BEIJING - For several days in anger last December, one of the elementary schools of the State, international school of Fangcaodi page top China, nearly became a statistic of the growing number of "mass incidents" here.
This term includes petitions, demonstrations and strikes, peaceful and violent, and there was approximately 280,000 in 2010, according to Sun Liping, a sociologist at Tsinghua University. It was from 87,000 in 2005, according to the Department of public safety.
A thunderstorm of December 3 meeting, some parents have threatened to demonstrate at the gates of the school, unless the principal agreed to prohibit the cars driving in the campus, after a first grader was almost killed in an accident involving a car of the school on the playground for the month to forward.
On 15 November, a pilot of the school had driven what he apparently thought was a bunch of coats for children.
But 6 years Julien Glauser, a student half Chinese, half Switzerland, has been extended on coats. Dragged on the ground more than 8 metres, or about 28 feet, below the black Toyota Camry, Julien suffered serious spine, lung and head injuries. It is expected to make a good recovery - a miracle, physicians in most later said the parents Switzerland, Olivier Glauser and his wife, Li Hong.
"" They told us that they usually see only these injuries in autopsies, ", said Mr. Glauser."
Six months later, Mr. Glauser and Ms. Li accuse the school of a cover-up, the lack of accountability, failing to voluntarily improve safety and refusal of compensation for medical expenses. "" They said, ' Sue, "", said Mr. Glauser.
Contacted this week, however, the school said that it would indeed be compensate victim's family. A spokesman for the school, who gave her name as Zhang, declined to provide details, saying that internal investigations are continuing.
In interviews, parents, who requested anonymity because they have children at the school, called the typical incident of the lack of transparency and responsiveness to several State institutions in China, who are not accustomed to any form of public control.
Speaking at a meeting with parents in March, Ms. Li said: "I fight for the school safety not only for my son, but for all children in China."
Two weeks after the accident, "nothing changed in the school", said Mr. Glauser, a venture capital company. "Cars were still coming in and out."
As parents it is involved. As Word spread, slowly, the school informed parents of the incident, in vague terms, that on 30 November, after some of them had read a blog by Mr. Glauser and demanded answers - main, Liu Fei, agreed at the meeting on Friday, December 3.
He defended the policy to let the cars on the school campus. "Please understand the problems teachers were finding places to park their car", he said, according to several parents who participated.
After a recording of the meeting, his words cause fury and derision.
"Your parking problem is nothing to do with us," the parents are heard screaming. "What is more important for you, cars or children."
"We come out on Monday morning and will demonstrate to the doors of the school and apply to all media in Beijing to join us," they threatened.
Mr. Liu said that immediately after the accident, the school has begun for additional parking in the neighbourhood, including a paramilitary barracks opposite the school.
"It has not been resolved yet," he said on the recording.
Ms. Li, in an interview in March, said: "I think that it is a disease of development," referring to the pressure created by surging possession of a car and the construction at high speed that accompany the rapid economic growth of China. But "at the end of the day, the problem is the system of the State."
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: May 19, 2011
Letter China Thursday not the number of "mass incidents" - demonstrations and strikes, peaceful and violent - in China in 2010. ". It was approximately 180 000, 280,000.
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