【新唐人2012年8月6日讯】日前，北京郊区一间民工子弟学校被勒令关闭后，再次被当地村委会以“检查下水道”为名断水。情绪激动的学生家长一度用身体阻止铲车施工。学校副校长表示，强迫学校关闭的背后，涉及“庞大的利益关系”。评论指出，中共特权阶级垄断了教育资源，处于底层的外来民工子女受教育的基本权利，却长期被剥夺。
据香港《明报》报导，北京去年关闭了24所外来民工子弟学校，位于东郊金盏乡皮村的“同心实验学校”，是附近唯一的幸存者。
学校由一幢两层小楼，和4个篮球架“共用”的水泥篮球场组成，共有学生658人，其中656人是外地务工人员的子女。
今年6月，“同心实验学校”收到了朝阳区金盏乡政府送达的《告知书》，要求学校自接到告知书那天开始，停止一切教学活动，理由是“在房屋、消防用电和卫生保健等方面存在严重安全隐患”。但，执行校长沈金花表示难以理解，因为学校每年都有接受当局的各项安全检查。
北京维权律师温海波认为，就算是真的存在安全隐患，当地政府也有责任和义务帮助资金困难的农民工子弟学校解决问题，而不是直接下令关闭。
北京维权律师温海波：“他们（政府）掌握着这么多的税收资源，而且在很早以前就开始承诺把GDP的4%投入到教育事业当中，但是到目前为止，这个标准还远远达不到他当时的承诺。所以这个毫无疑问是政府应该付出更多的工作。”
政协委员、著名节目主持人崔永元等人，曾在7月上书教育部长袁贵仁，呼吁保留这所农民工子弟小学。
不过，就在学校师生和家长们翘首以盼教育部门批示的时候，8月2号上午，皮村村委会突然派出数十名联防队员和城管，以及铲车，来到校门口，理由是“检查下水道”。
带头的村干部对学生家长和义工叫喊：“皮村的地，皮村人想怎么样就怎么样！”情绪激动的家长和义工们无奈之下，只能坐到铲车前，用血肉之躯阻止施工。公安来到现场后，却声称学校无权干预校门口的施工。
“山东大学”退休教授孙文广表示，中国特有的户籍制度，导致特权阶级的“花朵”可以在温室中成长，而低层民众的子女却只能在寒风中翘首。农民工子女在城市上学这种基本人权一直被剥夺。当局应当责无旁贷的为城市外来务工者的孩子，保留“农民工子女学校”。
“山东大学”退休教授 孙文广：“这个是中国普遍存在的一种带歧视性的和特权性质的制度，造成教育资源的分配不公。这种现象就说明了中国在人权上缺少尊重，缺少保障，受教育权是每个人都必有的权利。”
副校长孙恒要求村委会写下书面协议，承诺不动用铲车拆除学校，以及修建防护措施保障学生安全，村委会多次拒绝后勉强签下协议，开始施工。
孙恒对《明报》记者表示，北京日前遭受暴雨期间，学校地势较高并没有积水，这种施工莫名其妙，针对性明显，而且学校接纳了全村约1/3的学龄儿童，逼迫学校关闭背后，肯定涉及“庞大的利益”。
中国农村、农民问题专家李昌平对《南洋网》表示，为了增加“民办学校”学生人数，地方政府惯用断水断电等伎俩，关闭当地外来民工子弟学校。而那些“民办学校”不仅可以索取很高的学费，还能够享受政府补贴。
采访/李倩倩 编辑/李明飞 后制/葛雷
Migrant Worker Schools Parents Use Own Bodies to Stop Tractor Demolition.
Recently, a termination notice was sent to a school
for migrant workers’ children in a Beijing suburb.
Following this, the local government cut off the water supply
to the school, under the guise of a “sewer inspection.”
Aggrieved parents and students used their bodies
as a blockade to stop the demolition tractors shovel.
The Vice Principal of the school said that substantial
economic interests are involved behind the scenes.
Commentators think that the Chinese Communist
Party’s (CCP) privileged class has monopolized China’s education resources.
The migrant workers’ children are living
at the bottom level of the society.
They are being deprived of the right to be educated,
which is a basic right of human beings.
“Ming Bao” from Hong Kong reported that Beijing authorities
have closed down 24 schools for migrant workers’ children.
The ‘Human Centred Experimental School” has been the only
survivor, located in the eastern suburbs of Beijing.
The ‘Human Centred Experimental School” is a two-floor
building, equipped with a basketball court.
There are 658 students in the school, with only two
students not being children of migrant workers.
In June, the “Human Centred Experimental School”
received a notice from the local government.
It stated that all teaching activities should
be terminated from the day of the notice.
It stated the reason for the termination is that there
are potential safety problems in the school building,
in addition to electricity and health care issues.
However, Shen Jinhua, the executive principal
of the school, cannot understand this decision.
The “Human Centred Experimental School” is subject
to all kinds of yearly safety checks from the local government.
Wen Haibo, a human rights lawyer in Beijing,
thinks that the local government has the
responsibility to help solve the suggested
problems, if there are any, in this school.
To close off the school is not the right thing to do.
Wen Haibo: “The government has a lot of tax revenue every
year, and it promises to invest 4% of it’s GDP into education.
However, up until now, this promise has not yet been met.
There is no doubt the government should work harder on it.”
Cui Yongyuan is a member of the Chinese People’s Political
Consultative Conference, and a renowned TV presenter.
Even Cui has written to Yuan Guiren, China’s Minster
of Education, to ask for the school to remain open.
The schools teachers, students and parents were looking
forward to the further notice from the education department.
However, on the morning of August 2, the local government
sent tens of firemen and city inspectors to the school.
They were accompanied by a demolition tractor shovel,
with claims that this was due to a sewer inspection.
Local officials yelled at the students,
parents and volunteers of the school.
They claimed that this is their land
and they can do whatever they want.
There was not much that parents and volunteers could do
but to sit in front of the tractor shovel to stop the demolition.
The police went to the scene, declaring that the school has
no right to interfere with “construction” at the school gate.
Sun Wenguang is a retired professor
from Shandong University.
He thinks China’s Household registration system has made
the children of the privileged class grow up in greenhouses.
However, children of lower class society
can only wander in the cold wind.
Children of migrant workers have been deprived of the right
to be educated, which is a basic right of human beings.
The government definitely has a responsibility
to keep the schools for migrant workers’ children.
Sun Wenguang: “This is the Chinese Communist Party
System, with widespread discrimination and privileges.
It has caused the unfair distribution of education resources.
This phenomenon tells us that there is no respect
or guarantee for human rights in China.
Everybody has the right to get education.”
Sun Heng, Vice Principal of the school, asked the local
government to produce a written agreement.
The agreement should make it clear that the school would
not be demolished and students’ safety would be protected.
The local government reluctantly signed
the agreement after many rounds of negotiation.
Sun Heng told reporters from “Ming Bao”
that the construction is very baffling.
Even with Beijing suffering big storms recently,
the Human Centred Experimental School is totally fine.
This is because it sits on higher ground. The local
government has been pushing to shut down the school.
Substantial economic interests must
be involved behind the scene.
Li Changping is a specialist on issues
of China’s farmers and rural areas.
Li told “nanyang.com” that local governments play tricks.
They cut off the water and electricity to shut
down schools of migrant workers’ children.
In this way, more students will have to go to “private schools”.
Those “private schools” ask for very expensive
tuition, and meanwhile enjoy government subsidies.
Recently, the so called “sewer inspection” project
has already cut off the water supply to the school.
The volunteers are carrying water to the school
for the students in their summer camp.
