One is that the "general director" of Chaohu toilet in Anhui Province appeared in People's Daily. According to the report, in order to rectify the phenomenon of insufficient toilet allocation and dirty environment, Chaohu City set up a "toilet renovation team", with the secretary of the municipal party Committee as the "general director". The middle-level and above cadres of the Urban Management Bureau contacted a public toilet respectively, and successively invested180,000 yuan to renovate 8 public toilets and 56 dry toilets in the urban area. In the words of Hu Qisheng, secretary of Chaohu Municipal Party Committee, public toilets are necessary public facilities to meet the needs of citizens' lives, and also reflect the degree of civilization of a city. The other is the opposite, because the toilet problem caused serious casualties. On the morning of March 22, a stampede accident occurred near the toilet of the teaching building of the third experimental primary school in Puyang County, Henan Province. As of 3 pm on the 22nd, 22 students were injured in the accident, of which 1 died on the way to the hospital and 5 were seriously injured. The Puyang county government issued a notice saying that after preliminary investigation, the cause of the accident was a short break between classes, students concentrated on going to the toilet, and congestion led to trampling. The local government decided to dismiss Zhou Moumou, the principal of the primary school, and decided to renovate the toilet in the school where the accident occurred to ensure that there were toilets on each floor of the teaching building.

Obviously, Secretary Hu of Chaohu, Anhui Province regarded the "toilet revolution" as a move to improve people's livelihood, while the Third Experimental Primary School in Puyang County, Henan Province caused a student stampede because of the shortage of toilets. This is a good thing anyway, which shows that there is no small matter in the toilet from two sides. Moreover, Secretary Hu carried out the "toilet revolution" before the accident, and the Third Experimental Primary School in Puyang, Henan Province was determined to reform the toilet problem because of a major accident. Comparing two things, I'm afraid it's not just a compliment.

In response to the stampede of students in Puyang, Henan Province, someone asked why the local government departments ignored the reality that there were few squatting pits in school toilets until the accident. Some people question whether the local government should be responsible for the insufficient investment in education, because the class size of this school is seriously exceeding the standard and the school infrastructure is seriously lacking. In addition, it can not be ignored that such serious consequences of student casualties have occurred and the social impact is extremely bad. I'm afraid it's not enough to just fire a principal.

It is reported that there are 1704 students in this school. The toilet is a two-story toilet building with five toilets. There are two women's toilets with 24 squatting positions; There are three 15 men's toilets and two 5-meter urinals. There are 39 squatting positions in the school, with an average of 43 people sharing one squatting position. According to the Basic Standards for Running Compulsory Education Schools in Henan Province (Trial) (20 16 Edition), the student toilets are configured according to the number of students. Every 40 boys have a urinal or a urinal of 1.2m, and every 20 boys have a urinal of 1 or a urinal of 0.6m. Every 13 girls have 1 urinals or 1.2m urinals. Judging from the total number of squats, the toilet facilities in this primary school are obviously seriously inadequate. Because students have to go to the toilet between classes, so so few pits obviously can't meet the needs of children to go to the toilet. Faced with this reality every day, school administrators should have thought of the dangerous consequences of crowded trampling, but they did not really solve the problem of children going to the toilet. There is obviously subjective fault in this, and managers have unshirkable legal responsibility. ?

Perhaps, school administrators will point out that they can't solve the problem of insufficient toilets (such as lack of funds and space), but whether they have taken measures to try to solve it is very crucial. If they have applied to the higher authorities (such as Education Bureau and Finance Bureau), or even applied for many times to solve the problem of students' difficulty in going to the toilet, but the higher authorities have not approved it, then this responsibility should be attributed to the higher authorities, and the higher authorities should bear corresponding responsibilities for it. Of course, all these need evidence to prove. Unless the local government is really too poor to solve the difficulties, that is another matter. However, in today's society, education investment is the top priority of the state and local governments. It is incredible that such a large-scale school has no money to build enough toilets. In this way, who should bear the responsibility for this incident can be clearly divided.

Next, how to investigate the responsible person? Many people were killed and injured in the campus that should be the most secure. According to the law, in addition to administrative responsibility, the responsible person has been suspected of a criminal offence, and it is necessary to start the criminal responsibility investigation procedure according to law.

Specifically, article 138 of China's criminal law stipulates the crime of major safety accidents in educational facilities, that is, knowing that school buildings or educational and teaching facilities are in danger, failing to take measures or report in time, resulting in major casualties, and being sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention; If the consequences are especially serious, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years. The definition of "major casualty accident" in judicial interpretation is "causing more than one person to die or seriously injuring more than three people", and the harmful result of this stampede case fully meets this condition. In fact, there are not two school stampedes in China. In 2009, a stampede occurred in Xiangxiang, Hunan Province, causing many deaths and dozens of injuries. At that time, the person in charge was convicted and sentenced for the crime of major safety accidents in educational facilities.

Campus safety is an important part of public safety. How to ensure the safety of students depends on both software and hardware. We should not only do a good job in safety education and safety management, but also emphasize the improvement of campus infrastructure. Creating an absolutely safe environment for students' study and life is the basis for the government to do a good job in education, and it is also the common responsibility of school teachers and managers. In this sense, the toilet thing is really no small matter.