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]]> By: Kyler http://www.waysthataredark.com/2008/05/23/shoddy-schools/#comment-328 Kyler Fri, 23 May 2008 07:44:54 +0000 http://www.waysthataredark.com/?p=98#comment-328 Building codes and safety regulations can be described as spotty at best in China. The article later reports: Li's classroom had been packed with 75 students for the awards ceremony. But one of the doors was locked. The students struggled to get through the remaining door. Only 36 made it out. Students in the fifth- and sixth-grade classes upstairs also started fleeing. But only so many who could fit on the stairs at one time. A few tried to take the bridge to the teachers' building but then changed their minds and turned around. They had been told that they would be punished if they ever took that route. Building codes and safety regulations can be described as spotty at best in China. The article later reports:

Li’s classroom had been packed with 75 students for the awards ceremony. But one of the doors was locked. The students struggled to get through the remaining door. Only 36 made it out.

Students in the fifth- and sixth-grade classes upstairs also started fleeing. But only so many who could fit on the stairs at one time. A few tried to take the bridge to the teachers’ building but then changed their minds and turned around. They had been told that they would be punished if they ever took that route.

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