It’s okay to call me Xiong Taihang | The duty system for elementary school students standing at the gate should be completely abolished

A video has been circulating online these past few days, showing a primary school in Hangzhou. When a teacher drove into the school, the students on duty shouted, “Good morning, teacher!”

The teacher drove straight in without any response.

This video came out, and everyone condemned the teacher for being impolite.

The reason is also simple:

When the children greet you, you should stop the car, roll down the window, and say with a smile: “Good morning, students.”

When they salute you, you return the salute to the children, that’s fair and reasonable.

But there are difficulties in reality, mainly for safety reasons.

For example, Article 47 of the “Regulations on Internal Affairs of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army” stipulates that saluting is not required when riding in vehicles and elevators.

When the leader’s car enters the camp gate, the officer sits in the car, the sentry salutes, and the officer does not need to return the salute in the car.

If we compare this regulation, then the teacher should not return the salute to the students on duty at the door, especially since the teacher’s situation is different from the leader’s.

The leader cannot drive himself, he has a driver. Teachers cannot afford a full-time driver, they all drive themselves. If you greet the students with a smile, it will distract you. If you don’t see someone in front of you and hurt someone, it will be a big problem.

Today’s comment in the Southern Metropolis Daily hit the nail on the head:

Some schools don’t do a good job of separating people and vehicles. The students on duty should stand at the pedestrian gate, and it’s best not to drive through. It’s also a considerable risk for teachers to drive through the gate where children are standing.

So the question is, what should we do if the campus is very small and there is no second gate nearby?

It’s simple, cancel the duty system for elementary school students at the gate!

This superficial and meaningless system should be canceled.

First, this thing has extra risks;

Second, there are already very mature technologies that can replace the children’s efforts.

First, let’s talk about the extra risks.

The current society is not so peaceful, and there have always been violent acts against children. If you let the children stand at the gate, a bad person comes over with the accelerator, or is going to hurt these children with some dangerous items, what should the children do?

You gave the children a red armband, right? This thing is not Doraemon’s reflective cloak or Jiang Ziya’s apricot yellow flag. It has no defensive power except to scare other honest children.

Then talk about mature technology.

What can elementary school students check? It’s the school uniform and the red scarf.

This thing can be solved with a camera, and the campus cameras can recognize faces very well, and can directly recognize whose face is not wearing a red scarf or school uniform, and push it to the homeroom teacher’s phone.

There is no need to find a few children standing at the door, and to ask the other person’s name if they are not wearing it. It’s a primitive society’s method, making people laugh.

Something that has extra risks and has a perfect alternative, why do you have to insist on doing it?

It can only be understood as backward thinking, or that the leaders like it.

It has always been done in the past, so it is still done, this is backward thinking.

I feel that mobilizing some children to be on duty can use students to fight students, increase the sense of ownership, let students learn to report, and feel that they are of one mind with the school leaders, this is what the leaders like.

These meaningless things, get rid of them as soon as possible, save more links, and reduce the children’s efforts.

Why doesn’t anyone check the red scarf in junior high school? Because everyone has withdrawn from the team.

Without the red scarf, will this person not study? Of course not, everyone studies harder.

Why don’t high schools arrange for students on duty to report small reports? Because high school students who don’t like to wear school uniforms are too strong in combat, and the students on duty will be beaten very badly.

There are more serious things, and the fancy things are less. Reduce the messy things within the scope of authority as soon as possible, this is called benevolent governance.

I thank you on behalf of the children.