School short message leave still charging question

Xinhua News (reporter Wangkala) at present, Beijing Yucai School through the "Yucai Pass" information platform to parents to send notice SMS, a monthly fee of 10 yuan. A parent reflects that it was used for free and started charging this year, but the payment time is March-August, "The July or August holiday also charges, think impassability." Yesterday, Yu Cai Tong company Personage said, the charge behavior is the company behavior, does not carry the compulsion.　　Xicheng District Board of Education staff said that the service in the form of recommendations, no problem. "No message is difficult to get the school news," Mr. Zhang said, the children in Beijing Yucai schools to read the 4 grade. The first "Yucai Tong" service is free to use, the purpose is to strengthen the school and parents communication, to ensure the smooth flow of information.　　The child's head teacher, Chinese, foreign language teacher and so on often send text messages, such as what homework every day, and some school notice, one months less 20 fishes, more than thirty or forty. This year, the service starts charging.　　Mr. Zhang shows that the fee is directly collected by YUCAI company and invites parents to participate voluntarily.　　The information service charge standard is, the parents one side participates in the service, 10 yuan/person/month. Mr. Zhang said that 7 August was basically a holiday. "The children have a holiday, the school sent a few text messages, but the money also received." Say is voluntary, can not participate in words, many schools of information can not be timely access. "It is not mandatory for parents to volunteer," said Ms. Wu, who was in charge of the company's business yesterday, that the charging behavior was a corporate act, not a school-related matter. From Yucai School in the past two years free to use the time to see, the holiday teacher sent a lot of SMS traffic, such as teachers have some holiday deployment, some of the temporary school arrangements, and so on, will be sent to parents by text messages. "As an enterprise also has the cost, if the parents do not agree, may not participate, this is not compulsive." Ms Wu said that the previous two years, Yucai Tong are free to the parents of Yucai school to use.　　In response to charges, they have a free system for low-income families.　　Xicheng District Board of Education staff said that this is purely a corporate behavior, but also in the form of recommendations, so there is no problem, just let the teacher on behalf of the conduct of charges or should be corrected. Yesterday, Beijing Yucai School related officials declined to comment on the matter.