career mistresses. A number of office clerks, school janitors
and laboratory assistants were also employed. And Carolina
Kwan, who claimed that she was the "cousin" of the new principal,
They all supported the new principal and
became the secretary.
implemented her policy.
With the full support of the Church and the Education Depart-
ment, Miss Kwan put her policy into practice with all confidence.
B. The Persecution Campaign Against The Old Teachers
1. The smearing campaign
She
i) As early as August 1977, before she had any contact with
the old teachers, Miss Hilda Kwan defamed them at..the presence
of the non-
n-teaching staff saying that the old teachers were
trouble-makers who had already ruined their own prospects.
asserted at the same time that there could never have been any
financial irregularities in the school as the school books had
been audited yearly by the Education Department. She also threa-
tened the old non-teaching staff that they would not be able
to get jobs again if she dismissed them.
ii)
At the staff meeting on Sept. 1a 1977, Miss Kwan told
the teachers that she had learned about every one of them well
and implied that when any teacher left the school, the recom-
mendation letter from her was of utmost importance. She also
reminded the teachers that promotion to senior positions waited
to be decided.
iii, On recruiting new teachers, Miss Kwan told them to contend
against the old teachers who had exposed the embezzlement and
said she would dismiss all of them sooner or later. she repeated
those words on several occasions. Some friends of the old teachers
having applied for a teaching post can testify to this.
iv)
On distributing school reports to parents of Form 4 students,
the principal told some of them that the old teachers were trouble-
makers and she had already made reports about them to the Edu-
cation Department.
She was only waiting for the consent of the
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