As people pay more and more attention to education, many families spend too much on their children. The proportion of children's education expenditure even reached more than 50% of family income.
Under the long-term concept of "no matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in education", China's parents have never been "stingy" in their investment in children's education.
Previously, a survey on children's education investment in China released by a professional organization showed that children's education expenditure mainly concentrated in two ranges: 1 to 24,000 and 24,000 to 36,000, and such families basically accounted for about 43%. More than 38% of family children's investment accounts for 20-30%. We can roughly judge that the annual income of 40% families is about 6.5438+0.8 million yuan.
And this is basically the status quo of most ordinary families.
However, here, I want to start from the bottom. What is the difference between the middle class and ordinary families who spend 300 thousand or more on their children?
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Xiaoyi (pseudonym) just entered the second grade of primary school in September. Her father is a professor at a famous university in Chengdu, and her mother owns a small company.
Xiaoyi's parents attach great importance to her education. Whether it's hobbies or learning knowledge classes.
Therefore, Xiaoyi's parents have basically arranged school plans for her in the next few years, from primary school to junior high school to senior high school, and even to university, as well as study abroad plans during the period.
Of course, these target planning schools are well-known institutions. Including Xiaoyi's primary school, it is the top primary school in Chengdu's parents' mind.
To this end, Xiaoyi's parents bought a school district room next to the primary school early. However, the investment in school districts is not included in Xiaoyi's education investment. Most of its investment in education is comparable to the president's daily arrangement.
From getting up at seven o'clock in the morning to going to bed at nine o'clock in the evening, even including weekends, Xiaoyi is basically arranged for 365 days a year.
From piano lessons, street dance lessons and roller skating lessons to swimming lessons, painting lessons and Go lessons, to math tutoring, English tutoring and Chinese tutoring, as well as children's programming and robots.
Moreover, in order to cultivate children's foreign languages, foreign teachers are specially invited to stay at home for a long time, and the daily communication with children is English. I have to say that even the nanny of Xiaoyi's family must be fluent in English.
Besides English, I have been studying Japanese in Japan for two months every year since kindergarten.
Of course, especially in piano lessons, Xiaoyi's parents want to cultivate her sense of music, so they hired a famous music teacher. The course is about 1.200 yuan, with 45 minutes per class and 1-2 classes per week.
As for other courses, the teachers invited by Xiaoyi's parents are basically the most expensive. Her parents uphold the advantages of being expensive and expensive, and a good teacher is bound to make a good teacher.
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Xiaole (a pseudonym) is in the first grade of primary school. His father is an ordinary salesman and his mother is an accountant in a small company.
I have to say that Xiaole's parents' education of Xiaole is really the acme of Buddhism.
Xiaole Kindergarten is a public welfare kindergarten. The tuition is only a few hundred dollars, and the living expenses are basically ignored.
Xiaole's parents don't invest much in Xiaole's education, and the primary school is also a public primary school, and the tuition fee is not much.
Moreover, Xiaole has no extracurricular tutoring classes and interest classes except a swimming class.
Even online teaching software, Xiaole's parents often let Xiaole watch those free.
For Xiaole's education expenditure, Xiaole's parents basically invest less than 3,000 yuan each year.
3, 300,000, 3000 common?
Seeing the investment of the two companies, someone asked, is GM? Is it comparable?
Many people think it's unusual, but that's because ordinary people sometimes can't imagine what it's like to invest 300 thousand yuan in their children every year.
After all, for most people, 300 thousand may be beyond the reach of many families' annual income.
However, it must be said that many educational institutions organize children to sign up for study abroad, and many children's expenses for studying abroad alone reach as much as 65.438+10,000 yuan.
Most of these parents signed up their children without blinking.
The middle class is really generous in investing in children.
For example, with regard to bilingual education for children, many star families do the same. They invited some foreign students to live in their own homes. Usually, these foreign students or foreign teachers must be able to speak English and create a good educational environment for their children, so as to cultivate their language. The cost is self-evident.
Similarly, it is common for many ordinary families, such as Xiaole.
What everyone clamored for in the previous paragraph was the reality announced by the Prime Minister, that is, "the average monthly income of 600 million people in China is less than 1000 yuan".
What does this mean? This means that children's investment in education will basically be limited to ensuring that children can go to school, and there is basically no investment in other aspects of children.
This kind of children's investment in education is also common.
What's the difference between 43,000 and 3000 children?
Xiaoyi's academic performance is excellent. Because her father is an English professor, she is very strict with Xiaoyi's English. He is fluent in English, and now he can communicate in daily life.
As for other aspects of learning, with long-term persistence, it is also very excellent. Moreover, she has won many awards since she was a child, and I believe she will continue to win more awards.
But relatively speaking, because most of the time is spent studying, even during the Chinese New Year holidays, there is not much time to play, so Xiaoyi is particularly difficult to get close to.
Xiaole, the same age, has basically no other specialties except swimming lessons. But one thing is that I like to play with my mobile phone and tablet when I am free.
On the contrary, parents are worried about their children's bad eyes and restrict Xiaole from playing with mobile phones and tablets. To this end, Xiaole and her parents often have tug-of-war competitions.
But her personality is relatively good. Even in the face of strangers, she is happy to greet people and has a very optimistic personality.
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There is no doubt that in terms of studies, a small investment of 300,000 yuan in education is definitely better than Xiaole, which is only 3000 yuan less than the investment in education.
Hard work cannot bridge the gap. The gap is still very small today, but there will be more gap changes in the future.
As for his character, it can't be said that it is good or bad. After all, a child's personality is different.
Here, let's talk about parents' evaluation of each other's educational investment.
Xiaoyi's mother is full of superiority, especially her children can get high praise from teachers and rewards in class every time. Similarly, she is also facing anxiety. Once a child fails to study according to the schedule one day, she will always think that the child is useless. For this reason, she is particularly tired of parents and even relatives disturbing her children.
Similarly, she is full of contempt for Xiaole's parents' education, thinking that children will be ruined if they play, and they will definitely be working in the future.
Similarly, Xiao Yi's mother will be full of anxiety when she sees that other children are biased towards a certain subject, so she will frantically make up a subject that is slightly biased towards a certain subject.
However, Xiaole's father believes that children should give her a happy childhood, so that they have been addicted to learning, which is not good for their future growth. He is satisfied with the child's present situation.
Similarly, he is full of disgust for Xiaoyi's mother, thinking that such a mother is crazy and draining the child's potential.
Everyone stands from different angles and naturally has different ideas. But what we can't judge is whether the investment in children is appropriate.
It seems that Xiaoyi's investment has reached 300,000, which is the income that many ordinary families can't reach in one year. But how many years later, did Xiaoyi grow up as Xiaoyi's parents wished? Or will Xiaoyi really mold a good character and habit for her? Will there be a rebellion? After all, Xiaoyi's parents all think that our Xiaoyi loves learning.
Similarly, we can't deny that having a happy childhood is likely to explode great energy in the future. However, parents spend little on education. Will it give children a good starting point? Or, one day in the future, will Xiaole miss many opportunities?
How to treat the above problems?
As a parent, how much do you think is appropriate for children's education expenditure?