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(c) The attitudes and sense of values inculcated
amongst the students by Sister Leung and
the teachers, as well as the close relationship
existing between teachers and students; and
(a) The professed fear on the part of those
teachers who had played a part in the disclosure of financial mismanagement that
their careers would be jeopardized as a result
of possible reprisals taken against them. (On
the other hand it is noted that the Management
Committee did send a letter to the teachers
on the 1st May 1977, assuring them that their
employment would not be affected.)
The inadequate appreciation which the Education Department
had of the situation seemed to have prevented it from recogni-
zing the fact that the teachers' disclosure of the financial
mismanagement at the School was a justifiable act in itself,
and led it to accept too readily the over-simplified view
that these teachers were agitating for trouble. Such a view,
we feel, had a direct bearing on the new contract terms
offered to the teachers for 1977/78 which, in turn, was a
direct cause of the June 9th and 10th 1977 students sit-in
at the School.
29.
On 3rd June 1977, rather later in the year than
usual, the School Management distributed the new contracts
to the teachers and required that these be signed and returned
within 7 days. The new contract differs from the old one in
several respects but the most significant departure and one
/which
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