A middle school in China has become the centre of a debate about society’s “worship” of high-ranking universities. Suzhou Middle School is a well-known school in Jiangsu province.

So there's a longstanding debate about whether middle schoolers should have recess like they did in elementary school or whether they should, instead, be treated more like high schoolers.

A middle school in eastern China has become the centre of a national debate about Chinese society’s “worship” of high-ranking universities. The school said that nearly all its new teachers ...