Shandong Provincial Department of Education, Office.
There was a red telephone on an empty desk in the corner.
This is the special telephone number used by the Education Department to contact the department in Beijing.
However, this phone has rarely rung since it was installed. Most of the communication with Beijing is done through the dedicated lines in the offices of the leaders on both sides.
But today the phone suddenly rang.
"Hello, this is the Shandong Provincial Department of Education."
"Well, this is the Ministry of Education. There's a situation I need to understand and verify."
"Just now, our department received a response from a researcher regarding the issue of education fees in your Laicheng area."
"This investigator discovered that institutions affiliated with your Laicheng Education Department were deliberately overcharging children of workers."
"No, that's impossible?"
"We also find this matter somewhat strange. Your Laicheng Mining Bureau is now very famous in Beijing. They just discovered two gold mines, but just a few days later, the Laicheng Education Department raised tuition fees for the children of their unit."
"Yes, the leaders are very concerned about this, so my leader asked us to verify it with you first and then report it to you. Yeah, it's okay. Please give me a definite answer as soon as possible."
Hearing the provincial department's urgent call hanging up, Ou Jian raised his eyebrows and put down the phone.
No matter how many graduates there were from the third batch, they were not enough for the various ministries and units to allocate, so even Ou Jian, who had been confirmed to stay in school, was temporarily taken away by the Ministry of Education for an "internship."
It is very easy to help Lao Zhang. Even as an intern, he can make an ambiguous phone call to the lower office under the pretext of "verify first and then report".
As for forcibly linking the increase in tuition fees with the gold discovery a few days ago, that was Zhang Hongcheng's idea. As a researcher, he could certainly suspect that someone wanted to destroy the unity and stability in the Laicheng area and thus hinder the country's development of the new gold mine.
The reason why local people feel that investigators are not to be trifled with is because these people, like the imperial envoys hundreds of years ago, can report on matters based on hearsay.
Upon receiving the news, the Education Department immediately contacted the Laicheng Education Bureau.
Several leaders of the Education Bureau were so frightened that their hair stood on end. What kind of nonsense was actually reported to the department in Beijing by the researcher?
check!
Put down everything you are doing and check it out immediately!
After calling the office one by one, they finally found clues at Hongzhi School, a college entrance examination cram school jointly run by the Cultural Palace and the night school.
Two days ago, Hongzhi School decided to collect tuition fees from some boarding students without communicating or negotiating with parents.
The first group of people they collected fees from were the children of employees of the Laicheng Mining Bureau, and the standard of collection was actually the same as that for students from the provincial capital who were studying there on a temporary basis!
It’s confirmed!
Several leaders of the Education Bureau wanted to kill Hongzhi’s principal directly.
The treatment at the Laicheng Mining Bureau is indeed good, but if you want to charge them more money, you should at least be more polite, right?
This time, they slapped the Laicheng Mining Bureau in the face just when they were about to make a name for themselves. This is not the way to seek death!
Fortunately, when the Education Bureau issued the document, the words "communicate and negotiate with parents first" were just a cliché, but now it has become a magic weapon for the Education Bureau to shirk responsibility.
Therefore, the leaders of Hongzhi School cannot escape the charge of "lip service" in implementing the document.
Principal Hongzhi, who was scolded so badly, felt weak in the knees when he hung up the phone.
"Fang Lilin, fuck you!" the principal said, completely disregarding his politeness. "If you want to die, don't drag everyone down with you! Why the hell are you messing with a researcher from Beijing?!!!"
Hongzhi School was originally a temporary institution, which was established by combining the venue of the night school and the teacher resources of the Cultural Palace. Fang Linlin was in charge of logistics and was transferred here because of his connections.
The school refunded all the extra tuition fees collected from the children of the Mining Bureau employees to each household on the same day, and Fang Linlin was also returned to the Cultural Palace.
In fact, the Cultural Palace didn't want it either. An acquaintance from the Education Bureau had already reported the matter to the head of the Cultural Palace.
The Cultural Palace gritted its teeth and gave Fang Lilin, who was in a state of shock and panic, two choices:
Either go to the cultural activity center in the countryside, or the boiler room of the Cultural Palace is short of one person...
At this point, many employees and parents felt that Deputy Director Zhang had handled the matter perfectly and the matter could come to an end.
But when Zhang Hongcheng looked at his children climbing up and down on him, as an old father he felt that things would not be that simple.
The children of employees will definitely be targeted in the classes at Hongzhi School!
"Hey, what can we do?"
When this issue was mentioned, Deputy Director Xiong, who had just returned to the bureau, was also deeply moved.
"In our country, the education of children of industrial and mining enterprises is a separate system, and the school buildings, equipment and teachers are all first-class."
"But there are really not many children of workers who are willing to study seriously, even though they have the option of taking up a job."
"Plus, since they are all children from the same unit, the teachers can't be too strict."
"So, after a while, families with children who had good grades and aspirations sent their children to urban schools. Even if the annual tuition was higher than others and they even had to pay tuition fees, they accepted it."
"We have night schools and cram schools in our bureau too. They were quite popular for half a year a few years ago, but aside from a few who passed the first year... well, now, hahaha, so the bureau simply closed them down last year."
Seeing Deputy Director Xiong smiling helplessly and shaking his head, Zhang Hongcheng suddenly felt that it was unwise to let Fatty leave Laicheng in another time and space so early - he thought this matter could be worked out.
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