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To prevent corruption among private kindergartens, the education authorities have been operating a kindergarten corruption report center since 2018. Without.
Reporter Ahn Sang-woo covered in detail.
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is an 8-page textbook from a kindergarten in Gyeonggi-do.
Parents bought this textbook for 27,000 won through kindergarten.
Last year, the Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education said, "The price of textbooks seems excessive," and said, "I will look closely at the audit."
However, the kindergarten has since rejected the school district's audit.
If you refuse to be audited, you can be imprisoned for up to two years or a fine of up to 20 million won.The chairman of this kindergarten refused to be audited in 2018 and was even tried, but only paid a fine of 1 million won.
There are 23 kindergartens nationwide that have refused to be audited by the competent school board for no apparent reason, whether due to the relatively weak punishment.
[Kindergarten official (department): The directors of Kindergarten Viri say this
'How many billions do I have to ask?'
I prefer not to be grateful and to pay a fine of less than 10 million won.]
Parents and civic groups, who have not been able to audit the Office of Education with clear limits, have reported all 318 suspects of corruption to the Kindergarten Corruption Reporting Center under the Ministry of Education since 2018, but there has been no case in which the Ministry of Education has directly investigated.
This is because the preschool audit authority resides with each local school district.
[Park Yong-Hwan/Chief of the Crime Profit Recovery Headquarters of Corruption Kindergarten: The competent education office is not properly investigating, and after filing a complaint with the Ministry of Education to get it done, it is sending it down again.
Seeing that, I was very depressed.] The
way is to point out that the punishment or sanctions should be strengthened to prevent private kindergartens from rejecting the school district audit.
[Gangminjeong / Open Democrats (Board of Education): (Thanks refusal) is to the self-declaration is not the institution with the public service itself, I would like it would not require you to create a strong legal actions or based on provisions which no longer arbitrarily be]
some The Office of Education is pushing ahead with measures to reduce financial support, such as class operating expenses, to private kindergartens that have only recently refused to be audited.
(Video coverage: Ha Ryung, video editing: Won-hee Won, VJ: Oh Se-gwan, Shin So-young)