A middle school in Foshan is under investigation for making students do laps after they were caught breaking a school rule by shopping at a nearby store, reports Guangzhou Daily.

The rule forbidding students from patronizing the store across the school was announced during the opening ceremony on September 1, according to the students.

A second-year student said he and his classmates were ordered to jog around the classroom building 10 times for buying soda from the store after a physical education class.

Another student said he was made to clean classrooms after school for one week in addition to the laps.

Rough young men are known to hang out at the store, explained Zhu, the school's deputy principal. But some teachers may be overzealous in implementing the ban, which is intended to protect students from bad influences, she added.

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