The corrupt culture in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has seriously deteriorated the atmosphere in primary and secondary school campuses. In an unusual move, the Experimental High School in Xinyang City, Henan Province confirmed today (November 11) the veracity of the report circulating online that several student council members were involved in bribery. It was reported that these student council members confiscated students’ mobile phones under the pretext of checking discipline violations and then privately charged each student 300 yuan (RMB) to return the phones. This incident has sparked discussions among netizens.
On November 11, the Experimental High School in Xinyang City issued a statement regarding the online report about several student council members being involved in bribery, confirming the events that were reported on November 10.
According to sources, after confiscating students’ mobile phones, the student council members privately collected 300 yuan for each phone to return them to the students, without reporting it to the teachers.
Some students at the school told mainland media that the student council members demanded bribes from students under the guise of checking discipline violations. “If you don’t pay, they will discipline you or report you to the teachers,” one student said.
Netizens on Weibo pointed fingers at the corrupt culture in the CCP, with some expressing shock at corruption starting at such a young age:
“How did this happen? Corruption starting from the very beginning of life!”
“At such a young age, unbelievable!”
“They will surely be leaders in the future.”
“It’s quite common. When I was in school, the class monitors demanded 300 yuan from each student applying for financial aid under the pretext of not granting it to poor students for the following semester if the payment wasn’t made.”
“High school students are already using their power to make money; it’s impressive. Can honest, kind, and straightforward individuals become student council members and class monitors? They are just being controlled.”
“I am completely stunned.”
“In fact, this is quite common. Many precocious children in primary school start demanding ‘offerings’ from their classmates, not recording names when breaking class rules and telling on them to the teachers. They are very good at playing different roles in front of teachers and classmates.”
“Learning to seek personal gain through power at such a young age is probably due to being influenced by the corrupt official culture. Schools are definitely not a pure land: various fees such as administrative fees, exam paper fees, desk and chair fees, school selection fees, transfer fees, assistance fees, extra lesson fees, cross-district fees, donation fees… corruption breeds in every aspect, doesn’t it?”
“Most student councils are essentially training grounds for servitude, instilling servility from a young age.”
“We have a middle school principal here who frequently gambles in the village.”
“I thought someone was quitting school, but it turns out they are quitting the student council.”
“Embracing the officialdom culture from a young age.”
“Isn’t this extortion?”
“Socialism’s successors.”
“This provides new material; let’s hurry and make a movie: ‘In the Name of Classmates.'”
“Starting from childhood.”
Commentator Li Lin expressed to Epoch Times that these student council members demanding bribes under the guise of checking discipline, threatening to report non-compliance, is likely a result of being influenced by the corrupt culture of the CCP. Over the years, the CCP has often publicized various corruption cases, but they have not had a deterrent effect. Instead, many people tend to imitate such behaviors, including primary and secondary school students. Under the CCP’s rule, the entire society lacks integrity, traditional culture is suppressed, and various anomalies emerge.
As early as September 2, 2009, Nandu Net in mainland China released an interview video shot on the first day of school at a primary school in Guangzhou. In the video, a 6-year-old primary school student stated in an interview that he wants to become a corrupt official when he grows up because “corrupt officials have many things.” In an online survey, 55% of netizens believed this “reflects social reality.”
In 2021, a video of student council members from Heilongjiang Vocational College arrogantly conducting room inspections caused a stir among netizens. The footage showed six female student council members wearing uniform white shirts and black suits entering dormitories for inspections, speaking arrogantly and exercising authority. One of the student council members said to new students in the dormitory, “Remember our faces, when we come to inspect, it means we are going to do it. Pay attention to our name tags, other than us six, no one can control you.”
Many netizens criticized this behavior as being “like a mafia” and “about prison-style discipline inspections.”
(Previously reported:
Heilongjiang university: 6 student council members assert authority in room inspections, sparking discussions
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