Students of Yuzhang Academy claimed to have been "kidnapped" and violated the rules by being punished by "dragon whip"
CCTV News:Recently, a school in Jiangxi called Yuzhang Academy has attracted much attention. The school claims that it can help problem of juvenile get rid of Internet addiction through Chinese studies, but many students who have studied here claim that the so-called Chinese studies in Yuzhang Academy are actually corporal punishment such as flogging and shutting down a small black room. So what is the truth? Faced with many questions, CCTV reporters contacted many parties, found several students and their parents who had studied here, and interviewed the principal and teachers of Yuzhang Academy, trying to solve the secret of this academy.
Establish qualified private training institutions in 2013.
A small tile-headed wall with blue bricks and a lattice window hanging in the cloister, these two poems seem to describe the building in front of us. Yuzhang Academy is one of the four major academies in Jiangxi’s history. In May 2013, with the approval of the local education department, this school named Yuzhang Academy was established in Qingshanhu District of Nanchang City. The nature of the school is a private non-academic education and training institution.
Students come from all over the country, mostly junior high school students.
Although Yuzhang Academy is located in Jiangxi, its students come from all over the country. At most, there are nearly 200 students, most of whom are teenagers in middle and high schools. Why does a private training institution that teaches Chinese studies attract so many children from all over the country to go to school?
Xiaowei, who lives in Nanchang, began to study at Yuzhang Academy in September 2013. According to him, he was "kidnapped" from home by several strangers.
Xiaowei: "I feel kidnapped. Ask them where this is and where they are taking me."
According to Xiaowei, he was "kidnapped" to the school. Another child, Xiao Yao, also said that he was cheated in the name of eating. However, unlike Xiaowei, Xiaoyao vaguely guessed what place he was going to be sent to.
Xiaoyao: "At that time, in my home computer, that is, in the history of search, my dad should have glanced at it before deleting it, and I just happened to see such a school. I forgot about almost such a school."
Xiaoyao’s family lives in Shangrao, which is more than 200 kilometers away from Nanchang. His father runs a lot of business there. However, since Xiaoyao entered high school, the existing crisis between father and son has become more explosive.
Ms. Yin, the parent of another girl in Yuzhang Academy, said that her daughter used to be like this, not only resisting communication with them, but even fighting with them. What worries Ms. Yin even more is that her daughter is crazy about mobile phones, and even in order to secretly buy mobile phones, instead of eating breakfast, she saves several or dozens of pocket money and meals to buy mobile phones.
No way, it is the common feeling of these parents, and at this time, Yuzhang Academy in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province entered the sight of these parents.
"Helping people with youth crisis to achieve excellent life" is a promise in the agreement signed between Yuzhang Academy and parents. The admission items of this agreement indicate that students can study at any time, and the semester is from six months to one year. The cost for six months is 31,250 yuan, and the cost for one year is 49,750 yuan.
Such tuition fees are not cheap for many families, but parents who are willing to spend so much money to send their children in have a common expectation. They believe that through the "characteristic education" of Yuzhang Academy, these children who even their parents can’t discipline will usher in a thoroughly remoulded change after half a year.
Why should every freshman be confined for seven days when he first arrives?
"Yuzhang Academy" has a meditation room, and every child who has just arrived at the academy has to be kept alone in the meditation room for seven days and seven nights. The headmaster gave his own opinion about this practice.
This "boredom relief room" is also called the meditation room in Yuzhang Academy, but for many students, it is a dark room that restricts their freedom. As soon as each student enters Yuzhang Academy, he will be kept here alone for seven days and seven nights.
Xiaoyao: "I said how I could be sent to a place like this, but I didn’t tell me anything clearly. I wanted to see my parents or something, so they quarreled with me. After I scolded them, they started to fight. I started to fight with their two instructors. I am sure I can’t beat them. Then they beat me up and they left. "
JovesongThere is a hole under the bed, and then I know what they do? That is to deliberately make a hole to scare you, that is, mosquitoes, mice and ants, and mice can climb in through this hole. "
Except for a few books, no mobile phone and no computer, it is extremely difficult for Calvin and Xiaoyao, who are only teenagers, to stay in this empty room.
The headmaster explained that this was Morita therapy.
Why do students have to be kept alone for seven days when they first enter school? The headmaster of Yuzhang Academy does not deny the question of "closing a small black room". He explained that this is actually a kind of psychotherapy called Morita therapy.
Ren Weiqiang, president of Yuzhang Academy, said: "The child may have some antagonism and reluctance when he comes at first, so we will let him get rid of this emotion through a relatively mild method,/because this teenager’s simple language communication will not be effective when he is in such an emotional state, and some even directly attack our teacher."
After seven days, the students became quiet but said they learned to pretend.
After seven days, the students released from the meditation room were really quiet and less grumpy. However, according to Xiaoyao, these were all produced by them.
Whether it is camouflage or Morita therapy, President Ren Weiqiang believes that after seven days of tempering, it is very helpful for students to study in the academy next.
Violating the "rules" will be punished by the "dragon whip"
At the end of the seven-day confinement, the formal school life began. During the day, there was a culture class, and at night, there was a course called Calder, which many students still couldn’t get over.
In Calder class, the culture teacher first summarizes the students’ day’s study, and then the instructor punishes the students who violate the so-called "school rules". This punishment is not just talk, but the use of a ruler and a whip, which is also called a dragon whip.
Jovesong"I didn’t recite the ancient prose he asked me to recite that day, and then I was beaten with a steel ruler. I think I hit it ten times, but I didn’t feel any pain at all. Why? Because I feel that my heart is dead, just like a walking corpse, disheartened and without any feeling. "
Xiaoyao: "Hiding snacks, not eating clean, not eating, boys and girls pass notes, lighter is to beat the ruler, heavier is to beat the dragon whip, anyway, it is all kinds of miscellaneous things, and the instructor can beat you with the ruler if you are unhappy."
The two recalled that for some serious mistakes in school regulations, it was not just to beat the ruler, but to use another thing, the whip.
Principal: Corporal punishment and non-violence are not half-terror on the Internet.
As for corporal punishment, President Ren Weiqiang believes that it is not violence. Before playing the ruler, they sometimes beat themselves a few times to master the strength. For the ruler to quit the whip, President Ren Weiqiang said that it was not as horrible as it was uploaded online.
Corporal punishment has clear approval procedures. Instructors specialize in punishment.
At the same time, President Ren Weiqiang said that corporal punishment has clear approval procedures and requirements, and their regulations are not so strict, and corporal punishment will not be carried out just because of a trivial matter. Is the situation like what the headmaster said? Our reporter found an instructor who had worked in the academy for a period of time. According to him, the culture teacher would record the students who violated discipline, and the instructor’s job was to punish them.
Zhou Wenliang used to be an instructor in Yuzhang Academy.: "The ruler is very common, that is, people basically make mistakes by hitting the ruler, so when boys and girls talk, they communicate with the opposite sex, which means fighting, hitting the teacher or trying to escape. This is very serious."
At present, the police have launched an investigation into whether the behavior of Yuzhang Academy is suspected of breaking the law.