Hebei public acrobatics school 4 children out: performance smash penalty 500 push-ups

Four acrobatic school children recently ran away en masse, sparking concern that the school only once a week to eat meat, the children also complained, give people money but not enough to eat, feel used. It is reported that the vocational education center in Wuqiao County, Hebei Province, is a public vocational and technical school, the school’s acrobatics program has been named “provincial specialties”.

On April 22 this year, the school’s acrobatics professional Gao Wenjun took four people (11-year-old Zhang Yuhao, 12-year-old Xiang Xuexiang, 14-year-old Chen Xin, 15-year-old Xiang Xuehua) to Chengdu performance, which is also their first performance after learning.

Xiang Xuehua said, in the school, they wake up at 5:30 in the morning, practice until 7:30 to eat breakfast; after breakfast at 8:00 and continue to practice, practice until about 11:30 to eat lunch; afternoon and practice from 2:00 to 6:00, 20 minutes after eating, and then practice for an hour before they can go back to the dormitory to rest. He said that the food in the school is also not good, in the morning on the steamed buns and pickles, noon and evening meals, but the dishes are only tomatoes and fried eggs and potatoes, “meat rarely have, about once a week to eat.”

Life at school was tolerable, but after arriving in Chengdu, the agent, Boss Cao, was impatient and cursed, putting the four of them under a lot of pressure.

According to reports, Xiang Xuehua said, in addition to no breakfast every day to eat, practice until the early hours of the morning, the performance was punished 500 push-ups, they and Cao boss family living in a house, the four in addition to practice, but also responsible for cleaning the room hygiene, “found a bowl not washed began to scold us, a scolding is a few minutes, all are profanity. ” And practice gong is not good, Cao boss will use his hands to pat them, “pat chest, pat back, pat waist, pat half pain half pain kind, but my brother they all said pain.”

For these few days away, he said straight out “not a good time”. After returning, the head of the high also let them truthfully to the police, but Xiang Xuehua said, in the police station to see Cao boss, “he looked at us with the kind of fierce eyes, in our go in to take statements, he also deliberately said ‘I usually have not yelled at you well? Did I scold you guys? After going in, we did not dare to say, just to the police said he did not give breakfast to eat.”

The four children could not figure out how to earn money for their daily performances in exchange for various scoldings. According to the report, Xiang Xuehua said that they came to Chengdu to perform is the teacher contacted Cao boss, the head of the high then sent them over. They did not know that they had to pay for these performances at first, and then after the first performance, they saw someone give money to Mr. Cao, “and every performance after that”. But out of the performance, they each have only 100 yuan a month pocket money. Xiang Xuehua said they then felt they were being used as a tool to make money.

A group photo of the four children after they were recovered.