China’s ‘Ice Boy’ told to leave new private school after a week

China’s “Ice Boy”, whose photograph went viral on the internet after his freezing trek to school in an impoverished area of western China, has been removed from his new private school after just over a week because the headmaster says it cannot cope with the intense extra scrutiny from the authorities and pressures from the media.

Wang Fuman, eight, started attending Xinhua School in Zhaotong in southwestern Yunnan province late last month.