Chapter 20 The so-called competition
The Iberian education system is a very unique and unique system.
The education system is mainly divided into:
For pre-school education, general education, bachelor's education, higher education and vocational training.
Children between the ages of 2 and 3 can voluntarily attend kindergarten and 4 to 5 years old. Kindergartens in the country are free, as is compulsory universal education (6~16 years old), and transportation and canteens are also free. Universal education is aimed at children between the ages of 6 and 14. Three years of junior primary school, two years of upper primary school, and three years of junior high school. The main primary school subjects are Chinese, Mathematics, Social and Nature Experience, Artistic Expression, Music and Physical Education. Subjects such as humanities and natural sciences, foreign languages, and religion have been added to junior high schools. After completing junior high school, students can choose to enter a comprehensive secondary school (high school, also known as college preparation) or become self-employed.
The Federal Ministry of Education does not have specific requirements or regulations for the content of the courses taught in schools in each school district, the only thing that clearly stipulates is that there is a minimum number of hours per week.
Schools throughout the state are well-equipped in both urban and rural areas, with a variety of activity rooms, sports complexes, and teaching and learning centers, from Madrid to Seville, from Valencia to Barcelona, wherever they are, the impartiality of the school's educational facilities is satisfactory to the students.
The Ministry of Education is also relatively lenient in the management of its schools, except for special circumstances, basically does not make any rigid requirements for the teaching of schools. Therefore, both students and schools in Iberia have great freedom to teach, and most of the students enjoy their own comfortable learning environment and life, and slowly spend their youth.
It was supposed to be like this.
Since the Ministry of Education suddenly proposed to build a new collegiate ship-style joint school in the state that is in line with the rest of the world, this comfortable and harmonious environment no longer exists.
Even in the new era of high economic development, Iberia is not very wealthy compared to the emerging Oriental and New World cultural regions, and even the old Eastern European cultural regions.
The people here have long since lost the pretentiousness and thirst for challenge and exploration that characterized the Age of Discovery. Get used to the ordinary, and be at ease to be forgotten by the tide of the world.
This kind of indifferent thinking can be seen only from the characteristics of their education. From the great educational reform of the last world to the present, there has not been a single modern academy ship in the whole state of Iberia.
While most of the world and schools are moving from the hustle and bustle of the cities to the oceans and seaports, the Iberian schools are still built where their ancestors were, continuing their traditions for the past 100 years.
It was not until the federal government proposed to establish a new type of higher secondary school and college ship school in full line with the federal government.
Seventy liberal colleges in the state's fifty teaching districts will first select half of the higher schools to form the academy ship. The remaining half continues to stay on the ground, waiting for the next wave of school reform.
It's not that the Iberian Ministry of Education is sincere in appealing to the students, it's that the Ministry of Education really doesn't have so much money. It can only undertake the transformation of half of the colleges and universities at one time, and the other half has to wait until the funds for the education reform are enough, as for when the next wave will ...... Who knows?
As a result, the problem arises, and the reality is very obvious. Less than half of the schools and schools in the state have the opportunity to study in modern collegiate ship schools. And the rest will continue to suffer in the backward and outdated schools on the road.
As for the method of selection, it is screened through a unified assessment. But here comes the problem.
Unlike the Eastern education system, the Iberian education system lacks uniform teaching tasks and requirements, and the different curricula taught and the materials used by schools make it difficult to measure the level of students and schools through uniform examinations.
So since it is not possible to evaluate the school uniformly through the general teaching test, it is necessary to find a fair way for students to choose the winner without complaints.
Through more than a year of school surveys and social surveys, the Ministry of Education has selected several more reliable selection methods from more than a dozen proposals put forward by the society and students.
The first is based on the rate of admission to higher education and the rate of employment.
The second is based on the pass rate of students in each school, the third is through a social vote, and the first is originally unanimously recognized by the society, but it was fiercely opposed when the opinions of students were solicited.
This is normal, schools with high employment rates and promotion rates are relatively fixed in any region, and this obvious election method makes the students and parents of non-key schools who receive the news feel very unfair, and are overturned by parents and student protesters in non-metropolitan areas.
The second method of self-assessment of schools was supported by individual schools and students, but in the end it was suppressed by the Federal Ministry of Education.
Is it true that the school has the final say on its own student assessment? Is it possible to count without the slightest standard for the sake of the future of federal education?
What about the social vote? The final reaction is that it is also unreliable, and the social vote decides the fate of the students, so are these students too miserable and pitiful? The vice minister of education, who considered and put forward this proposal, was even blocked by the parents of the excited students, and his home was almost stabbed as a bullfight.
If none of the three work, then the Ministry of Education has to come up with the last plan.
As with other federal schools to select schools for inter-school competition, the annual assessment and acceptance of the educational level and teaching results of each school by the Federal Ministry of Education is the criterion, and schools with unsatisfactory teaching results and poor students' enthusiasm for learning are excluded first.
Then let the schools whose teaching results meet the national standards freely choose what is acceptable to most schools, and the winners can be selected by open evaluation. After more than a year of inter-school surveys and voting statistics.
The method of selection for the first batch of Iberian schools, which had been debated for three years, was finally finalized last spring. Schools that have passed the examination of the students' learning level of the Ministry of Education will select the first batch of academy schools based on the results of the competition between the battle lane and the inter-school joint competition from last summer.
This final election method is the final decision after repeated deliberations by students, schools, and the Ministry of Education, and soliciting public opinions. It not only retains the basic right of the Ministry of Education to audit students' schools, but also ensures the enthusiasm of students and the openness and fairness of competition. The All-Iberian School will begin preparations for the competition three months after the publication of the document.
By the end of this year, the winners will be selected through a one-and-a-half-year competition. There is no obvious difference between the inter-school competitions and the general student sports meeting. These are all common events in modern school competitions, specifically:
There are two parts: the general competition items in the first half of the year and the special competition items in the small half year.
The first half is a regular project, which is:
Long-distance running, sprinting, skiing, shot put, football, basketball, table tennis, and other general sports.
Starting in the second half of the year, there will be those non-conventional special events that students find more exciting and enjoyable:
Team modern pentathlon, team shooting, group martial arts competitions (group fights?!), free sword competitions, free fighting competitions, car rallys, and more......
And the heavy one. The most important and exciting event is the Lane Round-Robin, which will start in the spring and end in the fall.
After several months of running-in and competition, after half a year of survival of the fittest, the students of Iberian schools were actively or passively divided into two camps. Formerly the Ceuta School and the Felanz School, the Seville School Consortium. and the Madrid-Valencia School Alliance, with Madrid and Valencia at its core.
After half a year of regular season competition, the two camps have won over the surrounding schools that have lost to them or taken the initiative to rely on them through various means and victories, and form a joint competition team to compete with each other. Schools that voluntarily join the alliance will automatically forfeit their right to participate independently and will then compete in the name of both camps. Conversely, the games lost and the games won by the team will also be counted towards the team's total score.
Over the past six months, after continuous mergers and reunifications, the two camps have been almost evenly matched and roughly equal.
Back last month, the final game of the regular season was over, and all that remained was the most thrilling non-routine event.
In the regular season, because of the popularity and the convention of previous intercollegiate school competitions, the chariot race will account for 45% of the score, which is almost half of the country. And it's put at the end.
Well, the importance of this final game cannot be overstated.
Winning the lane is basically winning everything, and losing the lane race is losing everything.
Now, the moment has come to decide the fate of the Iberian school.
The time has come for the chariot.