The Shaolin Martial Arts School has been revealed to have disturbing dark secrets, with students beaten and injured while trying to assert their rights. Netizens are furious: This is a hell of the underworld. (Video screenshot)
[People News] The largest private martial arts school in China, "Henan Songshan Shaolin Tagou Martial Arts School," has recently been implicated in severe abuse and management scandals!
Multiple Students Endure Various Forms of Abuse
The incident began in early August when a citizen named Wang from Shenyang reported that he had spent tens of thousands of yuan on banquets and gifts to ensure the care of his 13-year-old brother at Tagou Martial Arts School. Unfortunately, his brother still suffered multiple forms of abuse, resulting in both physical and psychological trauma. The school later confirmed that four coaches and management staff had violated regulations, leading to their dismissal and referral to judicial authorities.
Additionally, videos have emerged online showing students being bullied in dormitories and restrooms. The footage reveals several students being forced to kneel with their heads down, and some were even coerced into putting their hands into toilets to retrieve and consume excrement.
Although the school subsequently dismissed the four involved individuals and referred them for legal action, the related videos were swiftly removed. However, the school's appalling conduct had already sparked public outrage.
Following the exposure of the scandal, a chain reaction ensued, with hundreds of alumni recently gathering at the school gate to protest. They chanted slogans demanding, "Refund! Refund!" insisting that the school return unreasonable deposits that had been forcibly withheld for over a decade, amounting to approximately 3,000 to 5,000 yuan per student.
During the process of advocating for rights, school staff engaged in multiple violent clashes with citizens seeking justice. Videos released by platform X show that at least one protesting student was beaten and injured by faculty members, lying on the ground while receiving assistance from emergency personnel, and was subsequently transported to the hospital by ambulance.
In response, authorities deployed a significant number of police officers to the school to maintain order. As of the 23rd, following three consecutive days of collective protests, most students had successfully retrieved their deposits.
This is not the first incident at this school. Back in 2024, a transfer student had only been enrolled for four months, and their parents were forced to spend tens of thousands of yuan. The parents witnessed a coach violently assaulting their child, who was beaten to the point of suffering a mental disability and required hospitalization, resulting in expenses of tens of thousands of yuan.
Netizens have commented: This is nothing short of a hellish underworld run by organized crime!
This extreme bullying and exploitative situation has sparked widespread outrage among netizens on platforms such as Weibo, Zhihu, Douyin, and X, with discussions primarily focusing on four key areas:
The so-called 'prestigious martial arts school' has devolved into a living hell.
After viewing the video, netizens expressed extreme discomfort, harshly criticizing the school for promoting itself as a Shaolin and traditional martial arts institution while privately violating human dignity. 'It was supposed to be about physical strength and righteousness, but instead, they first learned to abuse and submit.' Some even sarcastically noted, 'The speed at which the authorities handle the video is faster than their response to campus violence! Can they really silence the victims and heal their psychological trauma?'
This situation exposes the 'local emperors' of fully enclosed martial arts schools and the pervasive culture of gift-giving.
Numerous former students have disclosed that fully enclosed martial arts schools have long been devoid of external oversight, with coaches exercising absolute authority and engaging in various forms of extortion. Parents often believe that spending money on gifts and red envelopes can ensure their children's safety, yet their children still endure hardships, being treated as endless sources of cash. Additionally, some netizens point out that parents, seeking to avoid dealing with their unruly children, send them to these schools, unaware that this environment has become a breeding ground for bullying.
The school has faced harsh criticism for its exploitative practices, with even students' funds being misappropriated.
In response to the school's actions of forcibly withholding deposits from hundreds of students for over a decade—only returning the funds when alumni united to assert their rights—netizens have derisively remarked that the school's behavior is "extremely unseemly." What is termed a deposit is, in reality, a coerced retention, highlighting the pervasive corruption that has infiltrated the institution, treating students merely as financial instruments.
There is a call for significant judicial intervention, emphasizing that this issue cannot be resolved internally.
Despite the school's announcement of the dismissal and transfer of four coaches, public skepticism remains. Netizens are urging judicial authorities to conduct a thorough investigation into the school's management and the associated profit networks, and to comprehensively assess the legal shortcomings of fully enclosed schools; otherwise, once the initial outrage subsides, similar tragedies are bound to recur.
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