How much is a skipping rope?On e -commerce platforms, many well -known sports brands are sold for more than a dozen dollars. Even if they have a counting function, they can be bought for thirty or forty dollars.However, there are also some skipping ropes marked with "special entrance examinations in the city".The Xinhua News Agency recently reported the special skipping rope for the high school entrance examination designated by the Hangzhou Education Department, priced at 78 yuan.
According to Xinhua News Agency, for more than ten years, the sports skipping project of Hangzhou Municipal Entrance Examination has been using the "Hengyou" brand jumping rope.In order to allow children to be familiar with the test ropes in advance, many schools and teachers may explicit or imply allow students to use the "Hengyou" brand skipping to practice.The brand's skipping rope is priced at 78 yuan, and the Bluetooth count function is as high as 140 yuan.Even if the price is much higher than other brands, parents have to pay for it.
The local education department is scheduled to be special for examinations. Students have achieved good results in order to take the test, and they usually have to practice.This strategy made the "Hengyou" brand skipping in Hangzhou made a lot of money.According to the agent of the brand's skipping rope in Zhejiang, they sold more than 100,000 foundations in Zhejiang a year, of which more than 70%of them were elementary and middle school students.Each elementary and middle school students in Hangzhou also had almost 100,000 people in the past few years (according to the statistical communiqué of the National Economic and Social Development of Hangzhou, 681,000 students in Hangzhou Elementary School in 2021 and 264,000 junior high school students), it can be seen that its penetration rate can be seenHigh.Based on the profit of 70 yuan for each ordinary skipping rope (industry insiders revealed that the cost of ordinary rope skipping is less than 8 yuan, and the cost of the counting function is less than 20 yuan). The brand has a stable profit of more than 7 million yuan in Hangzhou each year.
How does "Hengyou" skipping the rope of Hangzhou Hangzhou Entrance Examination?According to the Xinhua News Agency, the brand's skipping rope in Zhejiang said that since entering the Zhejiang market in 2011, the "Hengyou" skipping rope is the test rope for the Hangzhou middle school entrance examination.The deputy dean of the Hangzhou Education Examination Institute, which is responsible for the purchase of sports equipment for Hangzhou middle school entrance examination, said that starting in 2011, the education department has "leased" sports equipment produced by the brand producer.Since 2017, the Education Examination Institute has selected sports equipment on the middle school entrance examination by public bidding.A document by the Zhejiang Provincial Government Purchasing Network shows that in 2019, the Hangzhou Education Examination Institute intends to use the "single source" procurement method to rent the brand's sports equipment for the middle school entrance examination.
Just entering the Zhejiang market, it has become a special skipping rope for sports education in Hangzhou. It is specially for more than ten years.The "public bidding" of the education department is the result of "a single source procurement". For the so -called "use of continuity, the integrity of the examination system, and the specificity of the software management platform", other brands of rope skipping is excluded.It is inevitable to have some doubts.Where is this company sacred, who is its actual controller, and what special is it worthy of being favored by the Education Department of Hangzhou?
This kind of "test -specific" skipping rope is much higher than the market price, not only in Hangzhou.The search results on the e -commerce platform show that the special skipping technical model of Shanghai High School Entrance Examination is 158 yuan each, and the jump rope jumping rope of Guiyang's "Examination Room the same time counting countdown" is 179 yuan each.
The skipping test, why do you have to use a specified brand's skipping rope?Especially according to students and teachers, this skipping rope is not suitable for primary and secondary school students.In fact, every rope that meets national standards should be used for examinations.Sports examinations can completely purchase rope skipping of different brands, allowing students to choose freely.You can even consider letting students take the rope skipping test.As for the automatic counting function that improves efficiency, if you are worried that the skipping count of students comes with is inaccurate, it can also be solved by other methods.The current technology can be counted from video surveillance.
In the past few years, some schools "cooperated" with merchants to sell designated teaching auxiliary materials to students frequently. Some schools even asked students to buy thousands of yuan of tablet computers in the name of "information teaching".To this end, the Ministry of Education and other departments have issued documents specifically, which clearly requires that "must not be forced or implied that students and parents buy designated teaching aid software or information."However, the test as a command stick will still play a significant guidance.As we all know, China's education is serious, and everything is guided by examinations.As long as the label of "Exam Special" is on, no matter how expensive parents will buy it.This allows the education department and school to have a lot of invisible power.The education department label the "examination -specific" product for a certain brand, which is an endorsement for it to make it occupy a great advantage in market competition.This advantage comes from administrative designation, which is essentially a kind of administrative monopoly or rent -seeking.
So, behind the 78 yuan "Senior High School Entrance Examination" skipping rope, is it really innocent?This is what the relevant departments should find out.More importantly, it is to break the current situation of the exam with only a certain equipment, so that students have more options.Only in this way can we promote normal market competition. Students and parents can be exempted as chives, and students can use better products.
Xin Provincial Zhi
Editor Chen Bin
