Student’s worst nightmare: Chinese university sends grades straight to parents
- Shenzhen students complain that they were asked to provide addresses for ‘security reasons’
- Some worry they will have some explaining to do after they found out results were delivered to their parents
Every university student’s worst nightmare has become reality in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, where a college has sent detailed grade reports straight to parents.
The unusual move came to light when unidentified students from Shenzhen University complained on social network WeChat that they had been asked to provide their parents’ addresses for “security reasons”, Shenzhen Evening News reported on Wednesday.
The students were perturbed when they later found out that their results had been sent by special delivery to their parents instead of them.
“Shenzhen University has magically sent my grades to my parents,” according to a screenshot of one student’s WeChat post included in the report. “I’m not sure how my mum will react once she sees that I’ve taken modules in sexology.”
Another student from the university wrote: “Seeing my roommates trying their best to explain their grades to their mums, and telling them how many credits they must study for, is making me a bit nervous. I’m wondering if I will get a call from my dad tonight.”
The report also included photos of a letter with the grades of a student from the university’s College of Life Sciences and Oceanography that was posted on WeChat.
But according to the newspaper, the letters were not delivered to the parents of all students at the university.