在校学生为自身权益发起的维权行动：向校方或机构反映、投诉、抗议、公开曝光，从宿舍条件、强制实习到人身安全和信息隐私。
On the evening of October 30, a large number of students at the Gaoyao School of Zhaoqing Gaoyao District Shimen Middle School (Group) (Gaoyao No. 2 Middle School) gathered in their dormitories to demand that the school turn on the air conditioning. The humidity that night reached over 90%, making it feel stiflingly hot.
On the evening of October 29, Longchuan County Experimental Middle School in Heyuan, Guangdong, experienced a power and water outage for several hours due to equipment failure. Students, unable to study or live normally, demanded to leave the school. Because the electric gate was malfunctioning and school leaders refused to let them out, the students gathered at the school gate, shouting in unison to be allowed to go home.
At 10:40 p.m. on October 16, after evening self-study ended at Wuzhou No. 7 Middle School in Wuzhou, Guangxi, a school leader surnamed Zhang, citing the excuse that "only 20 people asked for leave tonight," opened just a single lane at the school gate turnstile for hundreds of students to pass through. Several students missed the last bus, and students posted online to complain.
On October 15, a netizen posted to expose that Nanjing Audit University had launched a “Dormitory Anomaly Analysis” feature in its student affairs system, matching dormitory and campus gate turnstile data with class schedules to automatically record class absences and anomalies; in serious cases, students are disciplined according to the student handbook. Students posted to question this and reported that the “Direct Feedback Box” in WeChat Work could not be opened.
On October 2, a netizen revealed that after a student at Xiuyuan Middle School in Shuyang, Suqian, Jiangsu, reported to the education bureau that the school was giving only one and a half days off for the National Day holiday, the student received a phone call from someone claiming to be a teacher in the principal's office, was questioned with "if you don't want to study, then don't," and was scolded. The student's complaint information was suspected of having been handed over to the school. The school responded that it was a teacher's personal act, drawing criticism.
On September 30, a middle school student in Handan posted a long essay accusing school leaders of being keen on superficial projects, with thousands of students forced to accompany leaders in a “drill,” grades treated as achievements, holidays exploited, and free will suppressed.
On September 30, the brother of the female student who fell to her death circulated the account of the incident in a campus WeChat group she had belonged to, saying his sister excelled in both character and academics, was a Chinese Communist Party member and the head of her master's class, questioning school leaders for ignoring students' lives, saying he had already been removed from the dormitory group, and appealing to anyone with information across the school and the entire internet for help.
On September 25, Yan Zongmin, principal of Kangjie Middle School in Yuncheng, Shanxi, responded to recent controversies: he stated that staggered holidays during the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day were due to poor communication; admitted that the national flag was not raised to the top during the flag-raising ceremony and that the September 18 warning education was poorly handled; and claimed that the blackboard newspaper text was verified by the police as being self-created by students, reading phrases like "Long live Comrade Mao Zedong," while adding that the students' method of posting notes to express demands was unacceptable and that the police had intervened in the investigation.
Hundreds of former students of the Shaolin Tagou Martial Arts School gathered at the school for three consecutive days, demanding the return of deposits that had been withheld for a long time, during which conflicts broke out with the school.
Students at Zhongshan Memorial Middle School in Guangdong chanted in residential buildings to protest after the school broke its holiday promise by cutting the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday down to just one day.
On September 20, inside a classroom at Qiqihar No. 3 Middle School in Heilongjiang Province, students wrote messages such as "not a single penny of corruption spared" and "not a single regular class taught" on their desks or walls, protesting the school's teaching quality and integrity issues.
On September 14, families of multiple victims in Lishui, Zhejiang, held portraits of the deceased and went to the headquarters of Lishui Public Transport Group Co., Ltd. to conduct rights defense. The family members stated that their father was killed after being struck by a bus while performing road work. Nearly three months after the incident, the bus company has yet to provide a clear response, prompting the family to visit the company to demand accountability.
On September 11, 2026, a senior student at Dongguan Experimental Middle School had his night snack taken by first- and second-year students after a late class dismissal. After reporting to the school, the administration posted a notice on the bulletin board, including the statements “The teacher wants you to rank in the top 100 of the grade, can you do it?”, “Your parents want you to get into a 985 university, can you meet the requirement?”, and “Don’t always expect others to satisfy you, learn to empathize.” The incident sparked heated discussion online, with netizens questioning the school’s pressure tactics. The next day, September 12, the original poster’s account was deleted.
On September 12, Liu Anjun went to the Beijing Guangnei Police Station and other departments to demand clarification on Sun Meihua's suspected abandonment, trafficking, and purchase of persons, and was told that the case was still ongoing and that information was kept confidential from non-direct family members.
In September 2026, students at several high schools in Zhengzhou collectively exposed on social media their schools’ forced extra classes and excessively long schedules, and filed online joint petitions to the Henan Provincial Department of Education and the mayor’s hotline, protesting the schools’ illegal deprivation of their statutory right to rest.