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Children at a Chinese junior school have each been given a pet egg - to encourage them to play less boisterously.

Pupils at Jinkangyuan elementary school in Kunming city have been told to keep their eggs with them at all times.

Teachers came up with the idea because too many youngsters were getting hurt through playing rough games at playtime.

“Out of concern for the safety of students we came up with the idea of letting them raise eggs,” a school spokesman told Life News Daily.

Each pupil has to write down the date he or she started keeping the egg with the one keeping it the longest without breaking it being named the ‘Egg Star’.
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