＂Focus Interview＂ 20150201 frozen salary card

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　　For most working-class people, living mainly depends on wages. However, some high school teachers in Pizhou City, Jiangsu Province have reported that they have not been paid normally for more than a year, and unlike some places, it is not the financial arrears of wages, but the salary cards have been frozen by the court, and they even often receive subpoenas from the court. What is going on?

　　As soon as I saw the reporter, a teacher in Bayi Ji High School took out the court documents that he had just received and said that he had to report the property. His salary card was sealed: "It is troublesome to seal my property." The court issued an order to report the property of the previous year to the court. If the teacher refuses to report or makes a false report, the court will impose fines and detention according to the seriousness of the case.

　　This is a loan agreement provided by the borrower. In March 2012, Bayi Centralized School borrowed 500,000 yuan from the borrower, and several teachers signed it as guarantors. Bayiji High School is a local public high school. What are their loans for?

　　The director of the Bayi Centralized Learning Office said: "At that time, the school had difficulty in cash flow, because there was no financial allocation, and the school had to raise money by itself to build these. At that time, the principal was looking for it, so it was impossible not to guarantee it. What should I do?"

　　In this way, since 2000, Bayiji High School began to expand by borrowing, and several teaching buildings and office buildings were built. The debt accumulated more and more, and later it was only borrowed from private individuals, and teachers were frequently asked to be guarantors. At one time, it was a bit surprising.

　　Originally, the school was able to repay the loan normally, and it has always maintained the operation of funds by borrowing new money to repay old debts and then lending. But later, the school was in trouble because of the broken capital chain. The senior leader of Bayi Ji High School told the reporter: "I can’t afford it in 12 years. In 13 years, when President Wang came, he borrowed some money, and I can’t afford it. The school has no money to pay back. Our superior’s policy is not to borrow new loans to repay old loans."

　　The school is unable to repay the loan, the borrower goes to court, and the teacher acts as a guarantor, and their salary is frozen. Some teachers have a monthly salary of about 3,000 yuan, and they have to pay back their car loans and mortgages at home. They have not been paid normally for more than a year, and their lives are in trouble.

　　A teacher’s salary was not only frozen, but also because he was the grade director of the school, he was entrusted by the principal to ask other teachers to guarantee, and now some teachers who have been transferred keep coming to him.

　　The reporter found in the local investigation that this is not a unique phenomenon of a school. The same problem exists in many high schools such as Su yangshan High School and Guanhu High School.

　　It is understood that after repeated reflections from teachers, the school will give them some living expenses every three months. The principal of Su yangshan High School said: "Our solution is to use my office expenses to ensure the teachers’ salaries."

　　However, the consequences of the salary card being blocked are not just the problem of not getting money. A teacher in yangshan High School told the reporter: "My salary has been frozen and my credit is not very good. I want to buy a car loan, and I can’t get a loan."

　　Then, is there any legal basis or policy guidance for the school to find a teacher as a guarantor to borrow money? The headmaster told the reporter: "Don’t ask why, this happened before, and it was wrong before, so it has been corrected now, and the government has helped us to repay this debt actively."

　　The headmaster said that the past should not be mentioned again, but when can the teachers pay off their debts because of the guarantee? The reporter went to the Pizhou court to inquire about the execution order that a teacher had just received. The results showed that 10 teachers had guaranteed a loan of 390,000 yuan, and now they have entered the execution procedure. Based on a teacher’s monthly salary of 3,000 yuan, the debt can be paid off in about one year. However, many of these teachers who participated in the guarantee were repeated guarantees, and this round was paid off, and the next round of borrowers lined up to go to court.

　　The borrower said: "I have looked for these guarantee teachers countless times. I went to the court to report that it was similar to what they said. They said that at least you should wait until the fourth to fifth time. "

　　A teacher was asked to vouch for 21 times, and if he paid it back entirely by his salary, it would be deducted for almost 21 years. According to the reporter’s investigation, in Pizhou, at least five or six high schools, such as Bayiji, yangshan, Guanhu, Tiefu and Tucheng, have experienced the phenomenon of debt-ridden, and hundreds of teachers’ salaries have been frozen. Why is this phenomenon so prominent? Where does the impulse of large-scale borrowing construction in these schools come from?

　　The new campus of yangshan High School is vast and spacious. Why should a rural high school build such a big school? It turns out that the education department of Jiangsu Province rated the high schools in the whole province as different stars according to the different scale and teaching quality. Around 2006, Su yangshan High School began to expand and was ready to participate in a four-star high school. A teacher in yangshan High School said: "If you are rated as a four-star leader, you will achieve political achievements. The second possibility is that if you are rated as a four-star leader, the student’s charging standard will be high. Originally, a student charged 4,800 yuan, but now a student can charge 8,000 yuan."

　　The evaluation criteria of four-star schools include more than 20 requirements for school conditions, teaching staff and management level. From the hardware point of view, if the newly-built school is not less than 100 mu, and there was an old campus in yangshan High School with an area of nearly 100 mu, but they built a new campus with a total area of nearly 400 mu, far exceeding the four-star standard, but in the end, they not only failed to be rated as a four-star school, but also left several unfinished buildings and huge debts. Teachers said that the debts were close to 300 million.

　　In fact, the process of school expansion is obviously out of control and blind. Now the old campus has been idle for a long time, the local junior high school has moved in, and the new campus also has huge waste. Not only is the office building basically empty, but there are also many vacant classrooms in the teaching building. According to the teacher, this is the decision of the former headmaster. However, it is obvious that a headmaster can’t do anything at will to raise huge debts and spread stalls on such a large scale.

　　In Pizhou, such a situation is not a case. It is a political achievement of the government to build high schools in the areas under its jurisdiction into high-star schools.

　　According to the school teacher, Guanhu High School originally had an old campus, but in 2009, Pizhou New Town was built locally. At that time, according to the deployment of the municipal party committee and municipal government, the Education Bureau wanted to build seven schools including a four-star high school and a three-star high school in the new district. The so-called "co-construction of seven schools" has become a task completed in a limited time. Therefore, Taihu High School gave up its original campus as required and moved here. However, before the school was built, the main local leaders were transferred, and the task of building seven schools was abandoned, leaving an unfinished campus and debts.

　　The reporter inquired that an accountant from Tiefu High School in Pizhou published an article entitled "On the Debt Resolution of Local Ordinary High Schools" in 2013. The article mentioned that at the end of 2012, the debt scale of local high schools reached more than 2 billion, for three reasons: First, the acceptance and compliance standards were assigned to local governments as tasks, which made some high schools expand the school-running standards against the compliance standards; Second, the construction investment is basically raised by the school itself; Third, the borrowing cost is too high, and the borrowing interest rate is as high as 36%. In three to five years, the borrowing has doubled.

　　In this case, not only the teachers’ salaries are affected, but also the school order is greatly affected. Every day, all the students in and out of the school are creditors, and it is difficult to guarantee the normal water and electricity in some schools.

　　In view of this situation, the Education Department of Jiangsu Province issued the guiding opinions on the debt resolution of high schools as early as 2012, and the opinions were clear. The municipal and county governments are the main bodies responsible for the debt resolution work, and the municipal and county finances should increase their support and require all localities to ensure that the infrastructure debts of high school education schools in the province will be basically resolved by 2015. It is understood that Pizhou City has also set up a debt clearance team jointly by education, auditing, finance and other departments to clean up high school debts. So how much is the actual debt? The staff of Pizhou Finance Bureau said: "I can’t disclose this figure to you."

　　For the total amount of high school debt, the local authorities are secretive. However, it is understood that there is already a plan for how to pay off debts. Some creditors provided a new repayment agreement with the school. Since many of the loan agreements signed in the past have high interest rates of 20% or even more than 30%, which greatly exceeds the legal interest rate of loans, the new agreement stipulates that if creditors agree to reduce some interest, they will pay off their debts as soon as 2017.

　　Although the corresponding repayment rules and plans have been formulated, this part of the debt guaranteed by teachers has not been given priority in the repayment plan. In this long process of repayment, teachers are anxious about when their salary cards will return to normal.

　　The improper decision-making at the beginning made today’s schools and governments passive. With so much debt, what kind of responsibilities should the principals have? As the decision-maker of the construction and development of public schools, did the government make scientific arguments when making decisions? And who will bear the responsibility for the consequences of rushing? Education is to preach and teach, and to be cleaner and less utilitarian is more in line with the original intention of education. This kind of reflection is long-term; The settlement of debt is complicated; But the urgent task is how to ensure the life of teachers and how to make teachers live a down-to-earth year.