According to China News Weekly, Qian Xueming, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, vice chairman of the CPPCC Guangxi Autonomous Region, and chairman of the Guangxi Autonomous Region Democratic National Construction Association, said in an interview that left-behind children have lived a life without their parents for a long time and lacked parental care. They can only rely on their elderly grandparents every day, or live a foster life. They have been living in a state of letting things take their own course for a long time, and have missed the golden period of forming their character, emotions, and moral character. This has also left many hidden dangers for their future growth and caused psychological problems.
He believes that currently, there are two main reasons why "left-behind children cannot enter the city": First, although the country has issued a series of policies that fully consider the educational issues of migrant workers' children, the growth rate of the urban migrant population has exceeded the affordability of many urban public schools. Second, because migrant workers do not have fixed housing in cities and have frequent job moves, they are unable to provide a stable place for their children to live. As a result, many children of migrant workers cannot meet the admission requirements of urban schools and have to stay in rural areas to go to school, thus becoming left-behind children.
Therefore, it is recommended that the construction of "boarding schools for rural left-behind children" be changed to "boarding schools for the children of urban migrant workers", allowing children to follow their parents to the city to go to school. This will not only facilitate the children to receive care from their parents and satisfy family care, but also allow the children to enjoy the city's high-quality educational resources. It will also fundamentally solve the problem of left-behind children and completely eliminate the phenomenon of left-behind children.
Qian Xueming pointed out that there is another issue that needs to be paid attention to when building boarding schools for the children of urban migrant workers, because some migrant workers can only live in construction sheds due to work and their own conditions, and their work moves frequently. Their children need a stable place to study and live. Therefore, it is recommended to build a number of full boarding schools, that is, boarding is available 365 days a year.
