of the room and ordered a school janitor to lock the classroom.
All the students were very shocked and they wept and the janitor
aiso wept helplessly.
The time for students to stay in school was shortened.
School opened half an hour later and closed half an hour earlier
compared with that of the past four years. When the summer school
time table was adopted, the school was evacuated within a half
nour after the last class had ended, depriving students of any
chance to enjoy the school's facilities..
3. The lack of trust and communication
Students were asked to bring along with them their identi-
fication cards for the reason that school uniform could not prove
them to be students of the school. Everything had to be put
in writing and signed. Letters from students to the principal
had to be handed to the secretary before the principal read them.
It was ridiculous when instead of meeting the students who asked
to see her, the principal asked the office clerk to note down
the students and jot down what they said.
4. The de-educational school atmosphere
The whole school was suffering from an atmosphere of sus-
picion and hostility. starting from Oct. 1977, the school bags
of the students had been secretly searched many times; a labo-
ratory assistant newly employed by the principal always took pic-
tures of students inside the school premises despite the objec-
tion of the students; conversations were taped; "black lists"
of students were compiled; the police were called at the disposal
of the principal regardless of the feelings of the students; and
parents were asked to see the principal for their children kept
on asking the school in writing not to keep them out in the street
until half an hour before school started, to revive the Students'
Union, to open F.6 classes for the F.5 graduates, to explain the
secret search of the school bags, etc. Besides, the old girls
were not allowed to visit the school or attend activities organized
for the whole school. On one occasion, it was only after waiting
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