Reason to cry over spilt milk

IN A VIDEO widely reposted on the internet, some pupils can be seen pouring free milk provided by the local government into a gutter of a primary school in Longhui, a poverty-stricken county in Hunan province. The National Radio of China comments:

The school master, who has confirmed the authenticity of the video, told the media the school instructs the students to pour any leftover milk into the gutter and flatten the cartons before handing them to teachers for recycling, stressing that the students liked drinking the milk but they could not finish it.

He also said the school used to allow the students to take the milk back home, but since many of the students live with their grandparents, who sometimes forgot to remind the children to finish the milk before it turns sour, there were cases in which the children got sick after drinking milk that had gone off.