A student's bicycle at the gate of a junior high school

Reporter Guo Jing

"There are student bicycles on the sidewalks on both sides of the school gate, not to mention hundreds!" On Friday, a parent sent a photo of a junior high school in Hangzhou full of bicycles to the lion who loves to write.

Most of these bikes are branded mountain bikes, he said, and "don't look cheap."

A mother of a junior high school student said that her son is like this, he must ride to school, pick him up on a rainy day, and refuse to get on the car, and ride away by himself in the rain. ”

There are hundreds of bicycles parked in front of the school, from Phoenix to Giant

The reporter came to the gate of this well-known junior high school located in the main urban area of Hangzhou, and there were bicycles parked on the sidewalks of one or two hundred meters long on both sides of the school gate.

Take a closer look at these bicycles, most of them are bicycles of the same size as public bicycles, a small number of small folding bicycles, and there are many brands, such as Phoenix, Permanent, Giant, Daxing and other brands.

The school said that there are many students who ride bicycles to school, due to the limited space in the school, the relevant functional departments have set aside a parking area for students outside the school, "There are indeed more vehicles parked every day, and the school will arrange teachers and students on duty every day to manage, so as to park in an orderly manner, and often do safety lectures to remind students to ride safely." ”

A class of 3/0 children rides to school

The price of the car is mostly 2000 yuan to 0 yuan

We randomly found a class in two junior high schools in Hangzhou and conducted a small survey.

One of the schools, which has a relatively large school district, has 3 children in a class who ride bicycles to school, reaching 0/0 of the total class size;

The other school is located in the heart of the city, the school district is smaller, the distance to school is relatively close, and there are also 4 children in a class who ride bicycles to school, which is more than 0/0 of the total class size.

Among the 20 children who rode to school, 0 children rode to school within 0 minutes, and the remaining 0 children traveled between 0 and 0 minutes, and the cycling time did not exceed 0 minutes.

The type of bicycle chosen by these students is mainly mountain bike, the price is between 500 yuan and 0 yuan, only the bicycle of 0 people is worth more than 0 yuan, and the price of the rest of the bicycles is less than 0 yuan, of which, the price of the bicycle of 0 people is less than 0 yuan.

More than half of the students have already bought more than one bicycle, and most of the reasons are "the bicycle is too small" or "it is not easy to ride".

A junior high school teacher said that a student once rode a bicycle worth tens of thousands of yuan to school, "When I got out of school, I hurriedly found the teacher and said that my car was moved by someone to move the governor, but fortunately it was checked later and it did not break down." ”

I asked him if he would be a little worried about being accidentally damaged by his classmates all day long when he rode such an expensive bicycle to school, and he silently admitted it. Later, the school contacted the parents, and after communication, they promised not to ride such an expensive car to the school again. The teacher said that the general school does not recommend that students ride such an expensive bicycle to school, one may be distracted, and the other is to avoid children from comparing, and the bicycle can be used as a means of transportation to school, which can be safely ridden.

It is also a 10-minute walk and a bicycle ride

Even if it rains, he won't get into his father's car

一位兒子在學區內初中讀初二的媽媽說，家離學校約2公里路程，兒子從初一開始就騎自行車上學了，“他騎得比較快，大約10分鐘就騎到了。”

"In one of our communities, there are several classmates in the same school, and they all go to school by bicycle." She said that parents feel that this distance cycling is the most convenient option, and it can also liberate parents, and this summer vacation before entering junior high school, she took her son to buy an adult bicycle.

In the interview, there are also some children who only need to walk to school in 10 minutes, and they also choose to ride bicycles to school.

“我們家離學校很近，走路頂多10分鐘，兒子也一定要騎車去。”一位兒子上初三的媽媽說，他們也是進初中的時候，帶兒子去店裡買了一輛能變速的山地車。

The mother said that at the beginning, when it rained, the child's father went to pick him up from school, "When he saw his father, he said, 'I'm leaving', and he rode away, not even wearing a poncho, and went home and told us that he didn't need to pick him up, he probably thought it was cool to ride like this." ”

In the second and third years of junior high school

Because of these two reasons, slowly start picking up and dropping

In the interview, some parents also said that when they let their children ride to and from school in the first year of junior high school, although their children like it very much, but in the second and third years of junior high school, they no longer let their children ride, but instead pick up their parents.

"Pick-up and drop-off by car allows the child to sleep a little longer." A mother said that especially in the morning, if the child rides by himself, he should get up at least 15 minutes early, eat breakfast at home and then go out.

"In the third year of junior high school, the child's academic pressure is still quite high, and it is too difficult to let the child ride for 20 minutes every morning and evening." Another mother said that many parents around her began to pick up and drop off in the third year of junior high school.

In addition to wanting the child to sleep a little longer, there are also worries about the child being injured.

"I was going to take the physical education high school entrance examination a while ago, and I was very worried that he would accidentally get injured and affect the exam." One mother said that her son rode very fast, sometimes letting go of both hands, and once he estimated that he was riding too fast and accidentally broke his ankle, "I told him, 'Ride slowly, it's better not to ride', but my son refused." ”

Nearly half of the students in a junior high school ride bicycles to school

“這兩年，騎車來上學的學生越來越多了。”西溪中學的德育主任李娟琴老師說，特別是去年9月開學的時候，新初一的學生騎車的特別多，“這可能和年輕家長的觀念和理念有關係，現在的家長相較往年，更願意放手讓孩子自己騎車上學了。”

Although the school's parking garage is relatively adequate, hundreds of bicycles are pouring in at the same time every day, and management is also a big problem.

"If they were free parked, some students would have to spend some time looking for their bikes every day after school." Teacher Li said that the school divided the parking lot into an exclusive parking area for 36 classes, and then issued exclusive parking signs to the bicycles, numbered by class, and now the school's bicycle parking lot is very neat and orderly.

This year, the whole school has applied for more than 760 license plates, and according to this data, it can be calculated that nearly half of the school's students will ride to school.

"There are 15 bikes in a maximum class and 0 bikes in a minimum class." Teacher Li said that from the parking sign she had applied, it could be seen that there were significantly more children riding bicycles to school in the first year of junior high school, and there was a significant decrease in the third year of junior high school, "More parents chose to pick up and drop off their children by themselves." ”

A junior high school principal said:

Give your child a little free time

Although there is no official statistics, according to the bicycle parking situation at the school gate, Qu Qiang, the general principal of the 13th Middle School Education Group, estimates that nearly 3/0 of the students in the school are cycling to school, "We have no parking lot in the school, and the functional unit has specially demarcated a parking area for students on the sidewalks on both sides of the school, and at least a few hundred bicycles must be parked." ”

"In junior high schools, students are generally in the school district, and most of the children live not far from the school, so I am more supportive of students going to school independently, and it is good to walk or ride a bicycle." He feels that Hangzhou's urban governance is still relatively advanced, and the safety management of traffic roads and the civilized environment of courtesy to pedestrians are still relatively friendly for children to go to school independently. Of course, parents and schools should continue to instill the awareness of rules and safety education in the process of cycling.

"Nowadays, children have too little free time, and the reason why children like to ride bicycles so much is because they feel more free when they ride bicycles." Principal Qu said that for example, in the reminder system for students entering and leaving the school in Thirteen, parents will receive the message as soon as their children leave school, "that is, the time when the child arrives at home can be calculated, and parents can give their children some free time controllably." ”