On Sept. 1, hundreds of angry parents in the Chinese city of Leiyang gathered outside six schools to protest a government plan to place 9,000 fifth- and sixth-grade children in expensive, remote, hastily constructed, and formaldehyde-laced private boarding schools.
When the protesting parents received no answers from the school authorities, they marched to a Leiyang government building and voiced their demands until riot police were sent to clear them early on Sept. 2. A large but indeterminate number of protesters were injured and 46 were arrested, locals say.
