A primary school in Zhuhai’s Jinwan District has been charging students a 1 yuan fee to enter classrooms for an afternoon nap, a parent recently revealed online. The school has admitted that it has been doing this since September 2010, Southern Metropolis Daily reports.

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Students above grade 2 are not given dormitories and some live too far away to walk home during their lunch break. For this reason, many have no choice but to pay the fee to have an afternoon rest in the classroom.

Although ethically dubious, parents told the newspaper there wasn’t much they could do about the move.

The original report has been forwarded over 10,000 times on Sina Weibo.

Most netizens have attacked the school with some calling its actions “disgraceful.” One Sina Weibo user opined that the whole thing was so ridiculous it probably isn’t even true.