[First-line interview]Hebei students start from the shady education in Hengshui | Hengshui Middle School | High Pressure | Violence

[Epoch Times, February 20, 2022](The Epoch Times reporters Gu Xiaohua and Gao Miao interviewed and reported) Recently, a netizen who claimed to be a student of Taocheng Middle School in Hengshui, Hebei sent a long article accusing the school of a number of violations. Under the strong pressure caused by the schedule of respite and corporal punishment and abuse, the student has been suspended from school due to psychological problems such as depression and anxiety, which has aroused social concern.

After the netizen complained that the long text was issued on February 9, Hengshui Taocheng Middle School responded on the official public account and Hengshui Taocheng Middle School’s official Weibo on February 10 and 16, saying that the recent online remarks were untrue. “For individuals and related behaviors that cause negative impact and harm to the school on the Internet, the school reserves the right to pursue its legal responsibility,” the statement said.

However, according to a senior high school student Wang Qiang (pseudonym) who graduated from Taocheng Middle School, he told The Epoch Times on the 18th that he himself suffered from depression due to his experience in Taocheng Middle School. Wrist self-mutilation.

He said: “I basically survived the three years there. I was very nervous every day. When it was the worst, I couldn’t communicate with the outside world normally.” But after talking to the parents, the parents thought he didn’t want to go to school. In addition, the teacher controls the students to call the home without permission, “Every time I make a call, I have to sign a note and ask you the reason. If you don’t agree to the call, you will be scolded for hitting, or you will be recorded as violating discipline. I want to talk to no one.”

It was not until the first year of high school (another school) that “the teacher found out that I was self-harming and told me to go home to adjust and relax, and then the treatment began.” Now his condition has improved a lot, but he is still relying on medication to stabilize his mood.

Behind the high enrollment rate is high-pressure closed management and corporal punishment plus cold violence

Hengshui Taocheng Middle School is located in Hengshui City, Hebei Province. According to Baidu information, the school is a full-time boarding middle school with three divisions: junior high school, high school and Xuegu high school. Private school with nearly 20,000 students.

In addition, Hengshui Taocheng Middle School has successively won the titles of “National Model School” and “Hebei Province Model Parent School”. Send your child to the school.

However, behind the high enrollment rate, the harsh “Hengshui Middle School Model” and perverted behaviors such as beatings and scolding, and even touching and molesting make students feel suffocated and tortured.

According to a report by the official People’s Daily in 2014, a first-year high school student experienced what it means to be “human purgatory” in just three months of life in Hengzhong. Because Hengzhong’s success relies on semi-military closed management, which keeps teachers and students in a state of excitement for a long time, and relies on a large number of questions to tap the test-taking potential.

According to the netizen Changwen, in addition to sleeping, they study for up to 16 hours a day. Moreover, there is a small test a week, and a big test a month.

For this reason, Wang Qiang said, they basically do not take off their clothes to sleep. In class, “this teacher just dragged the class away, and the next teacher asked us to start preparing. We went to the toilet once a morning; after a meal, it took at most 15 minutes from ringing the bell to sitting in the classroom, and if we were late, we would stand outside for one morning or one afternoon; I don’t have time to take a shower, and if I’m lucky, I can take a shower at school, so the whole world stinks when I enter the school building in the summer.”

In addition, you can’t sleep at night, because the bed is made of steel, and it squeaks when it moves. There are two teachers on each floor.

In addition, “cold violence is particularly serious” in Taocheng Middle School. Wang Qiang said, in 2021, “At that time, I had some garbage on duty that was not disposed of properly, and the teacher humiliated me and my parents in front of the whole class. Because my parents are almost 60 and older, the teacher sarcastically said, ‘Now Why didn’t you secretly call your 60-year-old father? Now I don’t want your 60-year-old father?’ After that, the teacher said that I was like a wood, and my depression should have started from then. .”

Liu Li (pseudonym), a college student who studied in another high school in Hebei but did not want to disclose the name of the school, also told The Epoch Times that not only Taocheng Middle School, but “most high schools in Hebei are like this”. It is often a mouthful of “Your mother, your mother, don’t be shameless, why are you so shameless?” Moreover, the teacher beat the students, and after beating the students, threatened the other party that if they dared to complain to the family, they would never ignore you again.

Wang Qiang gave an example, “Once two classmates were sleeping quietly talking, and after being arrested, the teacher on duty could not find out who said what, so he directly recorded our entire dormitory for violating discipline, and the teacher couldn’t find out who it was the next day, because We also didn’t want to betray our classmates, so the teacher took us to the surveillance blind spot and beat us with a broom. That day, everyone’s hands in our dormitory were swollen.”

Taozhong High School is even worse. Not only is the enrollment rate low, but it is also darker. Wang Qiang said, “I have seen teachers in Taozhong High School force students to do squatting because they were late, and I have seen teachers whip students with wooden sticks.” Therefore, very few people continue to attend Taozhong High School, and they are not willing to study in Taozhong Junior High School, because parents have the final say, but he feels that this education model “is a shadow for me, at least I will later I dare not think about my junior high school experience.”

Wang Qiang also said that although there are quite a few parents looking for the school, and sometimes when things get bigger, they will do what the parents ask, but after a few days they still go their own way.

Liu Li criticized that many teachers and schools in Hebei have been swallowed up by money. They have no students, no education, and only money. Especially in closed schools, many ugly things cannot be communicated, causing students to suffer and unable to improve their grades. Many students collapse and become depressed because they cannot bear the high pressure of teaching, and many jump off the building.

Wang Qiang emphasized that his grades in primary school had always been among the best, but after three years of Tao Middle School, “it was only for me to be admitted to high school. I didn’t have the confidence to be admitted to university. If I didn’t work hard, I might not even be able to get an undergraduate degree.”

In addition, a male student from Hengshui Taocheng Middle School also revealed on the Internet that he and his friends had been touched and molested by a perverted male teacher. Therefore, he is now suspended from school, and there are many others who are suspended like him. The Epoch Times could not verify this, but this is not the only revelation on the Internet. Some netizens said that they were threatened by school teachers and principals because of the exposure. Some girls are even pregnant.

According to Wang Qiang and the article on the Internet, Epoch Times reporters called Taocheng Middle School many times, but they could not get through. However, according to a staff member of the Education Bureau of Taocheng District, Hengshui City, on February 17, the upstream news reporter said that the bureau has set up a relevant investigation team to conduct on-the-spot investigations in Taocheng Middle School.

However, netizen “Jiang Qinz” believes that “their Education Bureau is useless at all and has been bribed.” Even “their Education Bureau leader is the former principal.”

“Yanyan don’t stay up late tonight,” also said, “The local education bureau and the school are actually on the same side. When I was in high school, our school was like this, and then in the first year of high school, many of our classmates called the education bureau because we were Closed schools only have the school’s telephone, and then we use the phone booth to call the Education Bureau, and the Education Bureau directly cuts the phone to the principal’s office.”

The WeChat public account “Modunan” also said, “It’s not this incident that shocked us. A single teacher in a single school can be called an ‘individual case’. The problem is that from the current revelations, it seems that some things have already happened. It becomes a ‘common case’, which is very scary…” Moreover, the popularity of this matter is actually not lower than that of the eight-child crazy mother, and it can still rush to the second place in the “heavy Olympic fever”. It can be seen that the common people The most important thing is the things around you.

“Y Xiaohuang is bald today” criticized, “Children should not be pawns of capital, parents’ tools to satisfy their own vanity, let alone a perverted teacher’s toy to satisfy their deformed desires!”

Netizen “Really Feeling Xiao Yizhan” appealed: “Save the children!! The hot search has been withdrawn!”

Responsible editor: Sun Yun#