“It doesn’t fit the purpose of a gifted school to cultivate talents in science and engineering.”
“I went to medical school through science high school because I was good at myself. What?”
tvN’You Quiz on the Block’ broadcast capture
TVN’You Quiz on the Block’, which aired on the 6th, was controversial because of the school from which the performer was born. Netizens are voicing that there is a problem in presenting this as a’best case’ even though the performers who simultaneously passed 6 major medical schools in Korea are from gifted schools that are operated for the purpose of cultivating talents in science and engineering, not for medical school.
On this day, Jae-moon Shin, who attended Seoul National University Medical School from Gyeonggi Science High School, which is a gifted school, came out and told her the secret of her study. However, after the broadcast, criticism continues that Shin’s appearance was inappropriate, mainly in the online community.
In April 2019, a special briefing session is held for parents of elementary and middle school children in the sky education high school and college admissions of Jongno Academy for admission to gifted school, science high school, company high school, medical school, dental school, oriental medical school, veterinary pre-medicine, and medicine school. Hankook Ilbo data photo
Here is a summary of the criticism. The gifted school was created for the purpose of cultivating talents in the science and engineering field, and it is a special purpose high school that provides unprecedented support for students with tuition and various learning expenses.
For this reason, students can learn high-level mathematical science knowledge that cannot be encountered in general high schools, and can study with expensive laboratory equipment and tools with the support of the government. In relation to college entrance examinations, various external activities required for entrance to school can be carried out relatively easily compared to general high school students.
However, in practice, there were many cases in which students who received high grades that did not fit this purpose go to medical school and drug school, and for this reason, the appropriateness of operation has always been on the cutting board.
As the controversy grew, the Ministry of Education decided to give penalty to students who graduated from gifted schools and science high schools in 2016 and then went to medical school. From that time on, the gifted school revealed that it was not appropriate to go to the medical field from the time of the entrance examination briefing session, and asked them to write a pledge at the time of admission. As a result, students were not allowed to apply for scholarships if they entered a medical department.
However, in reality, it is difficult to completely prevent the admission to medical school with only the scholarship penalty.
Moreover, like Shin, those who graduated from gifted schools prior to this measure were not subject to the application. In the broadcast, Shin said he had been thinking about going to medical school before he entered the gifted school. He also said that the life record book was also managed in accordance with medical school admission, such as filling more than 200 hours of service only with medical service.
Netizens set the day for the broadcast production team, saying, “When the entrance exam for the whole country ends with medical school, what is your intention to recruit a person who will fade the meaning of the science gifted stock?” Immediately after the broadcast on the YouTube video comment window, “Is it proud to go to medical school at the gifted school?”
However, there were some advocacy opinions saying, “I went to medical school through science high school because I studied well, and I took a scholarship penalty, but is it right to criticize it?”
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