Over 10,000 Chinese school children perished under the rubble of shoddily built schools that couldn't resist the impact of the recent earthquake. Poorly built schools, official neglect and corruption have been blamed as primary reasons for these tragic deaths. Widespread inequality in Chinese society was evident as in some provinces schools for the elite withstood the quake while public schools fell under the rubble. Over 7,000 classrooms were destroyed, most of them taking their occupants along with them. What harm did innocent children do? A detailed story  was published in the International Herald Tribune on May 25, 2008, available at: http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/25/asia/school.php