Two students from an elementary school in eastern Fujian Province clean public toilets
(ECNS) -- An elementary school in eastern Fujian Province has stirred up debate by frequently requesting its pupils to clean public toilets, the Chinese language newspaper Strait News reported.
The private school in Jin'an District of the provincial capital of Fuzhou City asked its sixth graders to clean toilets in accordance with teacher's schedules. The children are usually rewarded with small gifts like erasers after the work.
A sixth grader said the toilets really stink and sometimes he had to use pliers to remove bottles from the human waste.
"I vomit almost every time I clean the toilets," added the student.
The head of the school said the activity is designed to improve the hands-on abilities of students and also guide them to form good hygiene habits.
The activity has been in practice among the sixth graders for about three years and proved to be effective as the toilet is now cleaner and there's also less littering, said the head.
Some parents are also behind the idea, saying the intensity of labor was not a concern for the pupils.
But there are also parents who believe sanitation workers, rather than children, should be responsible for cleaning.
