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Classes move to tea picking

A JUNIOR high school in Zhejiang Province sent its students tea picking for profit instead of having classes last week, Xinhua news agency reported today. Parents of the students in Shanghu Town Junior High School... ...full story at Shanghai Daily

from Shanghai Daily on Thu, Apr 23 2009

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