Chapter 1187: Honest Encounters 11

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"Let's talk about the merger of the points..." Qian Jin went straight to the next topic, "As early as the end of 1998, the relevant leaders of the town government put forward the proposal of 'merging schools with points', and the town government also instructed the education office to submit a work plan for merging schools with points. If we simply look at the two aspects of education intensification and sustainable development of education, the idea of merging schools proposed by the town government is really ahead of its time, and if this idea can really be implemented, it will definitely benefit more than 1,000 primary school students in the school district. However, in the following visits, I found that it is easy to talk about the work of merging schools and schools, but it is difficult to implement them. Because there's so much at stake. The first is the ownership of the school building after the merger of the schools mentioned by Lao Qi. Because the school buildings of the primary schools in each school district are collectively funded by the joint villages, all the joint villages want to get a piece of the pie, and no one wants to suffer losses in the face of interests. It is not only the issue of the joint villages of the merged schools, but also the joint villages of the elementary schools in the school districts that are not in the merger plan, saying that the withdrawal of the schools will increase the pressure on their unannexed schools, so they also want to give a hand in the allocation of school buildings for the merged schools... Alas, in the face of interests, not only everyone has selfish motives, but also many village collectives! The village cadres of these village collectives do not give an inch in the face of interests, and it is indeed very difficult to coordinate well. Second, the issue of students commuting to and from school and eating after the merger of schools. Although the geographical span of our Hushan Town is large, but the distribution of primary schools in the school district is very reasonable, basically there is a joint school district primary school in five or six villages, and the distance between the farthest village and the school is five or six miles away, and the students walk to and from school for half an hour at most, because it is close to home, so parents are also very relieved. However, if it is after merging the schools, the contradiction and problem of the distance between students and the distance to and from school will be highlighted, and some students may have to walk more than ten miles to and from school, and more than an hour of time will be wasted on the road. And, because the mountain road is rugged and winding, in addition to the poor road conditions, there are potential safety hazards such as reservoirs and quarries hidden on both sides of the mountain road. Therefore, many parents are a little uneasy about students walking so far to go to school, but it is impossible for parents to pick up and drop off students to and from school every day, so many parents have raised objections to merging schools with different points, and there are many supporters. The way they think about the problem is very simple, that is, whether the merger of the school can bring them a little less trouble, and whether it can bring convenience to the children's learning. This problem does not seem complicated, and it is not too difficult to solve it by 'violence', but this is also an issue that the people want, and it is also an issue that we need to deal with carefully. If the town government can invest in building roads, buying school buses, and building school canteens, so as to solve the problems of commuting to and from school and having lunch for the students after the merger of schools, then the common people will certainly support the work of merging schools with 100,000 yuan! But the problem is that the town government has no financial money! The town government can even default on the salaries of our poor teachers for several months every year, so where will there be spare money to carry out these livelihood projects? Later, at a banquet with the relevant leaders of the town government, I suddenly discovered a secret of the town government's proposal to merge the points and schools..."

2.

"Isn't it just a 'merge point and school'? What other secrets can there be?" Qian Jin's words aroused Qi Jikai's strong interest.

"Hey, hey, this secret is also something I overheard..." Qian Jin smiled, "At a banquet, a deputy secretary of the town government revealed after getting drunk that the proposal to merge with the school was put forward by the mayor in charge of financial work. The original intention of the mayor to propose the merger of schools is not at all for the optimal combination of educational resources, but for those school buildings that are idle after the merger, and the mayor wants to sell these school buildings as abandoned collective assets, and all the funds obtained should be returned to the town government's finances and be uniformly disposed of by the town government. There is also a reason why the mayor has targeted the school buildings of elementary schools in these school districts. First, the town government's finances are indeed beyond their means, and even Yin eats grain, as the head of the government's finances, the town mayor is of course anxious, which is also called rushing to the doctor when he is sick. Anyway, as long as you can get the money to support the life of the town government, it will be done. Second, the construction of the Hushan Scenic Area is in full swing, as long as the Hushan Scenic Area is put into use after completion, it will surely become a beautiful paradise. Therefore, it has attracted the attention of many local tyrants, these people want to buy a piece of land in the Hushan Scenic Area, or build buildings and pavilions for leisure and entertainment, or build hotels and restaurants for investment and money, and idle school buildings are definitely their first choice. This is because the State Land Management Law stipulates that 'those who set up township enterprises and villagers to build houses and use the land owned by the peasant collectives of the collective economic organization with the approval of the law, or the land owned by the peasant collectives for the construction of public facilities and public welfare undertakings in the townships (towns) and villages without the approval of the law, do not need to apply for the use of state-owned land'. In this way, we can save the town government or those investors a lot of money and trouble! Just think about it, how can the area of a primary school in a school district have more than a dozen or even dozens of acres of land? According to the current market situation, it must be worth 3.5 million or 1.8 million yuan? As long as the two schools are sold, the town government can live a good life for a few months, and how can those leaders let go of such a good thing?

Qian Jin's words made Qi Jikai and Zhuang Shitao suddenly realize.