China has many issues with pollution and food safety. Sometimes it is
also criticized by NGOs over the stat of its nature and ecosystem. Now, there
is another issue that can be added to the list: toxic dyes in school uniforms.
The Education Commission in Shanghai
found that the toxic dyes were used by six manufacturers producing uniforms for
Chinese children at 21 primary and middle schools.
Among the standards that were not
met, one requires that the clothing contain no more than 20 parts per million
of aromatic amine dye, according to the national newspaper China Daily.
A dermatologist from the Shanghai
Time Plastic Surgery Hospital, Liu Bin, in an interview with the Chinese news
agency China.org suggested people “wash new clothes and then put them in the
sun to reduce the level of toxic substances.”
A Shanghai primary school student
was interviewed on television about the toxic uniforms. He said: “I think my
grades are not high because of the toxic uniforms problem.” The reporter asked
the little child one more question, if he was angry or not. He answered with a
strong: “Angry!”
All the six manufacturers
implicated in the scandal have agreed to give a full refunds and to pay
compensation.
On the social networks, one
schoolteacher wrote, “our education system has been given one more task – to
send the suits to the testing authorities and then to send it out to students
after quality is confirmed. “
For this teacher, this is a good
solution to ease parents’ concerns and make sure students wear safe items. But
she also asks: “Is the school the one who has to be responsible for testing the
quality?” She goes even further with her concerns: “If we buy food from the
market, should we need to send the food to the testing authorities before we
eat it?”
Parents also complain about the
quality of the uniforms their children have to wear. “Chinese schools unifors
all have similar characteristics, they are just made with bad materials.”
For some locals the summer suits
are as thin as a rag and they remember when they were in school themselves.
“Back at that time, we got the new suits one day and as soon as one of my
friends washed it, it just turned into a rag that could be used to do the
cleaning.”
Another user complains about how
school uniforms easily turn io an ugly color. “Most of the suits among Chinese
schools do not have a design. Schools like sportswear, but there is only two
sports classes per week, so why is it so “sporty”?”
In the case of lawyer Wu Dong, he
thinks it is necessary to first consider whether students have to wear uniforms
or not and also who should be in charge of the purchase.
The first case of toxic uniforms
first hit the headlines on February 18. That day, the Shanghai education
authorities announced that more than 26,000 students were ordered to stop
wearing their uniforms.
Now, inspection departments are
testing samples of all the primary and high school uniforms in Shanghai before
they are distributed for sale.
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