Hebei epidemic prevention “no vacation” 100 college students break through the school gate blockade “to run to freedom”

China’s Hebei University of Geosciences announced on its own that students would not be allowed to leave the university during the May Day holiday, but as a result, a large number of students forced their way out of the fence yesterday (1) and defected to freedom. (Taken from Weibo)

In response, the school said that the students who left school without permission have been “criticized and educated”.

On May 1, about 100 students gathered at the entrance of the university and confronted with a few security guards, then the students got out from under the fence and ran outside. The security guards could only see the students off afterwards.

According to the video, the students were very excited after rushing out of the school, most of them had smiles on their faces, and seemed very happy to finally leave the school, and some gave a thumbs up to the camera. Some students revealed that after the incident, the class counselors did not blame the students too harshly, and some teachers sympathized with the students’ situation, and after the video was released on Chinese social media, most netizens were also on the students’ side, criticizing the school’s rules as being too unreasonable.

The school responded that the students who left the school without permission had been criticized and educated. The school’s teacher Zhang pointed out in an interview that the move is for safety, “no accident is good, accident will not be able to say”, he said, he is worried about an epidemic is not controllable, in the school once there is a situation can be controlled.