【有文稿】教育部说：幼儿园要让孩子们好好玩

Currently, in order to meet the demands of various primary school entrance exams, lots of kindergartens across the country have started teaching lessons only suitable for primary school students. As a result of this, China's Ministry of Education has issued a new policy banning kindergartens from teaching primary school lessons. According to the policy, kindergartens should be fully engaged in recreational activities with children. (QD) Qian Guifeng applauds this policy on xinhuanet.com, I fully support such a policy. The public have waited for this policy for a long time. The kids nowadays are simply much too tired. When they're as young as two or three years old, they have begun to have lessons at kindergarten. But the priority for kids should be to play around freely, right? Rather than sit in a classroom listening to teachers' preach. That would ruin their nature. (JA) But on news.sina.com.cn, Hong Hai Er is quite pessimistic, Ten years before I had heard about the idea of reducing burden for kindergarten kids. But now they're bearing an even heavier burden. The key issue here is not what new policies the Ministry of Education has made, but how to fully implement the policies it already made. That's the right issue the authorities should seriously think about. (LK) And Skyline_L expresses his point of view on news.qq.com, As a matter of fact, we really shouldn't blame kindergartens for teaching primary school lessons. They have no better choice at the strong requests from parents. The root cause here is the existence of primary school entrance exams. Primary schools are part of China's compulsory education system; actually there should not be any entrance exam at all, which is against the spirit of compulsory education! --------------------------------------------- Notes: -Currently around 67.5 percent of Chinese kids ranging from 3 to 6 years old are enrolled into kindergartens. It's estimated that the rate will reach 75 percent by 2016. -It's mainly kindergartens in the urban area that offer primary school lessons to kids. ---------------------------------------------- (QD) A netizen named Zhezhe's Mother says on weibo.com, I know the kindergarten should be a place for kids to play around. But the reality is cruel. There're too many kids in China. When my son's classmates are studying hard in preparation for entrance examinations of key primary schools, what can I do? Yes I want him to play happily every day, but what about his future? He can't lose out to other kids. (LK) Naruto Lim says on money.163.com, I don't care what new policies the authorities have made. What I care most is how my daughter can go to the best primary school in our district. So I would like to try every means to make her meet the standards of that school. Even if there's really such a harsh policy abolishing all kindergartens from teaching primary school lessons, I will still send her to remedial classes offered by commercial educational institutions to get her well-prepared. (JA) And Ba Gua Chuan Ren points out on bbs.ce.cn, Whoever the policymakers are, they're simply too naïve. Haven't they made clear the national conditions of China? There're a very limited number of excellent primary schools here compared with a large student base. So many kids want to pour into a few key schools. Thus it's the schools which enjoy full advantages and can pick kids in whatever ways they want. It's the uneven distribution of good education resources that directly leads to the high pressure on kindergarten kids as well as their parents, rather than kindergartens themselves.