Who is pushing students into the fire pit? Guangming Online Review: Vocational school internships have become "bathing for male guests"
Recently, a female student from the Vocational Education Center in Kaizhou District, Chongqing revealed that during her off campus professional internship starting on July 1st this year, she was arranged by the internship unit Yongqi Skincare Styling Hujin Branch to massage male customers. Later, she also needed to take a shower and massage the genital triangle area for prostate maintenance.
Although it was a professional internship, it turned into bathing for male customers and providing massage services. After the exposure of the girl's experience, not only was her family shocked, but many netizens also felt puzzled. The school arranges internships, and legal compliance is the most basic bottom line requirement. Why has it now become engaging in improper services?
At present, with the parties reporting to the police, the local police have intervened in the investigation and will verify whether there are any pornographic services in the stores; The education department also stated that if schools engage in illegal activities, they will be dealt with. Under the attention of public opinion, I believe there will be an authoritative investigation conclusion.
The person involved is not yet 18 years old and belongs to the category of minors. If she is arranged to take a shower and massage a male customer, the nature of this matter will be extremely bad. Firstly, the involved store provides pornographic services, which is suspected of illegal activities; Secondly, sending interns to stores that provide pornographic services, even if the school is unaware, is a huge oversight in management and extremely irresponsible to students.
There is currently no conclusive evidence to prove the existence of improper services. But there are a few suspicious details. For example, the chat records between the girl involved and the store manager show that the claim that she was arranged to take a bath and massage her buttocks for male customers has not been completely denied by the other party, as evidenced by chat screenshots.
Furthermore, the involved store defended itself by stating that it provided legitimate health care without any peripheral services, but this also contradicts the police's inspection conclusion. According to reports, police officers went to the store for inspection and verification, and found that there were issues with non-standard management and failure to follow the management of bathing places. The reporter's investigation found that the previous bathing projects in the store had suddenly stopped. Since it is legal and compliant, why not continue operating?
The most confusing thing is that after public opinion fermented, the store even splashed dirty water on the girl, claiming that she "voluntarily entered the male customer's bath room". Can such a stigmatized action really cut off her legal responsibility?
Another key issue in this matter is whether the school is aware of it? From the current information, it is undoubtedly difficult to convince people that the school is completely unaware of the tricks involved. To take a step back, the girl in question has already given feedback to the homeroom teacher. Why hasn't the school stopped the internship in a timely manner, and instead continues to keep students in an irregular place suspected of illegal activities?
When schools arrange internships for students, they should be responsible to them, especially if the parties involved are minors, and their legitimate rights and interests should be protected from infringement. The school's complaints against students are not resolved, and this disregard for the legitimate rights and interests of students and their physical and mental health inevitably leads to suspicions that the school and the enterprise have a vested interest. Therefore, it is necessary to turn a blind eye and sacrifice the rights and interests of students.
It is worth mentioning that similar news is not an exception. Recently, there were media reports that a vocational school in Hunan recommended students to work in cross-border gambling in the Philippines. Unexpectedly, after returning to China, the students were involved in the crime of opening casinos and became "online fugitives". News similar to harming students has emerged, exposing the chaotic management of some vocational colleges.
Anyway, whether organizing internships or recommending employment, vocational colleges should at least ensure the safety of students and ensure legal compliance, rather than pushing students into the pit of fire and letting them wander on the edge of illegal activities.
The "Management of Internship for Vocational School Students" previously issued by the Ministry of Education clearly stipulates that vocational schools and internship units must protect the basic rights of internship students in accordance with the law, and cannot arrange students to intern in commercial entertainment venues such as bars, nightclubs, singing halls, bathing centers, electronic game halls, and internet cafes.
Students have not yet delved into the world, and when faced with some unfair arrangements, they can only swallow their pride. In addition to strengthening self-discipline in schools, the education regulatory authorities should strengthen supervision of vocational colleges and guide their standardized operation. Any violations during the process of organizing internships and recommending employment should be punished decisively.
Looking back at this matter, the official department should investigate the facts as soon as possible, give students and parents an explanation, and also sound the industry alarm for vocational school education.
