福建一中學學生被禁穿進口鞋 校方稱防止互相攀比

A middle school in Jinjiang, East China's Fujian Province, has apparently banned its students from wearing imported shoes to stop them from competing with each other over who has the fanciest footwear.

近日，福建省東部的晉江市的一所中學明令禁止學生穿進口鞋，從而防止學生互相攀比誰的鞋子最好。

A statement allegedly issued by the Zijiang Middle School went viral on February 24, which said that students have recently begun to compare their shoes with each other on campus.

2月24日，一份據稱是子江中學發佈的聲明被瘋傳，聲明稱該校學生最近開始互相攀比自己的鞋子。

In order to be the coolest kid on the playground, some of the students have asked their parents to purchase them expensive imported shoes, the viral statement said.

這份聲明指出，爲了讓自己成爲操場上最閃耀的明星，一些學生要求家長爲自己購買昂貴的進口鞋。

In order to curb these comparisons and promote frugality, the school says that students in some grades are now forbidden from wearing imported shoes on campus.

爲遏制這種攀比之風、提倡進勤儉節約，該校表示，某些年級的學生現在已經禁止在學校穿進口鞋。

A teacher at the school surnamed Ye confirmed with news site that the announcement is genuine and only applies to one of the school's grades.

該校一位姓葉的老師向《澎湃新聞》證實，這份公告確有其事，但是隻適用於該校的一個年級。

Ye explained that the school has previously banned students from using cellphones and made them wear uniforms. In the absence of any other sartorial or technological distinction, the students then focused on their shoes.

葉老師解釋稱，該校之前曾經禁止學生使用手機，並要求他們穿校服。在沒有好看的衣服和其他高科技設備的情況下，學生們把目光放在了鞋子上。

"Some students have even told their parents that they will quit school if they aren't given good shoes to wear," said Ye.

葉老師說道：“一些學生甚至威脅他們的父母說，如果自己沒有好的鞋子就要退學。”

However, the statement triggered heated debate online, with Net users saying that the statement implies that all Chinese shoes China are cheap.

然而，這一聲明卻在網上引起了熱議，有網民表示，這份聲明暗示了所有國產鞋都很便宜。

Netizens named several made-in-China shoes that cost thousands of yuan a pair, saying that the students could just buy these shoes and avoid any lesson in frugality.

網民們隨後列出了一些幾千元一雙的國產鞋，表示學生們可以買這些鞋子，那樣就可以避免被教育勤儉節約了。