What is the double deduction policy for primary school students?

Reducing the excessive homework burden and off-campus training burden on students in compulsory education (referred to as "double reduction").

1. What is the Ministry of Education’s double reduction policy?

1. Comprehensively reduce the total amount and duration of homework to reduce students’ excessive homework burden. Improve the operation management mechanism, reasonably regulate the operation structure, classify and clarify the total amount of operations, improve the quality of operation design, and strengthen guidance on operation completion. It is strictly prohibited to require students to mark and correct their own homework. It is strictly forbidden to assign homework to parents or assign homework in disguise. It is strictly forbidden to ask parents to check and correct homework.

2. Improve the school’s after-school service level to meet the diverse needs of students. In principle, the end time of after-school services should not be earlier than the local normal working hours, and the school can make overall arrangements for teachers to implement a "flexible commuting system". Improve the quality of after-school services and enhance the attractiveness of after-school services. Expand after-school service channels, strengthen and improve free online learning services, and actively create conditions to organize outstanding teachers to carry out free online interactive communication and Q&A.

3. Adhere to strict management and comprehensively standardize off-campus training behavior. All localities will no longer approve new subject-based off-campus training institutions for students in compulsory education. Existing subject-based training institutions will be uniformly registered as non-profit institutions. Online subject-based institutions will be changed to an approval system. All subject-based training institutions are not allowed to go public for financing. , strictly prohibit capitalized operations, formulate standards and strictly review and approve non-disciplinary training institutions. Standardize training service activities and establish a training content filing and supervision system. Off-campus training institutions are not allowed to use national statutory holidays, rest days, winter and summer vacations to organize subject-based training. Strengthen the supervision of normal operations. Financing and fees charged by training institutions should be mainly used for training business. Unfair competition is resolutely prohibited. It is strictly prohibited to hire foreign personnel overseas to carry out training activities.

4. Vigorously improve the quality of education and teaching to ensure that students learn enough in school. Promote the high-quality and balanced development of compulsory education, fully stimulate the vitality of school running, and improve the overall level of school running. Improve the quality of classroom teaching, teach in strict accordance with curriculum standards from scratch, and implement a graded system for examination results. Deepen the reform of high school enrollment, gradually increase the proportion of high-quality general high school enrollment indicators allocated to junior high schools in the region, and standardize the order of general high school enrollment.

5. Strengthen supporting governance and improve support capabilities. Guarantee the conditions of school after-school services, coordinate and approve the establishment, staff and staff sufficient teachers, and formulate measures to guarantee school after-school service funds to ensure that funds are raised in place. After-school service funds are mainly used to subsidize teachers and related personnel who participate in after-school services. We must do a good job in controlling training advertisements. Mainstream media, new media, public places, various billboards in residential areas, and online platforms will not publish or broadcast off-campus training advertisements.

2. When will the Ministry of Education’s double reduction policy be implemented?

In late July 2021, all parts of the country began to implement the "double reduction" policy. Many well-known tutoring institutions suddenly disappeared within a few days of the promulgation of the "double reduction" policy. Summer care classes began to replace the status of these tutoring institutions, and they quietly appeared during the summer vacation.

The "double reduction" policy is to reduce students' learning pressure and reduce the burden of homework and extracurricular tutoring during compulsory education.

Many students in compulsory education often fail to finish their homework at night, and often finish their homework in almost early morning. In this regard, the education department also stipulates that students in compulsory education must do their homework. Time constraints on this.

First of all, teachers cannot give homework to students in the first and second grades of elementary school. Secondly, there are students in the third, fourth, fifth and sixth grade of elementary school. The content stipulates that their homework must be completed within an hour. Finally, for junior high school students, they should not take more than one and a half hours to complete their homework.

In addition to these time regulations, the relevant education department also stipulates that students cannot do punitive related homework. For example: because the overall completion of students' homework is not good, the whole class is asked to complete it twice as much tonight. , this can be regarded as punitive homework, which is also not allowed. Teachers also cannot assign homework to parents.

Legal Basis

"Law on the Protection of Minors"

Article 33, schools should cooperate with parents or other guardians of minor students, Reasonably arrange the study time of minor students to ensure their time for rest, entertainment and physical exercise.

Schools are not allowed to use national statutory holidays, rest days and winter and summer vacations to organize collective make-up classes for underage students in the compulsory education stage to increase their learning burden.

Kindergartens and off-campus training institutions are not allowed to provide primary school curriculum education to preschool minors.