1. Free time after school for primary and secondary school students is quite scarce.
The objective basis of the emergence and development of after-school life is the existence and gradual increase of students' leisure time. Ensuring a certain amount of free time after school is the premise of discussing the extracurricular life of primary and secondary school students. There is not enough time to ensure that everything becomes empty talk. However, at present, the free time of primary and secondary school students is very limited. The direct reason is that the total time of after-school life is a constant amount. Too many tasks assigned by schools and parents virtually occupy a lot of students' time, leaving little free time for students. The survey found that learning activities occupied a lot of after-school time of primary and secondary school students, especially the parents' rigid supplementary requirements, which made the after-school life time that primary and secondary school students could freely control less and less. How to make schools and parents appropriately relax the free space for children's growth is the first condition for the government to give sufficient support in educational concepts, educational systems and educational forms.
2. The academic pressure is great, which takes up most of the spare time and content.
From the formal point of view, the extracurricular life of primary and secondary school students seems rich and colorful, but in fact, the content and time are still mainly occupied by studies, and the phenomenon of excessive academic pressure is widespread. Our survey results show that the after-school life of primary and secondary school students is mainly occupied by their studies. Doing homework or reviewing lessons, watching TV and reading extracurricular books and periodicals are the three most common things that primary and secondary school students in Guangzhou do in their spare time. Among them, doing homework or reviewing lessons takes up most of the spare time, and has been advocating to reduce the burden for many years, and the effect is not obvious. To carry out the "burden reduction" to the end, the government needs to work hard from the roots of the education system.
3. The places and facilities for extracurricular activities are still insufficient.
The extracurricular life of primary and secondary school students can not be separated from the support of certain activity places and facilities. However, the survey results show that there is a shortage of extracurricular activities places for primary and secondary school students, especially the shortage of nearby activities places and facilities. According to the statistics of relevant departments, more than half of the stadiums in Guangzhou are concentrated in the education system and distributed on campus, mainly serving specific time and people; Uneven regional distribution, mainly in Panyu, Baiyun, Tianhe and other areas; Mainly used for public welfare, more than 40% is not open to the public. The government has the dual responsibilities of direct investment and macro-control in providing and equipping places and facilities for extracurricular activities for primary and secondary school students. To solve the overall shortage, the government needs to increase capital investment.
4. The layout of extracurricular activities of primary and secondary school students is not reasonable enough.
Generally speaking, Guangzhou governments at all levels and their social institutions provide relatively perfect venues for primary and secondary school students' after-school life, but the distribution of these venues is not balanced. For example, among the 18 museums under the jurisdiction of the Municipal Cultural Bureau, 9 are gathered in Yuexiu District, while there are no museums in Fangcun and Luogang. The stadiums under the jurisdiction of the Sports Bureau are mostly concentrated in Panyu, Tianhe, Baiyun and other new urban areas. This centralized distribution cannot meet the cultural needs of other urban and rural children. Therefore, the relevant government departments should pay enough attention to it. In the future, when considering the layout and development planning of new venues, regional distribution should be taken as an important reference factor, so as to be balanced, reasonable, convenient and effective, so that children from different parts of the city have the opportunity to participate in the spiritual and cultural life of society as much as possible in relatively equal.
5. There is a structural imbalance in the distribution of resources in existing venues.
Among many venues, some are closely related to the daily life of primary and secondary school students, such as community stadiums, libraries, and some mobile venues organized by social organizations. Some of them are often visited on holidays, such as children's palace, children's activity center, library and park. Some will go occasionally, such as various memorial halls. In these existing venues, the urgently needed community resources are not enough, but the existing venues have not been effectively developed and utilized. For example, there is a serious shortage of activity places that are closely related to the daily life of primary and secondary school students in the community, and those activity places that primary and secondary school students only go on holidays, such as children's activity centers and children's palaces, have been idle in stages. How to make full use of the existing activity resources and better serve the after-school life of primary and secondary school students requires further coordination and organization of the government and social institutions, effective integration of various social education resources, bringing staged idle resources into the community, such as opening school stadiums and libraries, and sending seemingly serious or elegant cultural fields into the community as vividly and popularly as possible.
6. The service mode is not sufficiently motivated, and formalism sometimes appears.
Under the international background that the setting of children's activity places is based on the principle of interaction, education and entertainment, Guangzhou's extracurricular activity places for young people pay too much attention to the interests and needs of young students because they overemphasize the educational function. The existing venues are biased towards adults, regardless of the means of display or the team of lecturers, without considering the characteristics of minors. However, there are few museums with professional characteristics that students like to see and hear. Corresponding to the lack of venues, there are also some problems in the design of activities, such as lack of interactivity, lack of entertainment and lack of motivation. Therefore, it is impossible to effectively attract students, really go into children's hearts and convince them. It is precisely because of the lack of service methods that many activity places that are very beneficial to the growth of teenagers lose their due position in the minds of students, while those that are exciting and entertaining, such as video game halls and internet cafes, take advantage of it. The fact that primary and secondary school students are obsessed with online games and then with black Internet cafes requires the government, especially a large number of extracurricular activities of primary and secondary school students, to try to change the "adult" service model and explore the activity organization form that is more suitable for the characteristics of primary and secondary school students.
7. Bad forms and places of extracurricular activities have seriously affected the healthy growth of children.
The great academic pressure, coupled with the lack of after-school living places, has led some students to immerse themselves in exciting online games and illusory online life. In order to alleviate the troubles and anxieties caused by academic pressure and seek temporary relaxation and relief, the needs of students give unscrupulous businessmen an opportunity, and a large number of black Internet cafes have emerged as the times require, which has become one of the bad environments that affect students' after-school life. Of course, in addition to black Internet cafes, video games, pornographic magazines, chatting and making friends are also occupying students' limited spare time and eroding their hearts. The survey results show that at present, nearly 10% students surf the Internet in Internet cafes at ordinary times, and 10% students are addicted to the Internet and spend too much time surfing the Internet, averaging more than 3 hours a day. A few students are addicted to video games and play video games for too long, with an average of more than 40 hours per week. The adjustment and management of unhealthy extracurricular activities requires the long-term cooperation and unremitting efforts of schools, families and relevant government departments.
8. Customers lack attention to high school students.
At the symposium hosted by our research group for government departments and responsible persons of two levels of specific activity venues, the delegates pointed out that the off-campus activity venues in Guangzhou are excessively inclined to the primary and junior high school age groups, but they lack due attention to the interests and needs of high school students. This tendency is not only reflected in the number of venues, but also in the investment intensity. According to relevant statistics, there is only one youth palace for senior high school and above in Guangzhou, and its service groups and areas are still very limited. In addition, in recent years, Guangzhou is more inclined to the construction of children's palace, while the investment in social activities places for groups above senior high school is obviously insufficient. The fact of investigation shows that high school students have the highest proportion of surfing the Internet, and the proportion of surfing the Internet in Internet cafes increases with age. Comparatively speaking, high school students are actually the most concerned group. This should attract the attention of the government and relevant activity organizations, and pay more attention to high school students in terms of funding input and service content.
9. Off-campus educational institutions have a single function, emphasizing economic benefits over social benefits.
In addition to extracurricular training, the functions of off-campus educational institutions include providing activities beneficial to physical and mental health for primary and secondary school students, serving schools and communities, and implementing moral education. However, due to the double pressure of survival needs and parents' preference, the existing after-school education institutions lack comprehensive and effective services and guidance for students' after-school life, pay too much attention to training projects that can produce economic benefits, and pay insufficient attention to non-profit projects that can really enrich students' after-school life, so that the after-school education institutions are almost equivalent to after-school training institutions in function and cannot really undertake the task of enriching students' after-school life.