Can you customize your homework？ Most of the ＂gunmen＂ who have become industrial chains are college students.
With the countdown to the summer vacation, "writing homework" has become a hot "business opportunity" — — "A set of discounts except the number of words", "Write summer homework at a preferential price and also include postage" … … The reporter learned that from small advertisements to the Internet, from offline to online, "ghostwriting economy" has a long history, and now it has formed a complete industrial chain. Among the huge crowd who write homework, college students have become the absolute main force.
Homework "feeding" becomes a summer vacation burden
Who is writing it? The reporter learned that ghostwriting "gunmen" are generally college students and are called by ghostwriting platforms to form a team.
A "gunman" who claimed to be surnamed Chen told reporters that he has been engaged in ghostwriting for two years, and the whole team has about 30 people. Not long ago, he also posted a job advertisement on the part-time online. There are students from mathematics departments, foreign languages departments and Chinese departments of various universities in the team, and some people have won prizes in national Olympic Mathematics and Physics competitions. "However, I rarely help students who are about to enter the third and third grades to write their homework, because they will enter the graduating class immediately and don’t want to miss their future." Xiao Chen said.
Why is the homework writing business so hot?
The reporter interviewed 60 primary and middle school students in Guangzhou Children’s Library, Guangzhou Book Center, Xinhua Bookstore and other places. Many students reported that there was not much homework in class, but the homework assigned by the school and parents was a bit breathless.
Among the 60 primary and secondary school students interviewed, there are 40 primary school students and 20 junior high school students. Among the 40 primary school students, 30% think that they have more homework in summer vacation, and the remaining 70% think that the amount of homework is appropriate. In addition, the reporter also interviewed 10 parents, 4 of whom thought that their children had more homework and 6 thought that the amount of homework was not very large.
Students don’t have much homework in class, but parents generally "feed" their children’s summer homework. During the interview, the parents of two junior students said that they had arranged one or two interest classes for their children, but they would not ask them to do more exercises. Nearly 80% of the senior students said that in addition to finishing their summer homework at school, they also volunteered or were asked by their parents to do more exercise books.
Tian Guang, a professor at Shantou University and a sociologist, said: "Where there is demand, there will be a market. From the industrialization and continuous popularity of homework writing service, it is not difficult to see the current burden of students’ schoolwork." Tian Guang believes that we should reflect on how much homework is reasonable and necessary for students.
Teacher Li, a math teacher in a primary school in Yuexiu District, admits that some homework is a mere formality. "Leave homework, children don’t want 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, and they will be relieved when they see their children writing homework. " He believes that students’ holiday homework should be divided into many types, such as assigning corresponding homework to children according to their different grades or evaluation grades. In this way, it can not only prevent students from looking for ghostwriting because of fear of difficulties, but also increase their autonomy in learning.
Lawyer Cao of Guangdong Oriental Kunlun Law Firm pointed out that at present, the relevant supervision and legal constraints on ghostwriting industry in China 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.
Writing homework can also imitate handwriting
"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. " The reporter learned that almost every ghostwriting team has a complete set of operational procedures similar to the above. With the strong market demand, the price of "ghostwriting homework" has also been rising, from tens of yuan at the beginning to hundreds of yuan now.
As a junior high school student, the reporter contacted the customer service of a writing team through QQ and asked to write a composition of not less than 500 words. The other party said that when pricing 50 yuan, 25 yuan should pay the deposit first, and then pay the final payment after writing, and the quantity is large and preferential. The next morning, the customer service sent the written composition to the reporter in the form of a document.
The reporter then contacted a number of "gunmen" as a high school student. A "gunman" said that it is more difficult to do homework in summer vacation in senior high school. Math costs 2 yuan per page, and English costs 1.5 yuan per page. "Primary school and junior high school are relatively cheap. Primary school homework costs 1 yuan per page, and junior high school homework costs 1.5 yuan per page. If it’s a test paper assignment, it needs to be charged per copy, and the price per copy varies from 30 yuan to 70 yuan. ".
In addition, it is more expensive to write Olympic math homework. Mimi, the "seller", told reporters: "Generally speaking, about 100 pages of science homework with answers is one by 100 yuan, one by 250 yuan without answers, and one by 800 yuan in case of Olympic Mathematics. However, the price can still be negotiated. "
In addition to grade and subject difficulty, the time required to complete homework will also affect the quotation of ghostwriting service. The seller "U" said: "If the homework is required to be completed within 5 days and the time is tight, there will be more people to arrange, and there will be an urgent charge. Add 50 yuan in 4 days, 100 yuan in 3 days, 200 yuan in 2 days and 300 yuan in 1 day. If we can’t finish our homework on time, there is no charge. "
The reporter’s investigation also found that the ghostwriting homework has been "upgraded" from simple answers to personal tailor. For example, as long as the students send their own handwriting to each other, the "gunman" can imitate the handwriting and write it. In addition, what kind of pen to use, whether to use correction fluid and correction tape, whether to draw circles, horizontal lines or mark in the process of solving homework, etc., all have "VIP service", and the charge is relatively expensive.
Shenzhen children’s homework time ranks second in the country.
data
An educational platform has published a Report on the Stress of Homework in Primary and Secondary Schools in China, which shows the homework duration and related status quo of primary and secondary school students in China through a series of data. According to the report, in the past three years, although the length of children’s homework in China has decreased, it is still nearly three times that in the world.
According to the report data, in the past three years, the learning pressure of primary and secondary school students in China has indeed improved slightly, and the average daily homework time has been reduced from 3.03 hours to 2.82 hours. Even so, the latest data in 2017 is still nearly three times the global level, or ranks first in the world. Judging from the cities surveyed, Shanghai ranks first in terms of daily writing time of 3.1 hours, followed by Shenzhen with 3.03 hours, and Beijing, Guangzhou and Tianjin rank third, fourth and fifth respectively.
Yangcheng Evening News reporter Zhou Cong
Intern Shen yongnan