Li Guoqing opposes giving extra points to the children of medical staff fighting the epidemic. Is it reasonable to give extra points to the children of medical staff fighting the epidemic?

Recently, Li Guoqing, the founder of Dangdang.com and Zaowandushu, said in a video that he opposed giving extra points to the children of anti-epidemic medical staff in the college entrance examination.

Li Guoqing said: "Educational resources are very scarce. It is relatively fair to let children start from the same starting line in the college entrance examination, so there should be no more extra points for special contributions."

In addition, in this video, Li Guoqing also stated that he opposed layoffs. Li Guoqing said: "From the perspective of business management, the cash flow of a business must be sufficient to support at least six months. Six months is the tightest period. If you originally expected three months, it was a mistake in your business management."

On February 9, Li Guoqing, founder of Dangdang and CEO of Zaowan Dushu, posted on Weibo that offline industries such as catering and tourism have been hit by the epidemic, but Zaowan Dushu has ushered in a second boom because Zaowan Dushu naturally has the attributes of being online and at home, and training and reading are productivity in special times. I believe that reading in the morning and evening will become a popular way of reading, and both user growth and retention will see an explosion.

In recent times, many provinces and cities, including Hubei, Henan, Jiangsu, Sichuan, Qinghai, and Shandong, have successively introduced preferential policies for the enrollment of children of medical staff on the front line of the epidemic. In addition to enjoying policies such as preferential treatment for children's admission to schools and kindergartens, the policy of additional points for the high school entrance examination is particularly noteworthy: if your children are taking the high school entrance examination in 2020, you can add corresponding points to the total admission score and participate in the high school entrance examination recruitment. The points vary depending on the region, and most of them are between 10 and 30 points. As soon as the policy was released, it caused debate among many netizens, with some agreeing and many opposing it.

The "Several Measures on Further Caring for and Encouraging Frontline Medical Personnel in the Prevention and Control of the New Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic" issued by Hubei Province include policy support for medical staff's physical and mental health, salary subsidies, performance appraisals, etc., and some of the policy inclinations are clearly directed towards caring for their children.

Why does Li Guoqing oppose giving extra points to children of anti-epidemic medical staff? Is it reasonable to give extra points to the children of anti-epidemic medical staff?

Children of frontline medical personnel who enroll in kindergartens, primary schools and junior high schools in 2020 can be given priority for "admission to relatively high-quality schools."

Those who take the junior high school entrance examination in 2020 can add ten points to the total admission score; those who take the college entrance examination and are admitted can adjust their majors with priority in the same batch.

There is certainly some truth in Hubei's thinking. After all, due to the early chaos, medical staff paid an extremely tragic price, with the most infections, the hardest work, and the most tragic consequences... Many people even risked their lives in the battle.

If it is said that Hubei’s policies are still debatable. When many provinces and cities including Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, and Sichuan subsequently introduced similar reward policies, especially Datong City in Shanxi, which offered a 30-point bonus for the high school entrance examination, everyone became restless.

Everyone can see the dedication of medical staff. This is also the reason why even though the extra points policy touches the most sensitive nerves of Chinese parents, there are still many people who support it.

However, Chinese people who grew up under the examination-oriented education system know too well the importance of the junior high school entrance examination and the college entrance examination. I know too well the importance of scores.

When you were growing up, your teachers and parents probably said something like this to you:

The junior high school entrance exam and the college entrance exam are one-shot deals that can determine the path of your life;

If you can get one more point, you can leave hundreds or thousands of people behind;

If children work harder, they can get a few more points, and their lives will be very different.

There are too many Chinese people and too many students, but only so many educational resources, and high-quality ones are even more scarce.

The fundamental reason for the existence of the examination system of junior high school entrance examination and college entrance examination is the allocation of educational resources.

Fairness, where everyone is equal before exams, is the only moat and rationality for maintaining this examination system for allocating educational resources.

This bonus policy mainly involves the high school entrance examination, so the policy covers all provinces and cities and local authorities can make the decision.