Jiaxing rectified "school compulsory students to buy tablet computers": 71.345 million yuan was refunded

  Many schools force students to purchase tablets of designated brands in disguise, charge fees for teaching supplementary software services in violation of regulations, and classify based on whether or not to buy tablets... Around November last year, these problems exposed in Jiaxing, Zhejiang caused widespread concern.

Recently, the Inspection Office of the General Office of the State Council announced the rectification of the above-mentioned problems.

  Previous inspections found that many junior high schools such as Jiaxing Experimental Junior High School and Xiuzhou Modern Experimental School carried out "tablet teaching" sorting methods, in disguise, forcing students to buy tablets of designated brands and bundled and sold teaching aid software. And illegally charge software service fees.

More than 22,000 junior high school students in Jiaxing City participated in the "tablet teaching". Estimated based on the per capita payment of 5,000 yuan, the cost exceeded 100 million yuan, of which nearly 70 million yuan was spent on tablet hardware.

  According to the Inspection Office of the General Office of the State Council, in response to the above-mentioned problems, the Jiaxing Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government set up a leading group for rectification work as soon as possible, and quickly deployed the activities of “big start, big visits, and big research” to analyze and correct the problems one by one. 71.3453 million yuan was paid for the refund of the tablet computer expenses, which realized the refund.

  According to the news, Jiaxing City has suspended all seventh-grade students’ "tablet teaching", and the seventh-grade students’ tablet computers have been refunded at the original price, involving 8,827 students with an amount of 22,742,700 yuan; all the eighth and ninth grade students’ money has been refunded at the assessed price The price difference of the tablet computer involved 16,752 students with a total amount of 8,572,200 yuan; the service fees for the auxiliary software paid by the seventh grade students since September 1, 2020 and the eighth and ninth grade students paid after September 1, 2019 have been refunded. A total of 26,545 students were involved, with an amount of RMB 31,858,900. Afterwards, the county (city, district) government will uniformly purchase teaching supplementary software and open it to junior high school students for free; all have been cleared and refunded. The students will be collected from September 1, 2019. The network traffic fee involved 7764 students with an amount of 8.71 million yuan.

At the same time, the relevant responsible personnel shall be given corresponding party discipline and government sanctions and organizational treatment.

  In 2020, according to the clues of the problems reported by the masses on the "Internet + Inspection" platform of the State Council, the sixth inspection team of the seventh inspection of the State Council sent personnel to Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province for an open and unannounced visit, and found that some junior high schools in Jiaxing City are promoting education In the process of informatization "tablet teaching", there are problems such as classifying according to "tablet teaching" in violation of regulations, compulsory purchase of tablet computers and bundled teaching supplementary software in disguise, irregular and opaque school-enterprise cooperation, and lack of supervision by educational administrative departments.

  The notice at the time pointed out that, based on whether to buy a tablet computer, the violation of "tablet teaching" classification is contrary to the principle of equality of compulsory education; in disguised form, students are forced to buy tablet computers and bundled teaching aids and other products, which will increase the economics of students and parents. Burden; school-enterprise cooperation is not standardized and opaque, depriving students and parents of the right to choose tablet computers; digital teaching resources entering the campus are not supervised, and education administrative departments are not in place to implement central decision-making and deployment.

  The supervision team believes that Jiaxing’s education administrative department is not resolutely in place to implement the central decision-making and deployment, the supervision of the school’s promotion of education informatization is not in place, it is simple to deal with the demands of students and parents, and the inaction and slowness in work have caused negative social impacts. .

In the name of educational informatization, local schools promote tablet computers in disguise. School-enterprise cooperation is not standardized and opaque. In violation of regulations, they are divided into classes according to "tablet teaching". Students and parents are forced to buy tablet computers and bundled teaching aids in disguised form to increase students and parents. economic burden.

  In addition, CCTV's "Focus Interview" program also exposed this issue.

After the show was broadcast, Zhang Bing, secretary of the Jiaxing Municipal Party Committee, presided over a special meeting that night, and immediately carried out research and deployment on the "Focus Interview" column that exposed the problems with tablet teaching in some schools in Jiaxing City.

  The meeting emphasized that at the school level, all matters related to the procurement of teaching and education materials and student fees should be fully respected for the opinions of parents and students; at the social level, all major reforms, major policies, and major projects involving public interests , We must fully listen to the opinions of the masses and be fair, just, open and transparent.

Discipline inspection and supervision departments immediately initiate investigations and follow up promptly, and will seriously deal with problems such as inadequate supervision and inaction in work according to laws and regulations, and will never tolerate them.

  The Paper Journalist Zhong Yuhao and intern Wei Xianghui