Chinese school to punish pupils if parents break ‘no parking’ rush-hour rule outside campus

Children at a school in eastern China could find they have been penalised on their reports if their parents break parking regulations outside the campus, mainland media reported.

A primary school in Hangzhou, in Zhejiang province, said that those parents who parked their vehicles and failed to follow traffic rules would see their child’s general evaluation scores – for things such as behaviour, attendance and effort – lowered by the school, the provincial newspaper Qianjiang Evening News reported.

The school had drawn a yellow line along the road in front of the school gates to make the area a “No Parking” zone.

The area had previously been packed with parents’ vehicles at the end of each school day as they waited to collect their children, the report said.

Parents were told that no vehicles should be parked inside the area marked with the yellow line or they could jeopardise their child’s evaluation scores, or even the overall ranking of their class at the school.