【新唐人2012年8月6日訊】日前，北京郊區一間民工子弟學校被勒令關閉後，再次被當地村委會以「檢查下水道」為名斷水。情緒激動的學生家長一度用身體阻止鏟車施工。學校副校長表示，強迫學校關閉的背後，涉及「龐大的利益關係」。評論指出，中共特權階級壟斷了教育資源，處於底層的外來民工子女受教育的基本權利，卻長期被剝奪。

據香港《明報》報導，北京去年關閉了24所外來民工子弟學校，位於東郊金盞鄉皮村的「同心實驗學校」，是附近唯一的倖存者。

學校由一幢兩層小樓，和4個籃球架「共用」的水泥籃球場組成，共有學生658人，其中656人是外地務工人員的子女。

今年6月，「同心實驗學校」收到了朝陽區金盞鄉政府送達的《告知書》，要求學校自接到告知書那天開始，停止一切教學活動，理由是「在房屋、消防用電和衛生保健等方面存在嚴重安全隱患」。但，執行校長瀋金花表示難以理解，因爲學校每年都有接受當局的各項安全檢查。

北京維權律師溫海波認爲，就算是真的存在安全隱患，當地政府也有責任和義務幫助資金困難的農民工子弟學校解決問題，而不是直接下令關閉。

北京維權律師溫海波：「他們（政府）掌握著這麽多的稅收資源，而且在很早以前就開始承諾把GDP的4%投入到教育事業當中，但是到目前爲止，這個標準還遠遠達不到他當時的承諾。所以這個毫無疑問是政府應該付出更多的工作。」

政協委員、著名節目主持人崔永元等人，曾在7月上書教育部長袁貴仁，呼籲保留這所農民工子弟小學。

不過，就在學校師生和家長們翹首以盼教育部門批示的時候，8月2號上午，皮村村委會突然派出數十名聯防隊員和城管，以及鏟車，來到校門口，理由是「檢查下水道」。

帶頭的村幹部對學生家長和義工叫喊：「皮村的地，皮村人想怎麽樣就怎麽樣！」情緒激動的家長和義工們無奈之下，只能坐到鏟車前，用血肉之軀阻止施工。公安來到現場後，卻聲稱學校無權干預校門口的施工。

「山東大學」退休教授孫文廣表示，中國特有的戶籍制度，導致特權階級的「花朵」可以在溫室中成長，而低層民衆的子女卻只能在寒風中翹首。農民工子女在城市上學這種基本人權一直被剝奪。當局應當責無旁貸的為城市外來務工者的孩子，保留「農民工子女學校」。

「山東大學」退休教授 孫文廣：「這個是中國普遍存在的一種帶歧視性的和特權性質的制度，造成教育資源的分配不公。這種現象就説明瞭中國在人權上缺少尊重，缺少保障，受教育權是每個人都必有的權利。」

副校長孫恆要求村委會寫下書面協議，承諾不動用鏟車拆除學校，以及修建防護措施保障學生安全，村委會多次拒絕後勉強簽下協議，開始施工。

孫恆對《明報》記者表示，北京日前遭受暴雨期間，學校地勢較高並沒有積水，這種施工莫名其妙，針對性明顯，而且學校接納了全村約1/3的學齡兒童，逼迫學校關閉背後，肯定涉及「龐大的利益」。

中國農村、農民問題專家李昌平對《南洋網》表示，為了增加「民辦學校」學生人數，地方政府慣用斷水斷電等伎倆，關閉當地外來民工子弟學校。而那些「民辦學校」不僅可以索取很高的學費，還能夠享受政府補貼。

採訪/李倩倩 編輯/李明飛 後製/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.