Because people failed to do their duty, 4 kids died

IN THE FIRST TWO WEEKS of this month, four children attending private kindergartens in four cities in North China's Hebei province died of overheating after they were left behind and locked in their school buses. China Youth Daily comments:

The Hebei provincial education bureau issued an notice on July 14 ordering the local education authorities in the province to strengthen the management of the private kindergartens and check whether they are operating legally.

What the notice requires the local education authorities to do should be a routine practice, rather than a contingency measure that has come at the cost of four lives.