of writing to inquire the Education Department of the investigation
concerning the suspected financial irregularities.
They
also decided to write to the school again demanding an explanation
of the allegation.
D) Teachers' new contracts
1) With the resignation of Sister Leung, the new
Management Committee was enlarged last April to consist of 3
Precious Blood nuns and an Éducation Department representative,
Mr. P.C. Fung. One of the first things the new managers did
was to draft, with the help of the Education Department,
more restrictive contracts for all the teachers.
new,
The school used to renew contracts with the teachers in
April or May every year. But in 1977, since the exposure of
the financial irregularities of the school by the teachers,
the renewal of the teachers' contracts was delayed until early
June.
On June 3, the school issued contracts to the teachers.
The new contracts concentrated power in the hands of the
principal. The original 13 clauses of the old contract for the
past 4 years were increased to 16 and, most ominously, a new
clause (Clause14) was introduced that read: "The school
management reserves the right to dismiss, after appropriate
notice, any teaching staff who fails to observe any one of the
above regulations In the past, however, the school authority
on dismissal of a teaching staff had to abide by the Code of
Aid issued by the Education Department, which requires a school
to give reasonable verbal as well as written warnings to the
teachers concerned on dismissal or termination of the contract.
2) On June 6 and 7, two letters were sent by the
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teachers to the Management Committee, asking for clarification
of some of the terms in the contracts and requesting an amendment
on tue new Clause 14 su that teachers would be dismissed or
uave their contracts terminated in compliance with the Code or
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