Is it necessary to include students’ vision in education and health assessments?

I personally think it is still very necessary. This suggestion was put forward by representatives of the National People's Congress. The representative suggested innovating the education evaluation mechanism and including students' physical health status, including students' vision, into the students' comprehensive quality evaluation criteria. Some people may feel that this is unfair to those children who are already myopic and suffer from genetic myopia. But we need to see more than just this group of people. We also need to analyze this proposal in detail.

First of all, let’s look at a set of data. Data released by the National Health Commission stated that as early as 2018, the myopia rate among adolescents and children in my country was as high as 53.6. Among them, the myopia rate of 6-year-old children is 14.5, that of primary school students is 36.0, that of junior high school students is 71.6, and that of high school students is 81.0. A rule that seems difficult to get rid of is: the higher the education level, the more serious myopia is. This has fallen into a strange circle, and my country still has a long way to go to prevent and control myopia.

Secondly, many people simply and crudely attribute the cause of myopia in children to the widespread use of electronic products such as mobile phones and computers. In fact, myopia is a disease of modern civilization. Not only is the incidence high in China, but also globally, the incidence of myopia is increasing, and it is trending towards younger ages. Indeed, as technology continues to develop, lifestyles are constantly changing. Modern people inevitably use various electronic products, especially mobile phones for long periods of time. Moreover, in recent years, the functions of mobile phones have been continuously expanded, covering almost all aspects of life such as entertainment, learning, medical care, ordering food, etc. It is no exaggeration to say that mobile phones have become a necessity in modern society.

But children spend most of the day on campus and do not have mobile phones, so why are their rates of myopia increasing?

Let’s take a look. Another set of data released by the National Health Commission: 67% of students spend less than 2 hours a day in outdoor activities, 29% of students spend less than 1 hour; 73% of students sleep less than the standard every day; after-school homework time and continuous close-range use Too much eye time... Therefore, what causes children's myopia is not only mobile phones and computers, but also homework and irregular use of eyes.

So it is very necessary to include students’ vision in the education and health assessment. As Tao Yong said: This is not an assessment for individual students. This assessment is for the education department, including teachers and schools. It can increase everyone's attention to the myopia rate in children, and at the same time, it can gradually improve the children's learning environment and reduce the burden on the children.

For students who are already suffering from myopia or have visual acuity caused by genetic factors, special treatment can be provided for special problems. This suggestion is necessary and feasible to implement, but it cannot be achieved in one step. We need to start by improving the children's learning environment. ?