<h5>"I just paid a tuition fee, but I didn't expect green light to go out of business." "Now the green light rights defenders are full, and they can't get in!" "I heard that the largest tuition fee in the rights defense group paid 170,000 yuan!" ......</h5>
In the first weekend after the start of school, for many parents who have signed up for the extracurricular training of green light children's education, there are only two words to describe, "Bad heart!" ”
On September 3, Greenlight Children's Education issued a suspension announcement on its public account: Greenlight Education will no longer open any online and offline courses from September 3 (including September 3), all campuses will stop operating, and institutions will also arrange special personnel to deal with follow-up class consumption matters.
It is understood that GreenLight Children's Education has more than 30 campuses in Shanghai, and is distributed in Jing'an, Huangpu, Hongkou, Yangpu, Putuo, Changning and other districts. Parents who learned of the closure of Greenlight from their respective curriculum consultants have rushed to their respective campuses since the afternoon of September 3 to defend their rights.
<h2>Paid more than 30,000 yuan for a class did not take,</h2>
<h2>Parents are required to fill in detailed report information for rights protection</h2>
A storefront on the first floor of the commercial body where the Green Light Children's Education Tonghe Campus is located is particularly conspicuous, where there are not only two security guards standing in front of the door, but also the barriers and umbrellas used in the queue, which is a temporary registration office for parents to defend their rights, and the classroom on the third floor where the original Green Light Children's Education is located has long been closed.
"Is the registration here?" During the weekend, many parents who heard the news recognized the place at a glance. Mr. Zhang's daughter is in the second year of junior high school, and has been reading mathematical thinking in the green light children's education class before, "In August, the course consultant also let me pay the course fee for the next semester in advance, but she suddenly told me on The morning of September 3 that she was unemployed, so I hurried to register." Mr. Zhang said that although he was unbelievable, after all, the course consultant was also a part-time worker, and it was not easy for everyone to blame anything.
Hearing that on the afternoon of September 3, many parents came to work on leave to register for rights protection, Mr. Zhang said, "I was also quite busy at work, and yesterday I worked overtime until very late, so I had to come on weekends." Walking into this temporary façade, at least seven or eight security guards were resting on the side, and there was a staff member and the security guard at the waiting office, who said, "There are 300 or 400 hundred students in this campus, and the parents who came to register on Friday lined up at the door, so the security guards were temporarily dispatched to maintain order." ”
Parents need to fill out an information form with the student's name, campus, course, payment amount, class time, remaining class hours, contact information, other appeals and other information, on a form filled in by more than 30 parents, the litigation column is all filled in "refund". Mr. Zhang said, "I paid 9,000 yuan for tuition and only took 8 class hours. I think I can refund 5,000 yuan, thank goodness. ”
On the on-site registration form, Mr. Zhang saw that several parents reported new concept English to their children, all paid more than 30,000 yuan, and a class had not yet been attended, "Seeing this kind of information, comparing their own situation, it is really a little comforting." But Mr. Zhang still expressed his indignation at the closure of such institutions, "Most of our parents are ordinary people, and it is not easy to make money." Since the institution knows that it is not ok, then do not let the staff encourage parents to renew the fee in advance! Moreover, Green Light has been doing it in Shanghai for 20 years, and it is definitely profitable. ”
"Can we get back all this tuition information we registered?" In the face of Mr. Zhang's various questions, the staff in charge of registration also did not know this, after checking the information again, Mr. Zhang said, "This is the only way!" ”
<h2>Campus staff only knew of the closure one day in advance</h2>
<h2>Wages, rent, and property are not in arrears</h2>
This weekend, the parents in charge of receiving parents in the Tonghe campus is a staff member of the green light children's education other campuses, he said, "I was also notified after work on September 2, and I will not be used to work tomorrow, so I know that the company is going to close." "When he came to Tonghe Campus to register on weekends, it was other colleagues who called him to help, and he could not make any response to the parents' demands for refunds and whether he could find the person in charge.
The staff member said, "Before September 2, everything was working normally, and the salary for August was still paid on time, and he said that he was really glad to be able to get the salary this month." ”
It is understood that the rent and property fees of the Tonghe Campus of GreenLight Children's Education are not in arrears, and the registration information required of parents is also proposed by the institution.
On June 7 this year, Greenlight Children's Education also changed its business projects, adding "for-profit private training service institutions engaged in language proficiency training (in addition to subjects, language and cultural education and training for primary and secondary school students)" in addition to scientific and technological guidance, sports guidance, and cultural and artistic guidance. This change also shows that the agency is also actively adjusting its own business in accordance with the policy.
However, only three months later, GreenLight Children's Education suddenly ceased operations. Similar training institutions that smell business opportunities have also published a "letter to parents of green light children's education" in their parent groups, and parents of preschool children aged 3-6 can rely on green light children's contracts and invoices to other institutions: free 2-month courses (excluding teaching materials and school supplies), and personalized assessments according to students.
Many parents do not think so, "There are not many early education to report green light, even if you transfer to other institutions, you will continue to pay, where is the free lunch in the world." Even so, there are other institutions that are currently willing to throw an olive branch at preschool early education, at least to prove that it can be done. For K12 extracurricular tutoring, no one is willing to take over the plate, and we can only wait and watch. ”
<h2>Parents should be cautious when registering for classes</h2>
<h2>The street of extracurricular tutoring institutions is a bit depressed</h2>
In the past, Meichuan Road Pedestrian Street was once a red-hot food street, and later with the sudden rise of training institutions, the first floor along the street shops opened food shops, the second floor, the third floor was gradually occupied by extracurricular tutoring institutions, and later this street was jokingly called "training a street" by netizens.
On the first weekend after the start of school, there seemed to be no bustling crowd here, and the large signboard of Green Light Children's Education on the second floor had been sealed with tape.
"It turned out that as soon as we arrived on weekends, we had to go to Meichuan Road to make up lessons, and the children were full of classes throughout the day, both in addition to the number of words, and interest classes such as taekwondo. In the past, when children were upstairs to make up lessons, our parents waited for them in the coffee shop on the first floor, and at noon and at night, they ate on the first floor. "Mr. Gu's family lives on Zhenguang Road, the child is in the fourth grade of primary school, and now there is no supplementary subject on weekends, and the child usually has a hard night," We suspended the cram school, first wait and see, and then come to practice sports. ”
In fact, the sudden closure of Greenlight Children's Education not only shocked the parents who applied for classes, but also set off a lot of waves within the education and training industry. Because green light children's education has been rooted in Shanghai for 20 years. Mr. Li, a "post-90s" who has worked in the training institution for many years, said, "The current strategy of the training institution is to withdraw the lease, transfer from offline to online, reduce the cost pressure, and now it is necessary to try to complete the autumn course." Mr. Li is a popular teacher among students and parents, but he still said that the pressure is not small, "15% of my students here have dropped out of class, which is a very high retention rate." The industry as a whole has only about 50% student retention. ”
Regarding the chaotic growth of training institutions over the years, Xiong Bingqi, president of the 21st Century Education Research Institute, believes that "the reason is that on the one hand, the institution does not operate in accordance with laws and regulations, on the other hand, some parents blindly trust the propaganda of the institution, and even actively cooperate with the illegal operation of the institution." Nowadays, the purpose of standardizing off-campus education and training is to promote the healthy development of off-campus training institutions and truly treat both the symptoms and the root causes. In addition, Xiong Bingqi also called for education to form a joint force of the whole society, school education and the community to perform more educational responsibilities, parents should change the concept of family education, respect the law of children's growth, so that children can grow up better and healthily.
Source: Thoughtful