The dominoes effect, from the reduction of birthrate, opinions, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
Recently, the discussion on the reduction in birthrate became the hot topic, over forty-percent of elementary schools had, reduced to having just ONE class each grade level, it’d, caught my attention. Being a member of the realms of education, I can’t help but worried about children’s learning processes: is this, a good way, to learn? Do the kids have enough interactions with their peers? Do the children have enough cultural awareness? If not, what, can we, do about it?
Before 1982, the birthrate each year is over 400,000; back then, there are, sixty, to seventy students per class, and that was, considered, the norm. By the 1990s, the local governments, in order, to improve the quality of education, started expanding the schools, or building more schools, to alleviate the situation of having too many students per class.
And yet, the makeup of community is changed so quickly, as the local counties and cities are, expanding their schools, we were hit, by the reduced birth rates, which cause a lot of the schools to have an excessive number of classrooms, to how there may be just one student in a class, and this is, even more so in the distant areas.
From the angle of the students, going to school, is NOT just to learn the lessons taught by the teachers, having interactions with one’s own peers is, important as well. In learning, as the teacher taught the lessons, the students can, watch others do the demonstrations, or work on the projects, to make sure that s/he has learned, to increase the opportunities of learning; if there’s a reduced number of students in the classes, then, there wouldn’t be, enough of interactions, communications, trading of opinions among the students and their peers. This is, totally, going to, cause the learning process to not be, as effective.
And, the students don’t just learn by sitting in class, but also, in holding the conversations with their peers. They are, exchanging their experiences in life, sharing their families’ goings-on with one another, learning what one another is good at, all of these, are learning outside the class. And yet, as the number of students got reduced per class, all of these instances of modeling, watching each other do things, exchanges, are all, reduced, and, I’m sure, that the students would, suffer for it.
In order to increase the quality of learning of students, a lot of the cities and counties are, considering cutting the classes, and, merging the schools, and yet, this doesn’t get passed, as the opposing became, bigger in number. But, the key characters are the students, and, we should, take into considerations, the quality of lessons offered, the futures of the children, that way, we’d, stayed, focused, on the, purpose of education.
And so, this, is a series of problems, caused by the reduction of birthrates, and, the children in those miniature classes with just one, or two students, will, NOT have enough socialization with the peers, and this is still, due to the impacts from the reduction of birth rates right now.
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