Public compulsory education is free. Why do so many parents choose to send their children to private schools?

I remember when I was a child, although I also mentioned nine-year compulsory education, I still had to pay tuition and miscellaneous fees at that time. At most, we have to pay three or four hundred yuan a semester. You know, at that time, the salary of a teacher was only one or two hundred and one months, and the tuition and fees of three or four hundred yuan were equivalent to three months' salary. If there are three or four children studying at home, the financial burden will be considerable. So at that time, it was not uncommon for children who could not complete nine-year compulsory education because of poverty and dropping out of school.

Since 2006, China has exempted primary and secondary school students from tuition and miscellaneous fees in rural compulsory education in the western region; In 2007, the middle and eastern regions began to exempt primary and secondary school students from tuition and miscellaneous fees in compulsory education; Since 2008, all primary and secondary school students in compulsory education have been exempted from tuition and miscellaneous fees nationwide. At this point, the free education in the nine-year compulsory education stage has been completed.

Because nine-year compulsory education is free of tuition and miscellaneous fees, it can be realized in principle? 0? For those who charge admission fees, some fees will be charged at the beginning of school, and parents can choose to pay voluntarily. Like what? Insurance premium? A semester is about thirty or fifty yuan. School uniform fee? Charge according to the situation, ranging from several hundred yuan to several tens of yuan; What other supplementary teaching materials are there? The cost of quality education books and the like adds up to almost two or three hundred yuan a semester. If parents voluntarily don't pay these fees, they don't have to pay them.

At present, in the stage of compulsory education in many places, there are some private schools besides public schools. Generally, these schools operate as enterprises, are responsible for their own profits and losses, and aim at making profits. Therefore, tuition and miscellaneous fees are not low, ranging from several thousand yuan to tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands a semester.

Public schools are basically free, while private schools are more expensive. Why do some parents send their children to private schools? What kind of parents send their children to private schools? Actually, there are many situations here. There is a school in our county called. XX Wu Wen school? Our private school, with a tuition fee of about 8,000 yuan a semester, provides full-time services and recruits students from all corners of the country, and there are many students. Their students mainly come from the following sources:

1: Left-behind children whose parents work in other places and no one takes care of them at home. Parents of such students are wandering in other places. In order to let children study in a relatively stable environment, they will choose to put their children in such schools, because such schools have special life teachers to take care of their children's lives and avoid their worries.

2. Some identity-sensitive children will also be sent to such schools, such as what is usually said? Asshole? They have a special status, and their household registration cannot follow their parents, so it is difficult to study in the school district. At this time, their parents will also choose to send their children to such private schools, and there is no strict requirement for household registration.

Of course, private schools not only have this model, but also have high-end routes, which is what we usually call it? Noble school? These schools are to meet the personalized pursuit of children's education by some rich people, and they are the choices of some stars and celebrities. Generally, the name of the school will be higher, such as? XX international school? For example, Li Xiang's daughter Wang Shiling, Tian Liang's daughter Sendie, and Huayi's president Wang Zhonglei's son William all attended international schools in Beijing. The preschool tuition fee is 40,000 ~ 225,000 yuan/year; 1-1grade 2 tuition is 225,000 yuan/year to 293,000 yuan/year. This tuition fee is beyond the reach of ordinary families. Of course, high tuition fees are exchanged for higher quality education.

Now more and more famous schools are beginning to align with the market and start to run so-called "public" schools. Experimental school? Hanging the signboard of public schools, doing the business of private schools, and charging high tuition fees through the aura of famous schools have turned running schools into a commercial behavior.

In the compulsory education stage, public schools are the foundation and ballast stone to take care of educational equity, while private schools are the supplement to meet the special requirements of special people for education. We must not put the cart before the horse and commercialize education.