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School expenses of ‘hundreds of millions of won’ were not properly spent on children
After using organic ingredients, I applied for a loan at a local market.
They only pay for school uniforms and don’t ask for real clothes.
I recently broke the news to you that a famous children’s language school in Gangseo-gu, Seoul, neglected children without a teacher and paid their back wages.
Circumstances in which school expenses were not properly spent were also revealed in various places, but how was it possible to continue the operation without even being repressed.
Reporter Y and Kim Kyung-soo reported the report.
[기자]Parents who complained about the language school paid school fees on behalf of 19 children, and the cost of the textbooks was 180 million won.
That is more than 1 million won per person per month.
Considering that there were more than 60 children, the money received by the institute is estimated to be at least 500 to 600 million won.
However, the situation was revealed that this money was not properly spent on children.
After using organic ingredients, there was a testimonial that inexpensive ingredients were actually purchased from a local market or shared and fed from lunch boxes.
Parents paid for school uniforms and didn’t even ask for clothes.
[해당 어학원 인근 마트 : (품목은) 쌀이랑 과일이랑 채소랑 이런 거/ 저희한테 외상으로 해서 후결제./ 연락 안 돼서 쫓아가기도 하고 중간에 많이 그랬어요.] [전 해당 어학원 교사 : 부엌이 없었어요. 처음에는. 그래서 도시락을 받아서 먹었고요. ○○ 도시락이라든지./ 체육복이라든지 원복을 주문했는데 몇 달이 지나도 주문이 안 됐고.]Parents who felt strange feelings began to inquire into the problems, and the teacher who stopped raising concerns about the functioning of the academy confessed to the parents the malfunctioning of the academy.
[전 해당 어학원 교사 : 양심의 가책을 많이 느끼게 됐어요. 내가 엄마인데 내가 내 아이한테 과연 이런 유치원에서 공부하게 둘 것인가. 절대 아니거든요.]It is still unclear where the school fees were spent.
If so, was there any repression by the authorities?
When I asked the education office, the answer was that it was not subject to supervision.
[강서양천 교육지원청 관계자 : 원비 사용 여부까지는 저희가. 세금이나 신고소득에 관한 부분이니까 그것까진 저희가 조사할 순 없고요. 민원 들어온 부분에 대해서 조사를 하죠. 학원법과 관련된.]Language schools for infants and toddlers, commonly known as “English kindergarten,” are classified as non-kindergarten under current law.
Therefore, it is not subject to the Early Childhood Education Act, which requires the principal and teacher to be qualified and supervised by the authorities.
There is no need to establish a steering committee that parents can participate in to review overall operations.
For this reason, it is not easy for parents to intervene in the operation and correct any problems.
[배정호 / ‘사교육걱정없는세상’ 법률위원회 변호사 : 학부모 간에 정보교류가 굉장히 중요해요. 각 반이나 다니는 분들 사이에 커뮤니티가 만들어지는 게 중요해요. (또 학원이) 선납을 유도하면 일단 의심해 봐야 해요.그럼 정상적으로 운영되는 학원이 아녜요.]As of last year, there are 550 children’s language schools across the country, which is increasing.
To prevent abnormal functioning behavior like this one from Gangseo-gu academy, voices are growing that regulation must be changed to be supervised at the same level as a kindergarten.
[피해 학부모 : 그렇게 믿고 보냈는데 나중에 사고가 터져서 CCTV로 아이들이 방치되어 있는 걸 볼 때 심정은 되게 참담해요.]YTN Kim Kyungsoo[[email protected]]it is.
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