Cheng'an, Hebei: undocumented schools crush legitimate schools?
2021-12-16
The central government invested more than 1 million yuan to build a comprehensive primary school building, which was abandoned after three years. The reporter of China Youth Daily · China Youth Network found this strange phenomenon during an interview in Cheng'an County, Handan City, Hebei Province. On Tuesday, December 14, the reporter saw in dongbaozhuang primary school, Shangcheng Town, Cheng'an county that the gate of the school had been rusted, locked and empty. The fence on the east side of the school is damaged and there is a gap for people to access. There is a new two-story building on the campus. Each classroom is equipped with air conditioning, but there are sundries in the corridor and classroom, and the campus is also full of corn. Dongbaozhuang primary school complex building belongs to the project of "comprehensively improving the basic school running conditions of schools with weak compulsory education in poor areas", with a construction area of 800 square meters. It is funded by the central government, with an investment of 1.14 million yuan. The completion time is may 2018. This project is implemented by the State Council to coordinate the balanced allocation of urban and rural compulsory education resources and accelerate the narrowing of the regional and urban-rural education gap. A villager in dongbaozhuang village told reporters that after the comprehensive building of dongbaozhuang primary school was repaired, it was abandoned after three years. The reason is that the school enrollment is difficult and there are fewer and fewer students. In 2021, all the remaining students went to xibaozhuang primary school. However, dongbaozhuang village is a village with a population of more than 3000, and there are many school-age children. The villager said that the children were lost to private schools near the village. There are five primary schools within a kilometer of dongbaozhuang village. Except dongbaozhuang primary school, they are all private schools. A local educator told reporters that many private primary schools in Shangcheng have no school license. The reporter saw in two unlicensed private primary schools, the future bilingual school and Hanlin school that the school teaching building and dormitory building are quite magnificent. Two "big nose" school buses were parked at the gate of a school, and a banner "welcome leaders to inspect and guide work" was hung on the wall. According to reports, one of them has more than 600 students, and the other has 400 students. On December 15, the relevant person in charge of Shangcheng Town Central School told Zhongqing daily · zhongqing.com that in the future, the two private primary schools, bilingual school and Hanlin school, have been built and put into use for three or four years. Because the fire control does not meet the standard, they are in the rectification stage and have not obtained the school running license. At present, there are 5 undocumented primary schools in Shangcheng town. In addition to future bilingual and Hanlin, there are Xinghai, Zhongshan and red apple primary schools. In this regard, some local educators questioned: do students in unlicensed private primary schools have school status? Where is the student status? More than 30 unlicensed kindergartens are enrolling students In Cheng'an County, the problem of illegal school running also appears in the field of preschool education. Just in December, the enrollment war of kindergartens has entered a white hot stage after the Spring Festival next year. In order to recruit students, the Rural Kindergartens in Cheng'an county have not only "fight bayonets" in the charge price; Air purifiers, handheld ironing machines, cervical massage machines, VR glasses and even air fryers have entered the list of gifts to attract parents to sign up; More marketing companies have launched a paid enrollment service for kindergartens, promising to get 19800 yuan for every 30 children they help kindergartens recruit "Educators ignore teaching and research, and have studied marketing!" The head of a private kindergarten summed up the strange phenomena in the local area to the reporter of Zhongqing daily · zhongqing.com. According to the data of the seventh census, the permanent resident population of commercial cities and towns in Cheng'an county is 61198, of which 27.10% are aged 0-14. In Shangcheng town alone, there are more than 30 private kindergartens counted by local educators to reporters. However, only 9 of them are listed in the "white list of private kindergartens in Cheng'an county" published by Handan Education Bureau in 2021. Similarly, on the website of Handan Education Bureau, a material entitled "report of Cheng'an County Education and Sports Bureau on the progress of key work in 2018" shows that as early as 2018, Cheng'an County Education and Sports Bureau "banned 26 illegal unlicensed kindergartens, 3 private schools and 11 unlicensed training institutions according to law". However, the reporter of Zhongqing daily · zhongqing.com visited Shangcheng town and learned that more than 30 unlicensed kindergartens are still recruiting students. Instead, three of the nine on the white list have stopped running schools. Vicious competition gives licensed kindergartens a headache How can private kindergartens obtain a school running license? The head of a private kindergarten in zhanghedian Town, Cheng'an County told reporters about the process of handling certificates. "The requirements for handling certificates are very strict!" He stressed. First of all, relevant practitioners of private kindergartens should obtain preschool teacher education certificate, qualification certificate, nurse certificate, health certificate and other certificates. The kindergarten should also provide fire control qualification certificate, house identification certificate and land ownership certificate. Kindergartens that provide meals for children need to obtain a food business license. The principal said that certified kindergartens should be inspected by the education department every year. The inspection contents include the qualification certificate of personnel, whether teachers have problems of teachers' ethics and style, whether campus safety implements relevant management systems, whether the land occupation and construction area per student meet the standards, whether there are large classes and whether there is a tendency of "primary school". Certified kindergartens need to register once a year and pay a risk guarantee fund of 10000 yuan every year until a total of 100000 yuan. Another private kindergarten principal told reporters that unlicensed kindergartens do not have these thresholds and do not have to accept annual inspection because they are unlicensed. In 2020, after novel coronavirus pneumonia was resumed, the Education Department of Cheng County asked for unified nucleic acid testing for the staff and children returning to school. At that time, there was a charge for nucleic acid testing, which aroused the dissatisfaction of many parents. "Unlicensed kindergarten is not so troublesome!" Some parents have made such "protests" in person. "Before August this year, according to the number of students in our village, the top four kindergartens had no school license." An educator in daodongbao Township, Cheng'an County told Zhongqing daily zhongqing.com that only in August did two of the four kindergartens obtain school running licenses. According to him, in recent years, in daodongbao Township and even Cheng'an County, the development of unlicensed kindergartens is better than certified kindergartens. "Because unlicensed kindergartens do not need to pass the annual inspection, their operating costs are often lower than those with certificates." He analyzed that unlicensed kindergartens therefore have the space to reduce fees, and the enrollment competitiveness is stronger. "For example, I charge 220 yuan a month, and the unlicensed kindergarten charges 200 yuan, which is always dozens of yuan less than me." He said. "This vicious competition gives licensed kindergartens a headache." He said that it has become normal for Cheng'an County certified kindergartens to lose in the "price war" with unlicensed kindergartens. Are government departments aware of illegal school running? Does the Education Department of Cheng'an County know about the long-term enrollment and running of unlicensed primary schools and kindergartens of such a scale? For this problem, an educator in Shangcheng town told Zhongqing daily · zhongqing.com that the Education Management Department of the town has established two working wechat groups: one group member is the person in charge of certified private primary schools and kindergartens, and the other is established for unlicensed private primary schools and kindergartens. Reporters noted that in novel coronavirus pneumonia vaccine registration form of 2021, the statistics of Cheng county's relevant departments were also statistically classified. In order to promote the healthy development of private kindergartens, Handan Municipal Bureau of Education issued the "implementation plan of special action on concentrating efforts to clean up and rectify illegal kindergartens" in September 2017, and forwarded the notice of Hebei Provincial Department of education on cleaning up and rectifying unlicensed private kindergartens in September 2018. These documents require the county-level education administrative department to complete the task of cleaning up and renovating unlicensed private kindergartens in its jurisdiction. In August 2019, Handan Municipal Bureau of Education issued the implementation plan of the special action to clean up and rectify unlicensed private kindergartens, requiring all county-level education administrative departments to re investigate and re audit the qualifications of all private kindergartens under their jurisdiction in accordance with the principles of territorial management and "who is in charge, who is responsible" and "who is responsible for examination and approval". In particular, check whether private kindergartens within the jurisdiction have obtained school running licenses and whether they have gone through legal person registration with the local civil affairs or industrial and commercial departments. The unlicensed private kindergartens investigated shall be registered one by one. "Those who run private kindergartens without authorization and fail to meet the standards of running kindergartens after rectification shall be banned and the fees collected shall be refunded according to law". The reporter learned that for the illegal running of unlicensed kindergartens, the head of local private kindergartens reported to the county education and Sports Bureau for many times. "The relevant person in charge replied to me that unlicensed kindergartens are market behavior, which can not be managed by the education and Sports Bureau." The staff of the County Market Supervision Bureau replied that the bureau only supervised the kindergarten canteen. School and kindergarten canteens must have a school running license if they want to apply for a "catering service license". According to reports, unlicensed kindergartens have "detoured" and applied for "small catering business license" because they have no school running license. Several principals of licensed kindergartens told reporters that in Cheng'an County, the "cost" of handling the "small catering business license" has risen from 200 yuan a few years ago to 500 yuan, and now it is 2000 yuan. "The relevant staff said it was a fine. Anyway, after paying the money, the 'small catering business license' came down soon.". (outlook new era)
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