Photoshoot cash probe focuses on headmaster
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A MIDDLE school headmaster has been suspended following media exposure of an incident in which 183 poor students were asked to pose for photos holding cash subsidies — but they were then sent home empty-handed, Chutian Jinbao reported yesterday.
It was alleged that students at Jinshan Middle School, Xuanhuadian Town, Hubei Province, were asked to smile and hold a stack of 100-yuan banknotes in front of the camera. After the photoshoot, however, they were not allowed to keep the cash.
A ninth grader, identified as Yangyang, told the paper: “We were told to pretend to smile if we didn’t want to smile. If we didn’t smile, we had to take photos again.”
School officials defended their decision to keep the subsidies, claiming they feared students might lose the money but that the students’ parents could come and claim it.
After the paper reported the story on Sunday, the subsidies for 2015, totalling about 200,000 yuan (US$30,400), were finally issued to students from the sixth to the ninth grade.
According to parents, subsidies for the fall semester of 2014 haven’t been issued, the paper reported.
An official probe into the school’s handling of previous subsidies is under way, it reported.
The provincial rules on subsidies to poor students, which came into effect on December 1, 2014, said primary school students can get subsidies of 4 yuan per day or 500 yuan per semester, and the junior middle students can get 5 yuan per day or 625 yuan per semester.
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