on the 5th floor of the School premises.
In view of this, the
teachers asked Sister Leung to arrange for them a meeting to
see Sister Wu. Sister Leung tried but finally informed the
teachers that Sister Wu was being busily engaged. At length,
the teachers asked to contact Sister Wu on the phone, and Sister
Leung helped to make the contact. On the phone, Sister Wu told
one of the teachers that if the teachers wanted to make an
appointment with her, they must explain to her in writing why they
wanted to see her, and then she would consider the appointment.
When the teachers said that they had already talked to Sister Leung
about the serious problem the day before, Sister Wu replied that
any communication between her and Sister Leung had nothing to do
with the teachers. She added that the two teachers could not
represent all the other teachers of the school. Under such
circumstances, the two teachers decided to have a meeting with
all their colleagues for the reason that many of them only had
some knowledge of the financial irregularities, but not at all
in details. At the meeting, individual teachers reported what
they had uncovered. Although some of the allegations could not
be verified, they agreed unanimously that the problem was a
serious one. They decided to sign a joint letter, formally
asking for a meeting with the Mother Superior, and the School
Management Committee on April 11. And they also elected three
representatives, namely Mr. Chan Chung-ling, Miss Fan Mei-yung
and Mr. Shek Kang-chuen to be their spokesmen at future meetings
with the school authority over the financial irregularities.
3. Meeting with Management Committee on April 11
In the afternoon of April 8, Sister Leung telephoned
to tell Chan Chung-ling that the Mother Superior and the Management
Committee would meet the teachers on April 11. At 9 a.m. that day,
a meeting between the two parties started in the staff room of
the school.
Present were all the teaching and clerical staff,
Sister Wu, Mother Superior, Sister Leung, Principal and Supervisor,
Sister Fan Ling-chi and Sister Lau Mui-kwai, Managers of the
Management Committee, and Father Hong Kin-cheung, advisor of the
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