Angry Beijing education officials have shut down a school set up by villagers inside a cavern because it made China look “like a nation of cavemen.”
Orange News reports that the Getu village Cave Primary School in Guizhou province, southern China, was opened up when local education authorities refused to build a school for the remote mountain community.
The locals took matters into their own hands and built their own school inside an aircraft hangar-sized cave.
But furious politicians have closed it after pictures of the school were sent around the world, and built a new school nearby for the 186 pupils.
Former headmaster Xi Lin Chun commented: “It’s a shame. Even in the playground we didn’t have to worry about the weather as it was always dry.”