On May 19, they launched a protest against the closure
They travelled on foot from the
by the Education Department.
Bishop's office to the main office of the Education Department at Causeway Bay and handed their letters of protest to its re-
presentativeş severely charging its foolish move.
D. The Continuation of the Students
Studies
1. On May 18, there were some post-secondary students helping
the students revise their lessons. In order to let the students
continue their studies, the teachers and parents asked the post-
secondary students if they could arrange places for such purposes.
Later, they reached the conclusion that from May 22. onwards, girls with the help of the post-secondary students, would continne
their studies at the premises of the Students' Union in the
Chinese University ofHong Kong.
the
In the morning, May 22, the students gathered in front
of the Bishop's office. Accompanied by the post-secondary students,
the girls travelled to the Chinese University to begin their tutorials, The teachers meanwhile announced that they would leave
two of them to continue their sit-in. Simultaneously, the teachers,
students and parents formed a joint committee to fight for the
re-opening of the school.
there
When the students reached the Chinese University,
was an assembly with speeches made by the representative of Hong Kong Federation of Students and Mr. Arthur Hinton, the lecturer of the School of Education, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Since then, the students have been continuing their studies there
while some of them later transferred to the premises of the Students' Union in the University of Hong Kong.
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