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Government stabilisation
stabilisation policy
Theonciliation and compromising approach of the Interim report is not only against the spirit of law and justice, it also leads to believe that the government is ready to give concession when things are of hand, in getting out disregard of whether it is right or wrong. The report's
of recommendation
reinstating the teachers and
re-opening the
another
government
policy.
The
Catholic
to
new
2.
Although it is right
and natural to fight for the benefit and welfare of teachers, the union's tactics to make use of the students for their ends is frightening.
3. Every person has their right of religions and political beliefs in this liberal society. But the open attack
the on
Catholic Church in order to portray one's own Amage is debasing.
4. The biased view of
young and inexperienced reporters of various news media is against the spirit of fair and just reporting.
5. Το
the satisfy interest of the public, the host of television debate was only interested in interviewing the biased side and the rightminded critics and observers were
and neglected
sometimes made embarrassed.
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6. The uninformed members of parliament being strongly influenced by the biased side, exerted their pressure and criticism on us. This leads us to feel that the traditional juristic principle was ousted.
school is example of
the stabilisation so-called righteous people and leaders used a distorted version of Bible to attack the Catholic
What Church.
is more embarrassing is the fact that the teacher union demanded the education department and the apologise and to rehire the real wrongdoers and further, they asked the headmaster of the newly formed school for settling down this matter to obey
ideas of the
disloyal teachers and students unconditionally. Law and order and justice are totally sacrificed for the benefit of
event from avoiding this happening again although this is only a reluctant resolution. I take this opportunity to ask the victimised headmistress Kwan, all the teachers, students and their parents concerned to speak up and photos of *he trouble makers in and outside the school so that we could have biased media. I am prepared to financially and unlimitedly support the organisation of such debate by inviting all parties concerned to visit the places and collect photos and fair editorials and report out findings to the Queen, the Prime Minister and all the members of Parliament. As a matte. of fact, the policy of the British government in +his
is rather respect disappointing.
debate with the
I list the following facts to the authority and all concerned for reference.
fear of their being involved and their Salary position, the education department officials took immediate action to implement the report's recommendations. Their efficiency, in this regard, it well praised but not their motive.
7. The chairman of the educational body, in the name of the union, dictates the view of fellow members. If he is not to resign, the democratic labour movement in Hongkong will be hampered.
8. The compromising
can
no
IF, at this stage of the Precious Blood Golden Jubilee School affair, any final shred of evidence was needed to demonstrate that the
of campaign
the dissident teachers and students,
receive support from any intelligent person even remotely aware of the truth of the matter, we were provided with that evidence on Saturday, when he hosts at the graduation dinner walked out on their nvited guests.
In spite of all the vituperation that these teachers and their would-be supporters have cast upon Miss Hilda Kwan, she had the humanity and the courage to turn up to an occasion which, even with all the goodwill in the world, she must have suspected would be used by
our
policy of government and the Church will destroy the law and justice of society and breeds further disorder. This, indeed, is the defect of liberal democratic society.
9.
Financial mismanagement of the school (not personal corruption) is obviously not tolerable. But why the teachers have to wait so long to disclose this affairs. Instead, they used this to "blackmail" their beloved' and democratic headmistress and
has finally she
to submit herself to the law. If those admiration for the headmistress and sisters made by the teachers and students were heartful speeches, so there must be some political conspiracy covered behind the masks because false human nature will not easily expose the ugly side to the public.
10. The new appointed headmistress has nothing to do with the financial mismanagement. She did not know much about the teachers and students, but openly blamed by was them. Further, the teachers and students used pressure to ask her to resign but cannot pinpoint her mistakes.
11. The right-minded teachers and students were all oppressed. Female and emotional teachers and students were weeping and
forced to join the group. The background of the male teachers were checked and their spirit de graded, horribly, politically and spiritually mistreated. Their double-faced
and
be a total lie to say that the support from the proven parents has ever reached ten per cent.
to
15. Opinion differs as whether the Precious is the modelling school in Hongkong or a lowest standard one directly run by the church. The teachers and students concerned and the Education Department
Blood performances in and outside the school and public spot were really astonishing. Their parents are really worrying about their livelihood marriage and this responsibility should rest on the instigators because the students are all about the ages of 13 to 14.
12. It is difficult to understand why the
did government
not investigate the political motives of the educational body's pamphlets, which for two years, have been destroying the reputation of the teachers, the church and the education department
13. Can the government explain why the teachers, who are getting taxpayers' money, can stay away from teaching, and instead, they instigate the mass means to protect themselves. If this is true to Say that it is due to the
from pressure
the MPs where is our justice?
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14. The teachers and students claimed that they have full support of all the students' parents. But in fact it is not more than 3 per cent. The right-minded parents and teachers should clarify on this point. It will
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should actual school
comment standing
on
of
the this
16. The
school
new
should be fully established and not considered as a temporary
one.
Students and
of teachers
better quality should be recruited to get rid of the terrified image. The principal and directors their
increase
should co-ordination and carry out their jobs otherwise this properly, drama may happen again.
was
17. Justice has gone but still, the headmistress Kwan being continuously oppressed. She was further a end-of-the- disgraces at term dinner which waste hundreds of portions of foods. Again the teachers and students demanded the church to regret and the headmistress Kwan resign. They thought that, as they were supported by the MPs, they can twist the fact.
Peter Leung Member of Hongkong Catholic Church
Character-assassination
the dissidents for a further outrage.
some
much-vaunted modern techniques used by these Her bearing and dignity teachers, then the sooner and openness in the face of the Ng Yuk · project is this calculated insult can abandoned the better: We only evoke admiration. can do without a training Since she took
school over the
in this form of office of principal in the delinquency. now defunct school, Miss Kwan has been systematically subjected to character-assassination by these campaigners and by the media in general. Whatever her qualities as an administrator may be, she has shown that as a person of character and principle she towers above her opponents.
If the behaviour of these teachers and students is any indication of what is meant by "progressive" education, then we truly belong to a sick society. If this is what v/e can expect from the
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the parents of the other girls must know, have been assiduous in the use of the
to telephone
harass reluctant students to force them
their to join in demonstrations.
Surely customary Chinese manners would have allowed them to use the same telephone to let Miss Kwan know of their
to intention
cancel the dinner. If the students really expect the public to believe that the humiliation of Miss Kwan was not an intentional act, then the "liberal" education they have received from these has clearly remained unsullied by any contact with ordinary walk-out, they are still intelligence or common
According to newspaper accounts, Miss Lam Kwei-hung, a student representative, stated that, though a decision had in fact already been taken to cancel the dinner, "as time was too short to inform everyone, it had been decided to go ahead with it".
This is pathetic in its
teachers naivete; but then, as Miss Kwan remarked
charitably
after
SO the
young.
The dissident students, as any one even remotely connected with
sense.
SEAN Ó CEARBHALLAIN S-J.