Why excellent teachers are unwilling to teach in rural areas: frontline teachers reveal the real reasons

As is well known, rural education is a weak spot in China's education system. The reasons are many, and one of the main ones is that excellent teachers are unwilling to go to rural areas to teach, and rural areas cannot retain teachers.

These past two days I received an article from Teacher Shi Huatong, which asked: "Why are excellent teachers unwilling to teach in rural areas?"

The article says that rural teachers have small bonuses, poor housing or even no housing, poor office conditions, long roads and inconvenient transportation, poor living conditions, no way to earn money from paid tutoring, loneliness and isolation, inconvenient daily life, loss of face, ... and so on. In short, teachers feel that they lose out in rural areas and benefit in cities.

An even more serious problem is that some administrators use the power in their hands to deliberately transfer excellent teachers to key urban schools, artificially concentrating excellent teachers in key urban schools, and artificially creating an imbalance in teacher resources!! In this way, artificial action plus objectively unfair conditions have created an extreme imbalance in teacher resources, namely a shortage of rural teachers and overstaffing of urban teachers.

The article argues that there are two solutions: first, improve relevant laws and regulations, regulate administrative power, and supervise the exercise of power. Second, resolve the problem of unfair benefits, and even implement macro-control so that benefits tilt toward rural teachers.

With these two solutions, teacher resources would naturally become balanced. But some administrators always want to use privileges and coercive means such as "rotation transfers" and "county-managed school employment" to torment and toy with teachers!

The article questions: can things be done well without constrained power? Facts have proven that some illegal incidents are very serious, and clustered and linked cases occur frequently. If administrators are given absolute power, then educational resources will become even more unbalanced and the problems will become even more serious!

Montesquieu believed that power without checks inevitably leads to corruption, and absolute power leads to absolute corruption. Adopting an advanced management mechanism is an important strategy for solving the current problems. A benefit fairness mechanism is an advanced management mechanism; it is scientific, reasonable, advanced civilization!

Teacher Shi Huatong's article analyzes an important cause of the current plight of rural education. The article concludes that the best way to balance teacher resources is to establish a benefit fairness mechanism. (Thanks to Teacher Shi Huatong)

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