Children's cheap food helped pay teachers
By Li Xinran |
March 22, 2010, Monday
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A KINDERGARTEN in Chongqing Municipality has been awarding teachers extra pay by embezzling children's board expenses.
The teacher who revealed the scandal was sacked last month, Chongqing Evening News reported yesterday.
Yu Lan, principal of the kindergarten in Chongqing's Changshou District, admitted the embezzlement last Thursday but said the extra payments scheme was a tacit rule inherited from her predecessors.
The scheme had lasted for five years, the disciplinary department of Changshou education authorities said.
Parents had been made aware of the embezzlement because they had received evidence from one of the teachers, Zhang Wenying, early this semester.
Zhang was sacked on February 26 because of the disclosure.
Zhang had been the accounting manager of the kindergarten since September 2006 and had learnt all the details about the extra allowance.
Investigation
The six teachers at the kindergarten, including Zhang, were frequently paid extra sums from dozens of yuan to more than 1,000 yuan.
However, each child in the kindergarten, aged between three and five, was fed meals worth about 0.90 yuan each, according to an investigation by township authority.
The tuition for each child was 450 yuan (US$66) a semester while the board fee was 300 yuan.
The cost for each meal should have been 2 yuan or even more, or at least half of the board expenses had been embezzled, according to Zhang's calculation.
Zhang refused the extra pay at the end of last year and sent copies of accounts to parents who then demanded the kindergarten return their money. This triggered the investigation by local authorities.
The teacher who revealed the scandal was sacked last month, Chongqing Evening News reported yesterday.
Yu Lan, principal of the kindergarten in Chongqing's Changshou District, admitted the embezzlement last Thursday but said the extra payments scheme was a tacit rule inherited from her predecessors.
The scheme had lasted for five years, the disciplinary department of Changshou education authorities said.
Parents had been made aware of the embezzlement because they had received evidence from one of the teachers, Zhang Wenying, early this semester.
Zhang was sacked on February 26 because of the disclosure.
Zhang had been the accounting manager of the kindergarten since September 2006 and had learnt all the details about the extra allowance.
Investigation
The six teachers at the kindergarten, including Zhang, were frequently paid extra sums from dozens of yuan to more than 1,000 yuan.
However, each child in the kindergarten, aged between three and five, was fed meals worth about 0.90 yuan each, according to an investigation by township authority.
The tuition for each child was 450 yuan (US$66) a semester while the board fee was 300 yuan.
The cost for each meal should have been 2 yuan or even more, or at least half of the board expenses had been embezzled, according to Zhang's calculation.
Zhang refused the extra pay at the end of last year and sent copies of accounts to parents who then demanded the kindergarten return their money. This triggered the investigation by local authorities.
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