A Study On The Phenomenon Of The Mega-level Of Ordinary High School In Shandong Province

At the end of twentieth century, the popularization of nine-year compulsory education and the expansion of colleges and universities, have lighted the demand of the high school education, which is between compulsory education and higher education and were in slow rate of development: on the one hand, a large number of complete nine-year compulsory education of the students hope to accept further education, the high school education. On the other hand, the expansion of higher education objectively requires a large number of high school students. In addition, as the economy and the improvement of living condition roars, more and more families can afford more educational expenses to pursue high school education or even the higher education. At the same time, along with the development of the economy, education funds grows steadily, which provides material conditions for the development of high school education.However, the existing ordinary high schools at the end of twentieth century are commonly in small scale and lack teaching resources or in scattered distribution, and it is difficult to meet the rapid growth of education demand. To meet the demand, expanding the scale of the old schools and building new large-scale high schools become inevitable. At the same time, combining the limited and scattered teaching resources is also helpful to improve the quality of education. Under the guidance of national policy, the combination of weak schools, or weak schools being merged into the advantaged, or setting up new big schools have been put into action quickly. Therefore, the ordinary high schools gradually turn to giant. The large-scale ordinary high school, because of such factors as the huge number of students, complex management and so on, have brought some problems for schools’ development and caused some adverse effects. Under this background, the paper aims to explore the problems which are caused by large-scale of high school, and try to find the causes in the background and the solutions of giantism.Apart from the introduction, this paper mainly divides into three parts: the first part of the paper introduces the development of ordinary high schools in Shandong province in recent years, as well as ordinary high schools’ giantism later. The second part of the paper explores the causes of ordinary high school turning to giant from three aspects: the national educational policies, the operation of schools and social education needs. The third part of the paper discusses the solutions of ordinary high schools’ giantism from four subjects which are involved in this problem: the educational administrative department, the school and the public, especially the ordinary high school students’ parents, and tries to raise some possible suggestions of improvements.