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Dormitory peepholes upset students
By Li Qian |
November 20, 2012, Tuesday
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A middle school in Wenzhou, eastern Zhejiang Province, installed peepholes on dormitory doors to watch students and this sparked a protest over invasion of privacy.
About 470 students live in the dormitory building of Longwan Experimental Junior High School and their rooms were recently fitted with peepholes, through which teachers can see what is going on inside, the Wenzhou Metropolis Daily reported.
But many students are unhappy with the peepholes. "I feel uneasy and unsafe knowing I am being watched," a girl student said. Others said they used to do anything they like in the room and now they have to go to the bathroom to change clothes.
In protest, some boys blocked the peepholes with toothpaste, the paper said.
He Xiaozhen, a school official, said they installed the peepholes two weeks ago to prevent students playing video games and violating school rules. It is still on a trial stage.
"Advantage obviously outweighs disadvantage," said the school president, Cai Chaohui.
But a Zhejiang lawyer, Jin Bingcong, said the school has infringed on the privacy of its students.
"It may affect the students' psychological development and put overwhelming pressure on teenagers," He Jincai, a Wenzhou psychologist, told the paper.
About 470 students live in the dormitory building of Longwan Experimental Junior High School and their rooms were recently fitted with peepholes, through which teachers can see what is going on inside, the Wenzhou Metropolis Daily reported.
But many students are unhappy with the peepholes. "I feel uneasy and unsafe knowing I am being watched," a girl student said. Others said they used to do anything they like in the room and now they have to go to the bathroom to change clothes.
In protest, some boys blocked the peepholes with toothpaste, the paper said.
He Xiaozhen, a school official, said they installed the peepholes two weeks ago to prevent students playing video games and violating school rules. It is still on a trial stage.
"Advantage obviously outweighs disadvantage," said the school president, Cai Chaohui.
But a Zhejiang lawyer, Jin Bingcong, said the school has infringed on the privacy of its students.
"It may affect the students' psychological development and put overwhelming pressure on teenagers," He Jincai, a Wenzhou psychologist, told the paper.
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