"100 empty milk cartons for 28 yuan including shipping", netizens: this is too crazy
2024-08-14
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Empty milk cartons being sold on second-hand online platforms
Empty milk cartons, cut open, washed and dried, 28 yuan for 100 pieces with free shipping; empty pen refills, truly used up and no ink is added, 21.14 yuan for 100 pieces... According to a report by Beijing Youth Daily, many schools in many places require students to collect empty milk cartons every month for the purpose of environmental education, and regard it as a homework. Some students fail to complete the task, forcing parents to purchase the "homework" online, which in turn gave birth to the above-mentioned products.
Some netizens believe that the starting point and original intention of the school to carry out environmental education and assign students homework on environmental protection themes is good. However, the "educational disease" of assigning homework for any kind of education needs to be cured. This will not only increase the homework burden of students and the homework anxiety of parents, but also lead to the alienation of education and homework into formalism.
Formalism in homework must be cured
On the surface, the school's environmental education and environmental homework assignments are an innovation in homework. They are no longer just written homework, but practical and exploratory homework. However, does collecting empty milk cartons and empty pen refills have any practical educational significance? Moreover, this kind of homework can easily become a formality for parents to deal with, and they buy empty milk cartons and empty pen refills online.
Obviously, if schools do not promote relevant education in depth and only assign homework to students, this will make these educations remain at the conceptual level. For example, environmental education should be carried out by schools to cultivate students' environmental awareness in classroom teaching and organize students to explore in school club activities and after-school activities. However, the environmental education carried out by some schools is to let students pick up garbage and recycle waste. How can this be considered modern environmental education?
In the face of the current chaos in homework, we must reverse the formalistic tendency of replacing education with homework and assigning homework at will. For the educational reform and homework innovation promoted by schools, we should not look at the superficial "results", but strengthen the process evaluation, that is, pay attention to the process of schools carrying out relevant education and students' process education experience.
