going to the toilet has become a "major violation of discipline". such school rules should be "self-examined"
2024-09-18
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□chen qi (jinggangshan university)
recently, a high school student in huairen city, shanxi province, was given a serious warning by the school for going to the toilet at night, and was required to print 1,000 copies of "self-awareness" at his own expense and distribute them, which sparked heated discussions. on september 18, the huairen city education bureau responded that the relevant punishment was inappropriate and the school had refunded the student 100 yuan for the printing fee. (jimu news, september 18)
as the student wrote in his self-review, there is no order without rules. it is understandable that the school has formulated corresponding rules and regulations in order to better manage students. according to the response of the staff of the school's moral education department, the school ends evening self-study at 10:20 every night and turns off the lights at 10:45. according to regulations, students are not allowed to go to the toilet or walk around at will from the time the lights are turned off to 11:40, except in special circumstances, "for fear of disturbing other students' sleep." from the perspective of school administrators, this move is actually to create a quiet sleeping environment for students from the time the lights are turned off to 11:40.
however, such school rules are obviously against common sense and reveal a weird and distorted feeling everywhere. the punished student wrote in his self-review: "this is due to my own reasons. i did not arrange my own plan well." i wonder what the school staff thought when they reviewed this self-review? people have three urgent needs. it is really difficult to make a plan for going to the toilet and even complete it within the specified time. to put it bluntly, this is actually for the convenience of management by the school, thus depriving students of the convenience of life. rather than asking students who violate school rules to self-review, it is better to say that such school rules should be "self-reviewed".
in addition, requiring students to print 1,000 copies of apology at their own expense and distribute them is far more than inappropriate. it is the students' obligation to obey necessary management while studying in school, but this does not mean that the school can arbitrarily impose excessive punishment. if apology letters with students' names and classes are printed and distributed, where will the students' personal dignity be placed? school staff should understand that they are educators first and managers second. without the most basic care and empathy of educators, and only pursuing convenient and efficient management, such behavior of putting the cart before the horse is doomed to fail in the long run.
of course, we should also see that the school administrators cannot be unaware of the fact that going to the toilet cannot be done according to plan. the school's "knowing that it cannot be done but doing it anyway" is still an emergency measure under the education tied to educational performance. people have three urgent needs, but in many schools, teaching has only one urgent need, which is test scores. the pressure of further study has compressed the time of high school to the extreme. the school ends evening self-study at 10:20 every night, and the time to get up the next day must not be later. in order to allow students to have enough sleep time to cope with the learning tasks of the next day, the school has come up with this countermeasure, exchanging students' freedom to go to the toilet for management efficiency.
the school rules of the school involved have sparked controversy, but the lack of freedom hidden behind them is not an isolated case. even if the school does not formulate school rules, under the highly compressed time, what can be done has already been determined. it is easy to question the school rules, but it is not easy to ask for freedom from the high school. in this incident, the school used school rules to concretize the restrictions on high school freedom. but in reality, in high school life where every second counts, restrictions on freedom have always been common. in the context of education where the admission rate is the baton, there is a certain conflict between freedom and admission, but how to enable students to properly handle the relationship between freedom and admission is not also an important issue for educators?
recently, a media outlet published an article titled "are you free when you go to college?", which pointed out that college is not a paradise of freedom and reminded college students to treat college life correctly. this is indeed true, but many times, college students may be intentionally or unintentionally asking for freedom back from high school. this is an objective problem in the process of educational transition, that is, transitioning from one extreme to another. one thing that should be acknowledged is that most students are squeezing out their freedom in high school, so that they frantically absorb freedom in college. how to correct this, both to take back some of the excessive "freedom" in college and to give up some of the excessive "freedom" in high school, is the real way to balance, and it is also where our education needs to be improved.
