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Wu to look into the above matter. The Bishop did not respond to this request.
Investigators from the Education Department came to the school. The domestic
science taacher requested a meeting with them but Miss Kwan refused to comply.
38 Three old teachers who had been in the school for four years resigned from the
school on October 11, Uctober 12, and October 15, respectively. A teacher re-
ceived an oral warning because he had informed the students the resignation of
a teacher.
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On October 13, 1977, Form 2D held a class meeting during the recess to discuss a basketball match with form 2C. A Vice-principal rushed to to dissose the class
meeting on the ground that they had not obtained permission from the School in
advance for such a meeting. The young girls were then locked out of their classroom.
The event led to great emotional upstir among the students as other classes learnt
of it.
On October 14, 1977, after returning from their physical education lesson at
the playground, some Form 4A students found that their bags had been searched,
which
scene,
led to an argument with a teacher. In asking some teachers to leave the
Miss Kwan said to the teachers that if the need arose, she would ask them
to help "suppress" the students. A little later, she summoned the police. The
school bookkeeper was dismissed.
41.
Between October 17 and 22, 1977, letters app ared in several Chinese newspapers
accusing some teachers of being members of a local Trotskyist organisation, and
said that the information came from a Current Affairs Committee of one of the
post-secondary institution Student Union.
The Current Affairs Commitees of the Student Unions of Hong Kong University and
Chinese University of Hong Kong issued statements denouncing the source.
The event led to vigorous reactions from the post-secondary students eversince.
Wall posters appeared in the Universities calling for revealing the oppressions
suffered by the students and teachers of Volden Jubilee School.
Between October 18 and October 22, readers' letters written by a group of old
the Principal's side
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teachers and new teachers to attack the old ones appeared in various Chinese
newspapers.
43. teaches wrote the the Management Committee requesting an interview to discuss aways of to improving Darning conditions in the school. The letter was prompted by the incident of F.2D On November 13, 1977, Mr. Lau, a teacher of the School, wrote to five of his
and F.4A.