The Educational Problems Among The Peasant-workers' Children Challenge To Fair Education

"Peasant-worker" is the special concept during the economic and social transition in China, is the combination of "peasants " with "workers" . The total number of Chinese peasant-workers hit about 200 million people, accounted for nearly 60 percent (58%) of the whole working staff in China. Peasant-worker is an important indicator of the China's social changing from traditional to modern society , is a new workforce emerged in rapid development stage of China's industrialization and urbanization, and also is great strength promoted the structure of China's economic and social reform.The social problem accompanied with peasant-worker is the educational issue lying in the stage of peasant-workers' children compulsory education. According to national statistics, the flow children with their parents add up to7-8 million, and about 22 million children still stay at home. No one cares for the children staying at home, and the flow children going to school is difficult, too. The survey shows that the dropout rate of the flow children amounts to 9.3%, the children having no chance to go to school accounts for 6.85%, and the dropout add up to 2.45%.The educational issue of peasant-workers' children has a severe challenge to the China's compulsory education law "school-age children, adolescents enjoy equal rights to compulsory education" and reflect the social inequality phenomenon in the opportunity to go-to-school and the process of receiving education.The underlying causes of educational plight with peasant-workers' children are ignoring the long-term and importance of the phenomenon of peasant-worker, spliting the dual urban-rural of institutional structure, imperfect legal system and most of the peasant-worker lacking protection awareness and being of the poor quality.There are many measures to resolve the educational issue of peasant-workers' children: Let peasant-workers' children go to school in cities; Implement" the subsidies card of compulsory education subsidies card" system; Change the household registration entry into "place of residence admission" for going to school; Receive peasant-workers' children fiting into the evaluation system of city schools; And the governments give preferential policies to support its development as soon as possible.