Chapter 20 Huacai Vocational School was forced to refund

Fortunately, even though we were besieged by relevant school personnel, Wei Dong and I were not harmed, and Wei Dong never left his camera, and the shots he snapped at that time are still kept.The next day, "Southern Metropolis Daily" reported the "courteous treatment" we received when we interviewed Huacai Vocational School on the front page introduction and the fourth page. A picture of the reporter and forcibly taking pictures of the reporter.This series of reports of mine immediately attracted the attention of relevant authorities in Guangzhou. So, does this Huacai Vocational School have the conditions for social forces to run a school?The next day, when I interviewed relevant persons from the School-Running Office of Social Forces of the Guangzhou Municipal Education Commission by telephone, a Mr. Deng told me that the Huacai Vocational School sponsored by the Guangzhou Old Engineers Association was indeed issued by the office when it was running the school. license.However, when relevant leaders went to the school to check its school-running conditions, they found that their school-running conditions were not yet mature and did not meet the relevant school-running standards, and asked the other party to improve their school-running conditions as soon as possible.A week ago, several students went to the Municipal Education Commission to complain about the relevant problems of Huacai Vocational School, which had long attracted their attention. At that time, a section chief in charge of this work immediately called Huacai Vocational School and asked for a refund. students, but they are not very clear about the specific actions of the other party.

Contrary to the ambiguous statements made by the Education Commission, the Industry and Commerce Department of Guangdong Province, the Guangzhou Consumer Council and the Guangzhou Labor Department have a firm stand and a clear attitude, clearly expressing their attitude towards this matter. On the afternoon of September 10, Section Chief He, who is in charge of running social schools at the Vocational Skills Development Division of the Guangzhou Labor Bureau, specifically called me and said: The advertisements published by Guangzhou Huacai Vocational School are obviously misleading and deceptive to a certain extent.Regarding the issue of "the factory pays the tuition fees" and other related issues, the labor department has asked the school many times whether it is true, and the other side even made up various reasons to deal with it.According to our subsequent investigation, the school actually forcibly requires all students who enroll to pay tuition fees first.Even after graduation, they never kept that promise.Their practice has violated relevant laws and regulations.Section Chief He said that this Huacai Vocational School is actually sponsored by the Guangzhou Old Engineers Association. The school’s school-running matters were declared two years ago. After examination and review, the school did not have the necessary conditions to hold a 6-month radio maintenance class at that time.However, Huacai Vocational School set up a six-month class without the consent of the government department, and openly advertised in newspapers to recruit students from the public. This is a wrong approach.Aiming at the problems existing in Huacai Vocational School, the Social School Management Department of the Vocational Skills Development Office of the Guangzhou Labor Bureau has recently made the following decisions: 1. Order the school to immediately withdraw the 6-month radio maintenance class that it set up privately, and return 6 2. Since Huacai Vocational School stated in the enrollment advertisement that "the factory pays the tuition", the labor department has the right to request the school to refund the tuition paid by the students; 3. 4. The labor department has asked the school to quickly improve the teaching conditions and student accommodation conditions, deal with the relevant personnel with poor ideological quality, and require the school to report the rectification plan as soon as possible Labor department review.The labor department will send relevant personnel to the school to conduct comprehensive supervision and inspection.

Section Chief He finally said: If Huacai Vocational School does not follow the requirements of the government department and continues to use advertisements to recruit students from the public, the relevant department will suspend the school’s enrollment of new students and stop issuing relevant certificates, and at the same time, the relevant responsible persons will be punished. Take it seriously. A person from the Guangzhou Municipal Labor Bureau also made it clear: the relevant advertisements of Huacai Vocational School are very deceptive!The so-called training of technical personnel that the school advertises in its advertisements does not make sense at all.Because the training content they involve is the most elementary training, and only after the personnel who have undergone high-tech training and pass the verification will they be issued advanced technical certificates by the labor department.Before the examination of the advanced certificate, one must first pass the primary examination, and only after obtaining the intermediate certificate can one be qualified for the examination of the advanced certificate. Each level of examination has certain norms and standards.He also pointed out that because radio maintenance technology is a relatively comprehensive technology, it is impossible for trainees to master it in just a few months.Generally speaking, the elementary class of labor technical training requires 150 class hours, and the school must have good teaching equipment and a team of teachers, combined with a good school and experimental site, but according to the conditions and equipment of Huacai Vocational School, currently It is simply difficult to guarantee the quality of primary training courses.

The person in charge pointed out that they have not yet approved reports such as Huacai Vocational School’s so-called training of high-tech radio maintenance personnel. According to the promulgated regulations on the management of schools run by social forces, Huacai’s related advertisements should be approved, and fees must be reported for approval.Finally, he said that if Huacai Vocational School has illegal activities in labor technical training, they will deal with them seriously in accordance with relevant laws and regulations, and at the same time hand over the school's illegal activities to the local public security department for handling.

Deputy Director Jiang of the Propaganda Department of the Consumer Council of the Guangdong Provincial Administration for Industry and Commerce also pointed out: In principle, schools run by "social forces" are a kind of business operation, so they should be bound by the "Consumer Rights Protection Law".The school said in the advertisement: "The tuition fee will be deducted from the salary after entering the factory", but it also said: "The factory pays the tuition fee", but in fact, the school charged the fee when the students signed up, which is actually a falsehood. The act of advertising to mislead consumers can also be said to be a fraudulent act, which violates the provisions of Article 19 of the "Consumer Protection Law" that operators should provide consumers with true information about goods or services.

Section Chief Zhao of the Guangzhou Consumer Council also pointed out in an interview that it is unfair and invalid for the Huacai Vocational School to indicate on the invoice that "I agree that no refunds will be made", which damages the interests of consumers.If the negotiation fails, the students have every reason to go to court to sue the school. In response to Huacai Vocational School defrauding many students of their hard-earned money in the name of recruiting students, I ignored the pressure from all sides and published more than a dozen exclusive reports on this matter. Under the strong request of some parents, on September 10, this Guangzhou Huacai Vocational School had no choice but to agree to drop out and get a refund. Dozens of students went through the dropout procedures and got part of the refund.

Starting from September 1, I disclosed the relevant problems of Huacai Vocational School for several consecutive days, and finally solved the relevant problems properly, which aroused good repercussions in the society.The newspaper was in an agency outlet in Tangdong, Tianhe, not far from Huacai Vocational School. In those few days, people were waiting for the unlisted "Southern Metropolis Daily" every morning.As soon as the newspapers arrived every day, they were all robbed, so some practitioners deliberately took a bus to the newspaper sales office in Tianhe District in the city or went to the editorial department of this newspaper to buy newspapers.Under the concern of relevant departments, more than 10 students in the six-month maintenance classes of the 100th, 101st, and 102nd phases of the school have been allowed to withdraw from school, and they have also received partial refunds.Before going home, these practitioners called the newspaper office one after another to thank the Southern Metropolis Daily for its care and support.At the same time, those grateful students wrote me thank you letters one after another.

Although a considerable number of students’ withdrawal requests were rejected by the school, due to the vigorous rectification of Huacai Vocational School by the relevant competent departments of Guangdong Province and Guangzhou City in the shortest possible time, the others are still in the school. The interests of the students were protected, and their learning conditions were quickly improved. Not only were electric fans installed in each dormitory, but the school also provided students with free boiled water every day, and their meals were also improved. But what I didn't expect was that during the period of exposing the Huacai Vocational School's scam, I was under all kinds of pressure, and I was often threatened by phone calls.But what I didn't expect was that the biggest pressure came from inside the newspaper office.Because this Huacai Vocational School was run by some well-known veteran cadres in cooperation with others in order to generate income, and I heard that they also made a lot of money.In order to make more money, they seized some people's psychology of believing in the advertisements published in newspapers, and made some exaggerated and even false advertisements. This meddling little reporter ruined a good thing, so they were unwilling to give up and moved around, trying to mess with me.

At the end of September, just before the Mid-Autumn Festival, a few veteran cadres who founded Huacai Vocational School held letters of indictment listing many of my "crimes" and went to Nanfang Daily to sue me, demanding that I be a I apologized to the school, but I sternly refused.Later, the other party approached the newspaper several times, demanding to deal with me, and at the same time threatened to sue me in court.What makes me chill is that a certain supervisor really wants to take the opportunity to deal with me.Because when I entered the Southern Metropolis Daily, the leader didn't agree at all, because I usually don't like to flatter him.He always picked on me, saying that I was just a veteran with no academic qualifications, no experience in news reporting, and I was always causing trouble for the newspaper.Fortunately, Zhu Defu, the deputy editor in charge of the interview department at the time, managed to protect me.When the school sued me, Zhu Defu asked me to find out about the interview situation at that time. After careful investigation and understanding, he was convinced that I was innocent, so he tried to push back.Zhu said to the supervisor: I personally recruited Ishino. It is true that he does not have a college degree or experience in news reporting, but this young man has the hard-working spirit that ordinary young people lack.I am optimistic about him.He is now a mature reporter, and his monthly publication volume ranks among the top few. Many of his reports have received a good response from the society.His achievements are obvious to all.

Under Zhu Defu's strong protection, I finally kept my job.Of course, this was only temporary. Two years later, when Zhu Defu, the deputy editor-in-chief, was suddenly "transferred" from the Southern Metropolis Daily, I was still regarded as a thorn in the side by a certain leader who claimed that "the interview on the Qifu Xincun massacre was untrue." " as an excuse, and finally "opened" me.Of course, this is for another day. Although in my later journalism career, I had narrow escapes four times, I was threatened, slandered and framed by gangsters several times, and I was forced to go to court several times to start litigation battles with my interviewees. In the past, the plaintiff was also a defendant, and at the same time, he was forced to carry out a private criminal prosecution. However, in a real sense, this unannounced visit to Huacai Vocational School can be regarded as a good start in my ten-year career as a political and legal reporter. .In this way, the interview experience of Huacai Vocational School and the pressure I suffered afterwards are also memorable in my journalistic career.