Students ought to be praised, not punished

TWO STUDENTS in the Middle School Affiliated to Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi province, complained to the local authority that the school did not obey the regulation to stop classes when there was a red alert for smog. The two students were later called to talks with school staff, one of them missing a day's class. The Paper.cn commented on Wednesday:

The two high school students were given a lesson in how cruel life can be. The injustice is even worse than the smog.

The students encountered animosity from their classmates and parents who claimed they destroyed the study environment, as well as their teachers and the local officials who denied they were punishing the two students for blowing the whistle. To the two fighters for justice, the whole world probably seems to have turned its back on them.