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In any case there is no training available in Hong Kong for teachers of technical subjects. Government recruits from overseas or sends already trained teachers overseas for specialist courses. The Church schools have to rely on mission-supplied staff, or use unqualified teachers.
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The existence of this test has ruined primary teaching because of pressure on children to "pass" resulting in grotesque cramming.
A single academic test is notoriously unreliable as a measure of ability, and is also heavily biased in favour of children from "middle-class" families.
In other words the most informed section of public opinion is favoured by the present selection procedures. Parents whose children get into their own choice of school at a low fee are not the most likely to agitate for a change of system.
Even if the testing were 100% accurate it would still be necessary to ask by what right do we presume that the 15% academically most able should be the only ones to benefit from public funds, while the remaining children are left
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to the mercy of private school operators probably paying high fees for a poor education on grammar school lines (for which the test has shown them unsuitable in any case.)
Obviously it is economically sound to develop the abilities of potential university material but it is economically unsound to neglect other potential and to allow poorer sections of the community to be exploited by profiteering schools.
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Educationally the policy is also unsound because children of all abilities are following courses of a highly academic nature only suitable for prospective university material.
Politically the policy is worse than unsound
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inarticulate, poorer families feel that they are neglected and the children who attempt unsuitable grammar courses and fail their exams. at the end are discon- tented and ready to listen to propaganda of any type.
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Urgent action is needed to revise methods of deciding which children should receive secondary education at public expense.
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Urgent action is also needed to diversify courses available in existing schools as this is likely to be more acceptable to the general public than attempts to coerce children into "technical" schools.
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