A junior high school composition 50 yuan, the network emerged ＂to write the economy＂ wonderful business

　　Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 5th Title: 50 yuan, a junior high school composition, has a wonderful business of "writing economy" on the Internet.

　　Xinhua News Agency "China Nets" reporters Yang Siqi and Zhang Duo

　　During the summer vacation, primary and secondary school students’ holiday homework writing business is becoming a hot business, which is launched on major online shopping and social platforms. These schoolwork tasks, which originally belonged to children, have turned into goods that can be delivered online, and have become "cash cows" for "writers", which has aroused the concern of many parents and teachers. The reporter conducted an investigation into this.

　　From a dozen yuan to hundreds of yuan, summer homework business is booming.

　　"Contact customer service consultation — — Inform specific job types — — Determine the price — — Mailing homework — — Pay the required amount — — Start ghostwriting — — I will mail it to you after completion. " A ghostwriting website published such an operation process, and claimed that "professional ghostwriting for primary schools, junior high schools and senior high schools has a correct rate of more than 80%."

　　According to the reporter’s search, many platforms such as Sina Weibo and Baidu Post Bar have summer homework writing business, and the charging standards are different for different types of homework. If you rush to jump the queue, you need to increase the price.

　　Through WeChat, the reporter got in touch with one of the customer service agents who wrote the homework, and asked to write an essay of not less than 500 words on the topic of "I am in the third grade". The other party said that when pricing 50 yuan, 25 yuan’s deposit should be paid first, and the final payment should be paid after the composition is written, and the quantity is large. "Write 3 articles for each 45 yuan and 5 articles for each 40 yuan." The customer service also told reporters that in addition to primary school composition, undergraduate graduation thesis can also be written on behalf of others. The next morning, the customer service sent the written composition to the reporter through WeChat in the form of Word document.

　　An industry insider said that in fact, as early as 2009, such "writing homework" posts appeared in "summer homework bar", and some students posted "kneeling for the answer to summer homework". Nowadays, with the expansion of the ghostwriting business market, its charging standard has also risen, and the average price of completing a workbook has risen from a dozen yuan at first to hundreds of yuan.

　　The reporter found that these websites openly and independently recruit "writers", and some part-time and employment websites also have recruitment information. The "writing economy" has formed a complete industrial chain.

　　At the same time, some college students or high school graduates will also post their own "sideline business" news on social platforms. In the "Shanghai Homework Bar", the landlord "C Little Apple Sauce" said, "The price will go up because of the tight time during the coming school term. I hope everyone will write quickly and don’t miss the cheap opportunity."

　　In order to arouse resonance, many websites have also launched soft articles, such as "My poor summer vacation — — Confessions of a primary school student, etc., through emotional marketing by telling stories. A "professional ghostwriting network" also exposed recent praise records and WeChat transfer payment records.

　　The reporter found that these ghostwriting services can be ghostwritten for daily work except for winter and summer homework.

　　Who gave birth to "ghostwriting economy"?

　　Recently, a parent in Lanzhou City, Gansu Province exposed his son’s summer homework list in the second grade of primary school: "Happy Summer Vacation"; 20 quality diaries; 20 reading records; Practice pen writing; Write and draw once a week; Read extracurricular books every day … …” Some netizens shouted: "This is simply the homework of the second grade of junior high school." "Not only students, but also parents."

　　Yue Long, a professor at Shanghai Normal University, believes that the industrialization and continuous popularity of students’ homework ghostwriting service actually reflects the heavy academic burden of students, and at the same time reveals an impetuous and advanced learning atmosphere.

　　An interviewed junior high school Chinese teacher admitted that some holiday assignments such as "Summer Life" and other workbooks are mostly a mere formality. "Leave homework, children are unwilling to do it; If you don’t stay, parents will worry that parents need to rely on the homework left by the teacher to restrain their children. Only when they see their children writing homework can parents rest assured. " The Chinese teacher said that these holiday assignments are generally not judged, and they will learn to talk about the content of the new semester and have no time to comment on holiday assignments.

　　"This situation provides business opportunities for unscrupulous writers and vendors." John young, a researcher at Shanghai Education Supervision Research Center, said.

　　The reporter’s investigation found that at present, some families tend to respect their children’s "personality" development more and more. In addition, extra-curricular counseling and extra-long interest classes have emerged, and some students no longer "absolutely obey" the school teachers, but arrange their life inside and outside the school more independently. "To write summer homework, it is better to read a good book and make a targeted professional counseling book." A parent said.

　　John young believes that the emergence of the network platform just caters to the change of this educational concept, making writing homework more efficient and convenient, and even some parents "make excuses" for their children, or explicitly or implicitly allow their children to seek homework.

　　Experts call for scientific burden reduction and happy holidays for primary school students

　　John young believes that these ghostwriting businesses not only disturb the educational environment and market order, but also make children feel lazy and lucky, and form the habit of being confused and cheating, which is not conducive to their long-term development.

　　Many netizens believe that ghostwriting business is actually an immoral business practice, turning children’s happy summer vacation into a wonderful business, and relevant departments should correct the unhealthy trend as soon as possible.

　　The interviewed experts believe that finding someone to write homework and find a "gunman" is an act of dishonesty, which will impact and destroy the moral education and value orientation of primary and secondary school students, which is not conducive to their observance of integrity, resulting in a utilitarian understanding and solution to the current predicament. "You can’t confuse the large amount of homework with the purchase of homework to write services. You should tell students that writing homework is a fraudulent act." Xiong Bingqi, vice president of 21st Century Education Research Institute, told reporters.

　　Yue Long pointed out that at present, China’s relevant supervision and legal constraints on the ghostwriting industry are still in a blank state. The education department and relevant market supervision departments should take comprehensive measures to carry out comprehensive rectification, and at the same time increase publicity and guidance, so that ghostwriters, parents and students can form a correct understanding.

　　In view of some "unnecessary" homework, Ding Zhaomin, director of the Education Bureau of nangang district, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, believes that "reducing the burden" actually puts higher demands on teachers, and its fundamental purpose is to improve the quality of school teaching.

　　John young believes that the ghostwriting market has formed a complete industrial chain at present, which reflects the troubles among parents, students and schools. A more adequate dialogue mechanism should be established among the three to form a joint effort to promote the solution of such educational problems, thus providing a healthier environment for children’s growth.