‘Shameful’: Chinese school faces backlash for demanding new students’ family wealth details

A secondary school in eastern China is at the centre of controversy for collecting the information of its fresh students’ parents, including what brand of car they drive and their values. Dongying No 1 Middle School in Dongying, Shandong province, distributed the information collection form in late June among students who were recently admitted, China Newsweek reported. Students were requested to fill in the details of their parents’ names, where they work, their titles and their mobile...

By Alice Yan