Part III The Students' Demand for Explanation and the Subsequent
Sit-in
A) The rumours after the resignation of Sister Leung Kit-fun
While teachers were waiting patiently for the results of
the investigation from the Education Department, rumours of
political nature started spreading within and outside the school.
i) As early as April 14, when the teachers were having a
meeting with the Management Committee, there were rumours from
catholic students of the school that Sister Leung was toppled
by the "leftist" teachers. Soon, similar rumours spread out in
a number of parishes. The matter, originally concerned with
mere financial irregularities, thus became very intricate.
Students began conjecturing the real reason for Sister Leung's
resignation. They questioned the teachers about the truth.
first, the teachers tried not to answer students' questions
before the Education Department disclosed the results of the
investigation.
·2)
But as time went by, the rumours intensified.
At
On May 1, a letter from a reader signed "a student's
parent" was published in the "Popular Daily". The letter pointed
out that a certain Sister Leung, former principal of a girls'
school in Homantin, had resigned for political reasons. The
parent went on to say that the school had already been infiltrated
through by "left-wing" teachers, Recently the conflict between
the former principal and the "leftist" teachers intensified and
became so acute that the principal was bombarded by the teachers
and forced to resign. The letter also stated that there were fre
quent closed-door staff meetings in the staff room before and after
Sister Leung's resignation. All students were forbidden to walk
near the scene. These meetings, the parent said, were intended
to conspire against the ex-principal.
B) Refusal of the Management Committee to clarify_the_rumours
1) Seeing that the rumourshad become so widespread, the
teachers wrote to ask the Management Committee haping they would
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