According to media reports, the parents of a middle school in Tongling City, Anhui Province reported on the leadership message board that a certain class of the school hadThe class fee is 2,000 yuan per person, and a class with nearly 40 people is 80,000 yuan.questioning “can I use 80,000 yuan in a semester” and “where are these expenses used?”
In this regard, the Tongling Municipal People’s Government Office recently replied that it is true that the class charges 2,000 yuan per person.This fee is collected and paid by the class parent committee with the consent of all parents, without going through the class teacher and classroom teachers.
The news sparked widespread debate. The class fee of 80,000 yuan per class, 2,000 yuan per person, is such a large amount that onlookers and netizens are stunned. In the impression of many people, the class fee for a semester can range from a few yuan to hundreds of dollars, but basically it is less than 200 yuan, and paying 300 yuan is too much.
Who would have thought that there are high school classes now, and the class fee is often in the thousands of yuan, which is almost catching up with the tuition of many public high schools for a semester. How can parents not be hurt?
The local education bureau keeps claiming that the class parent committee has obtained the consent of all parents for this fee, but if all parents have no objection and they are willing to pay,Why are there still parents questioning the legitimacy and whereabouts of the charges on the leadership message board? Isn’t this a contradiction?？
In the official reply, the 80,000 class fees collected are mainly used for textbook payment, learning and activity expenses. For example, the voluntary subscription of subject homework materials is 34,090.5 yuan, the school’s spring supplementary payment for textbooks is 2,636.34 yuan, and the class necessities and other items are 5,261.6 yuan.
At first glance, the expenditure accounts are clear and detailed enough to prove the innocence of the teacher and the school. But whether the money is spent reasonably and whether these expenses need to be covered in the name of class fees is another matter.
For example, some parents questioned that the supplementary payment for textbooks is acceptable, but the subject homework materials are a bit outrageous.
Someone calculated the account, and the money was apportioned to each student, which was more than 800 yuan. Generally, there are 6 subjects studied by high school students, and each homework is evenly distributed, and there is more than 100 yuan. Why are homework materials so expensive? Is it difficult to have several homework for one course, so that the students can write it?
There are parents complaining in the comment area. Their children’s class charges 20,000 yuan for a semester, most of which are used to order various study reference newspapers and test booklets, but the teacher doesn’t talk about it at all, and the children don’t bother to read it. Extremely wasteful. If this is the case, isn’t it more practical and more cost-effective to let students buy it by themselves and do what they can?
In addition, activity expenses and class necessities have also been criticized. The so-called class necessities are nothing more than teaching aids such as chalk, or cleaning tools such as brooms and mops, as well as some standing medicines. The first two are supposed to be provided by the school, and there is no reason for parents to pay.
The first aid kit is nothing more than emergency medicines such as cold medicine and Band-Aid. The students really have a big problem. Parents have taken them to the hospital for treatment, and the class medicine is not needed.
Therefore, others can’t figure it out, what kind of class necessities cost five thousand yuan?
As for decorating the walls and windows of the class, and getting some flowers and plants, it is not impossible, but the parents’ money is not blown by the wind, and it is even more difficult to make money under the epidemic. Where can you take care of it?
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Although the Education Bureau said that the money was collected and paid by the family committee from beginning to end, and the head teacher and the substitute teacher never took it.
But it was precisely this that aroused greater anger in public opinion.
As we all know, the consent of the family committee does not necessarily represent the consent of the parents. In most cases, the family committee does not represent the position of the parents, but instead becomes the spokesperson of the teacher and the school to some extent.
Many things that teachers are inconvenient to do have become the “common will” of all parents under the operation of the family committee.
Or, in order to please the teacher and show its own sense of existence, the family committee does not hesitate to be generous to others and kidnap other parents.
And the few who resist will have to pay the price of being expelled and isolated. Just a few days ago,A parent in a certain place refused to give gifts to the teacher and was forced to withdraw from the group.Have we seen such stories less often?
In the final analysis, what makes most parents succumb is not the authority of the family committee, but the power held by the teacher. It is the fear of their own “rebelliousness” that will make their children feel disgusted by the teacher and isolated by their classmates.
Therefore, even if the Education Bureau claims that the teacher does not handle the income and expenditure of the class fee, it is difficult for everyone to believe that this is entirely at the discretion of the parent committee, and there is no advice from the school. What materials to buy and what money to spend, The teacher didn’t ask any questions, and stayed out of it from beginning to end.
Taking a step back, even if it is really the family committee that does everything,The school also cannot allow a few parents to set standards, kidnap parents, and raise class fees to a ludicrous level。
For many ordinary families, the child’s high school tuition and living expenses are already a heavy burden. The class fee of 2,000 yuan per semester is enough to make many parents worry. I dare not speak out, I can only count on the school and the government to put things right.
It’s a pity that the local education bureau doesn’t seem to see this. It only cares about proving the innocence of the school and teachers, ignoring the real contradiction behind the “unanimous consent of all parents”, and can’t see the compassion it should have for ordinary families. No wonder its response failed to quell the controversy. , which led to more criticism.