government promulgated the first regulation covering preschool education in China-Guimao academic system, which determined the position of preschool education in the academic system. In the regulations, it is suggested that local governments provide funds for kindergartens every year and "pay extra preferential wages every month" for those who can read and teach. This charter also marks the beginning of the financial support of the China government for the early childhood education policy in modern times.
Institutions and units are not profitable
After 1949, our government took the former Soviet Union as a model. At the initiative of the State Council, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health, industrial and mining enterprises have independently or jointly established nurseries and kindergartens for employees' children according to needs and possible principles; In rural areas, agricultural production cooperatives or mutual aid groups have organized seasonal and temporary nurseries and kindergartens; The education department has set up a model kindergarten. At that time, kindergartens were welfare. Later, nurseries and kindergartens were generally set up in institutions, factories and streets in Guangzhou, so that parents could concentrate more on production. Aunt Zhang and Aunt He, who are in their 70s, were workers in a factory in Guangzhou in the 1960s. The two old people recalled that because the factory was very busy, they had to study documents after work and had no time to take care of their children, so they left their children in the kindergarten of the factory. At that time, the unit will give appropriate subsidies to its own kindergartens, so the commission fee is very cheap. Aunt Zhang recalled that in the early 1960s, it was about 15 yuan, with food and shelter. Aunt He's daughter went to the "Qianjin Kindergarten" at that time, and the tuition fee was not high.
Mr. Huang, who lives in Guangzhou, has been engaged in preschool education for over 30 years. After graduating from preschool education, I worked as a teacher and director in the former Guangzhou No.1 Cotton Textile Factory until my retirement. Teacher Huang recalled that 1962, Guangzhou No.1 Cotton Textile Factory opened "Yuequn Kindergarten", which was basically not for profit. Parents only need to pay a small amount of tuition fees, and the part with insufficient funds is subsidized by the factory. The factory also fully supports the renovation of hardware facilities in kindergartens. 1965 after the establishment of the new kindergarten, the area has expanded a lot. Outdoor activities alone have more than 1000 square meters. The children's bedroom is a well-equipped room, with one bed for each person, bathroom and toilet.
The market economy bears a heavy burden.
Later, the system began to reform, and the role of market factors was increasingly strengthened; The reform of enterprises, institutions and government institutions was carried out in turn; Basic education began to adjust the decentralization system; China's welfare undertakings, the soil on which preschool education depends, have also embarked on the process of socialization. The financial investment mechanism of dependent preschool education formed under the planned economy has also collapsed rapidly, facing new choices.
Free education as a welfare system has also come to an end. According to the principle of market economy, you should pay for enjoying consumption. The charging standards for private preschool education in various places were first liberalized. The range of fees is also expanding, and the level of fees between kindergartens is also widening. Secondly, the standard of tuition and fees for public kindergartens is also moderately liberalized, allowing kindergartens to set their own prices within a certain range, and recruiting children can charge a certain amount of sponsorship fees.
Since the middle and late 1980s, preschool education fees have been linked to the quality of education, and many parts of the country began to determine fees according to the level and category of kindergartens. In some large and medium-sized cities and coastal areas in China, the cost of running kindergartens has been calculated and the policy of charging according to the cost of education has been formulated. "Cost sharing" has become the inevitable trend of the development of preschool education charging policy in China.
This means that parents and children have to "pay the bill" themselves, especially when attending private or private kindergartens, and the share of cost sharing is greater. Preschool education originally belongs to the non-compulsory education stage, and kindergartens can justly ask for "cost sharing" sponsorship fees, teaching fees, tuition fees, interest classes and many other expenses, which are dazzling.
According to a statistical bulletin of national education development, only about 210.8 million preschool children aged 3 -6 in China attended kindergarten in the last year or two, that is to say, 60% preschool children in China failed to attend kindergarten. In fact, from 1995 to nearly 10, all the indicators of preschool education, including the enrollment rate of school-age children and preschool teachers, have been declining year by year. However, kindergarten fees are rising, far exceeding the affordability of ordinary wage earners. According to a survey conducted by reporters in several major communities in Guangzhou, less than 10% of the people in the community supporting kindergartens charge affordable fees.
In Beijing, 90% of the more than 300 kindergartens in/kloc-0 are run by the people. Some experts believe that when preschool education becomes an industry, the price lever of supply and demand begins to appear. Preschool education resources are in short supply, which is completely in the seller's market.
Just like Zhou Yu playing Huang Gai, some parents think that no matter how poor and bitter they are, they can't suffer their children. The neighbor's doll can recite Tang poems and draw pictures at the age of three. As a parent, can you not worry? Under the psychological effect of work pressure and eager for children to win at the starting line early, parents can only squeeze into quality kindergartens. A little cheaper kindergarten, I'm afraid the hardware and software are not enough. Of course, there are not many cheap kindergartens waiting for you to sign up.
It is reported that in Guangzhou, Shanghai and other big cities, kindergartens charge more than 1000 yuan a month, or even thousands of yuan, and they are late, so there is no room to stand aside. According to Jinling Evening News, there was a "grand occasion" in front of a kindergarten, and nearly 100 parents lined up to register in the rain. This "grand occasion" is staged almost every year. The kindergarten staff advised the parents waiting in line behind not to wait, and the parents didn't listen at all. So there is such a phenomenon. It is too late to squeeze a wooden bridge in the college entrance examination. Before children go to school, they will squeeze the wooden bridge in kindergarten first. The price of kindergartens has gradually increased, and there are more and more charging items. It is inevitable to charge more, and it is also inevitable to try to find a cost-effective kindergarten.
3-year-old Fan Jin Reunion
Reporter: Zhang Shougang reports from Beijing.
On the day of posting, Yu Ying was very excited when he saw Xiaoke's name. "You may be a little hard to understand, that kind of feeling ... well, it's like Fan Jinzhong's move, or like Xiaoke being admitted to Peking University. I have never felt this way. "
Last March, Yu Ying "suddenly fainted" when she heard that the kindergarten downstairs was full.
My daughter can be two and a half years old and must go to kindergarten in the second half of the year. In the following March and April, Yu Ying, the young mother, was in a nervous state, and finding a kindergarten became a task that she had to complete. Disappointed, pleading, surprised, expecting ... In those two months, she experienced so many emotions and finally had a little joy and willingness.
Kindergarten, I must find it.
As early as the beginning of last year, Yu Ying began to look for kindergartens for Xiao Ke, who just turned two. What kind of kindergarten is good? Someone told her: "As long as it is close to home, it is a treasure". Because the three-year kindergarten is too far away to pick up and drop off every day, no matter how good the kindergarten is, it is also trouble.
Yu Ying has never worried about kindergarten. Next to her home is the large kindergarten of Tomorrow Naive Group, which has not only day care, but also full-time care. "It's too close to us. It's only a minute's walk. That kindergarten is difficult to enter and the fees are quite expensive. Every month 1200 yuan. "
One day in March, Xiaoke's grandmother came back from the outside in a panic, saying that a notice had been posted at the entrance of the kindergarten, saying when to register, and the registration time had passed. "I suddenly feel dizzy! Although it is right next door to me, I missed the registration time by car or by bike! "
Anxious Yu Ying began to call, and the kindergarten doorman who answered the phone was "in a mess". "He said he was full. I said we live next door to you. Can you take care of it? Because kindergarten is the principle of proximity. He said that there was no way, and he simply refused me. "
After being rejected by this kindergarten, Yu Ying said that she really "panicked" and started to run other kindergartens. Around her home, there are several kindergartens, one is the kindergarten affiliated to the Third Hospital of Beijing Medical University, the other is the September 1st kindergarten with military background, and the other is the experimental kindergarten affiliated to Beijing Normal University.
Yu Ying went to Beijing Normal University first. Fortunately, it's not full yet, and she can still sign up. "Where is smart here? It doesn't set a final time for you, but you can hand in 10 yuan as long as you don't have time for the exam. " Yu Ying spent 10 yuan signing his daughter's autograph.
There is still a period of time before the exam. Yu Ying went to three other kindergartens, and the directors of these kindergartens personally warmly received them. "Why? These students are all short of students, trying to pull you. Beijing Medical College costs about 800 a month. They really said that their students are all children of Beijing Medical University, with high quality, and children selling vegetables can't get in. "
She also went to the famous red, yellow and blue kindergarten in Beijing, which charges a lot. Yu Ying remembers that it seems to be 1500, and the annual fee is eighteen thousand. This modern kindergarten left an excellent impression on Yu Ying: "The reception room has floor-to-ceiling glass, just like the sales office. The teachers are all young and beautiful. Even the chefs in the kitchen are of high quality and the clothes are clean. " Yu Ying's 9 1 kindergarten was left at the scene. "The place is too small and very simple."
It's nice to pay 30 thousand yuan
Yu Ying and her daughter Xiao Ke finally waited for the exam of the experimental kindergarten affiliated to Beijing Normal University.
Before she went, she consulted an old classmate whose child failed the exam. "I asked why I didn't pass? He said it was not a test for children, but for parents. He will ask what would you do if the child was injured? My classmate said, of course, it is the responsibility of the kindergarten. It's time to lose money. "
Yu Ying estimated that it was these words that made the children of old classmates fail in the exam.
On the day of the exam, there were many people. Xiaoke should have a physical examination and weigh himself first. If his height and weight are not up to standard, he may be eliminated. Go upstairs after the investigation. Children should be separated from adults. Yu Ying said to Xiao Ke, "Why don't you go with your aunt?" Xiaoke went very happily because there were many toys in the room she was going to.
Yu Ying and her husband went to another room and began their own "exam". The examiner is the executive vice president. Fill in the form first, including work, age and education mode, and then the vice president begins to ask about some children, such as who takes care of them at home. "Children brought by grandparents don't like to receive kindergartens, followed by parents, who like to receive children brought by aunts, because aunts are not particularly good to children, and children will take care of them after entering the park."
Sure enough, I asked that question: What would you do if parents took their children to play in kindergartens and there were problems with those game facilities?
Yu Ying was prepared, and she answered frankly, "Every parent doesn't want their children to get hurt. In case of injury, first of all, send him to the hospital immediately, and then solve the problem calmly. Even with the children at home, I fell over her twice, which is inevitable. I think we should solve this problem calmly and rationally. "
When Yu Ying finished, the examiner smiled at her. The question of fees was also mentioned in the interview. The sponsorship fee for this kindergarten is 30 thousand for three years. If the child is admitted, he will have sex once when he registers, and then there will be a little child care fee every month, about four or five hundred yuan. "The dean said that the milk the child ate must have been delivered that morning. Eggs must be Deqing source brand eggs, and the teaching AIDS used are imported from the United States. At that time, the director was a female doctor of Beijing Normal University. In short, I talked a lot about their benefits. "
Xiaoke was also being interviewed when Ying and his wife answered the examiner's questions. There are five teachers in a classroom, and each teacher brings a notebook. In observing a certain aspect of the child, he makes relevant records and scores. "Xiaoke had a good time. Later, when she saw me coming, she put the toys away as I told her. When I said goodbye to the teacher, she went back to say goodbye to the teacher. She did very well that day. "
Yu Ying doesn't know how many people went that day. "Only 200 children. The number we have taken is already 600, and there are people behind. " On the day of posting, Yu Ying rushed to the kindergarten gate at eight o'clock to read the list. She was very excited to see Xiao Ke's name. "You may be a little hard to understand, that kind of feeling ... well, it's like Fan Jinzhong's move, or like Xiaoke being admitted to Peking University. I have never felt this way. "
She regretted not bringing her camera that day. "This is the first time Xiaoke has won the prize in my life!"
In this way, I chose a kindergarten for Xiaoke, and I had sex for 30 thousand yuan. "I am very willing to pay the money. Just because she won, my grandparents were very happy. They all say that this child is very good. "
Yu Ying thinks this price is acceptable, because she knows that those completely private kindergartens charge more. (Source: Du Nan Weekly)