A video showing children from an impoverished area of central China pouring away their free school milk because teachers feared they might take it home and drink it after it had soured has sparked a debate on how best to care for vulnerable youngsters.
The footage, which appeared last week on Weibo – China’s Twitter-like platform – shows pupils at Luohong Centre Primary School in Longhui county, Hunan province, tipping cartons of milk into a drain, The Beijing News reported on Thursday.
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