A few days ago, a screenshot went viral in social media.
The screenshot shows that Linzhou City Education Bureau and Linzhou Charity Federation jointly issued a document asking primary and secondary schools as well as kindergartens in the city to donate money for the Chinese New Year and give their love.
The screenshot immediately sparked controversy on social media after it was released.
A number of media members have criticized the local government for taking advantage of the children’s “New Year’s money”, but many others have said that the screenshot does not look real.
We didn’t find the exact source of the screenshot file, but a Weibo post from a local school confirmed that the activity was real.
According to a microblogging Blue V certified @Linzhou Hengshui Qiaojiatun School sent out a microblog on March 1, saying: [Donate money to give a piece of love] on the first day of school, Hengshui Qiaojiatun School held a donation activity, students have donated their money to give their love for people in need.
The above picture is from the above Weibo with pictures. At the same Time, the microblogging site also @ Linzhou City Education Bureau and Anyang City Education Bureau.
We checked the official microblogs of the two education bureaus and did not find any relevant content. The official microblogging site shows that Qiaojiatun School in Hengshui Town, Linzhou City is an elementary school.
In fact, it seems that the donation of Chinese New Year money has been in Linzhou City for many years.
The search found that not only Linzhou, asking children to donate “year-end money” has recently been staged in various places.
On March 4, the media reported that recently, Yingde City, Yingcheng Street Central Primary School to carry out the theme of “donate love birthday money”, all teachers and students to participate in the “Guangdong Red Scarf Fund” to raise money.
On February 5, the media reported that on February 1, two young volunteers from the Shanzhuangli community in Qianxi County took the initiative to give out their New Year’s money and, with the help of community leaders, sent rice, noodles and red packets to ten poor families in the community.
In addition, on February 25, the media reported that yesterday, more than 10 Parents and students wearing red volunteer vests came to the Dalian Charity Federation, holding red envelopes and shouting the loud slogan “I have you in mind, help others and please yourself”, which is the volunteer group of “Charity Baby” of the Federation. “This is the donation of the Chinese New Year money by the volunteers of the volunteer project group.
It seems that the donation of “New Year’s money” to help the poor has become the trend.
The truth is, it’s not a bad thing to let children use their money wisely. After all, you can let children from childhood to establish the virtue of helping others, but the problem is that the donation is originally a spontaneous behavior, several departments jointly with red-headed documents issued, it seems to have been not “voluntary” behavior.
A lot of parents with children must be well aware of this. Not to mention the two departments jointly issued a red-headed document, is the school’s own organization to make donations, nominally voluntary in essence, that parents do not dare to raise objections.
After all, the child is still in school. But the fact is, not all families have extra money to donate, and even that some children’s families are themselves economically difficult.
On the other hand, the children’s New Year’s Eve money comes from the elders. In some families, parents let their children keep their own New Year’s money, which is allowed by Family conditions, but some families are not in the habit of doing so.
Families that are finicky and tight with their money are even using their children’s “New Year’s money” to meet family expenses.
This afternoon, a student tweeted a screenshot of the screenshot, saying, “Is it appropriate to issue this kind of red-headed document to donate the Chinese New Year money?
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It is easy to see from the messages of netizens that most of them are not supportive.
One netizen expressed his incomprehension. This kind of donation paperwork activity makes us all feel really a bit speechless. Is this making the children pay for it?
In fact, many parents are also supportive of the donation of love, only to use the red-headed document to ask their children to donate, are said to be unacceptable.
The Southern Weekend report pointed out that: both for the “love”, that will have to fully respect the wishes of all parties, to red-headed documents issued donation “instructions”, more like an administrative “apportionment”, rather than The actual fact is that red-headed documents are strictly prohibited.
In fact, the prohibition of red-headed documents to force charity has been criticized by the state many times.
Many years ago, an article in the Legal Daily pointed out that it is understood that many local governments, in order to advocate charitable fundraising, have used administrative means to issue documents requiring donations, resulting in various levels of the authorities having to follow suit, and even the phenomenon of setting donation standards by administrative rank and automatically aligning.
The above article quotes Tsinghua University professor Jia Xizin’s view that charity is vital because it connotes the spirit of volunteerism. When spiritual needs reach a certain level, citizens are naturally willing to lend a helping hand. Many people who give to charity are not rich and famous, and their donations are not large, but this does not mean that they do not have the need to want to do charity.
In fact, at the national level is also very clear: donations are fine, can not be issued red-headed documents, or the nature and flavor of Marsan will change.
Involved in the business, the state are prohibited under the red-headed document to engage in donations, primary and secondary school students should be even more prohibited.
However, it must be noted that we looked through the official website of the Linzhou Education Bureau and Linzhou Charity Federation, were unable to find the above-mentioned documents.
The authenticity of the above document is yet to be officially responded to.
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