Wall between pupils casts shame on a local government

AFTER ITS CAMPUS was claimed by the local government, a private elementary school opened for migrant workers' children in Suzhou, East China's Jiangsu province, was instructed to move to a nearby public school on Sept 1, which has incurred opposition from the parents of the children attending the public school. To soothe their anger, the education bureau of Suzhou has ordered an iron fence to be built on campus to separate the private school from the public one. Beijing News comments:

The education bureau's solution is morally flawed, and is suspected of violating the Education Law, as it is comparable to a segregation system that discriminates against the migrant workers' children.

The government should have stuck to its guns and merged the two schools as originally planned.