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WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1990
THE AD MR CHEUNG SUMMARISED THE MAJOR AREAS OF THE BILL WHICH
CONTROVERSIAL WAS THE HOC GROUP HAD STUDIED. HE NOTED THAT THE MOST
WHICH EMPOWERED THE PROPOSAL TO REPEAL THE SECTION OF THE ORDINANCE
REGULATIONS PROHIBITING
OR PROPAGANDA IN SCHOOLS
ΤΟ COUNCIL
MAKE
GOVERNOR EN SUBVERSIVE OR TENDENTIOUS ACTIVITIES AMONGST TEACHERS AND PUPILS.
POLITICAL,
AND
INSTEAD, THE
ADMINISTRATION
PROPOSED THAT THE DIRECTOR OF GROUNDS EDUCATIONAL
BY ISSUING
EDUCATION COULD EXERCISE CONTROL ON GUIDELINES TO SCHOOLS RELATING TO POLITICAL ACTIVITIES.
THIS SECTION, OTHERS WERE
HE SAID WHILST SOME LEGCO MEMBERS WERE IN SUPPORT OF
WORRIED THAT THE USE OF ADMINISTRATIVE
то SAFEGUARD
STUDENTS GUIDELINES WOULD NOT BE A SUFFICIENT
AND INDOCTRINATION
POLITICAL
REPEALING
AGAINST BIASED
INFLUENCES
UNDESIRABLE FROM
POLITICAL EDUCATION.
MR CHEUNG SAID
MEMBERS
AGREED, AFTER
WITH DISCUSSION
THE
THE CLEARLY
ADMINISTRATION, THAT THE SECTION BE AMENDED TO EMPOWER THE GOVERNOR IN
OF COUNCIL ΤΟ MAKE
PROVIDING FOR THE CONTROL REGULATIONS DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION, OR EXPRESSION OF OPINION, OF A BIASED POLITICAL NATURE IN SCHOOLS.
THE BILL ALSO PROPOSED TO AMEND THE ORDINANCE SO THAT
TO PARENT HAD NO REASONABLE EXCUSE FOR NOT SENDING HIS CHILD
SERVE AN ATTENDANCE ORDER THE DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION MIGHT PARENT TO REQUIRE THE CHILD TO ATTEND, HE SAID.
AMONG
WHERE A SCHOOL, ON THE
SOME IN RESPONSE TO CONCERN
SCHOOLS THAT THEY MIGHT SCHOOL RECOME DUMPING GROUNDS FOR
DROP-OUTS, MR CHEUNG SAID THE AGREED THAT AN ADMINISTRATION HAD
ADVISORY COMMITTEE SHOULD BE APPOINTED TO ADVISE ON THE GUIDELINES TO BE FOLLOWED IN THE
FOR CHILDREN WHO MIGHT OF SCHOOL PLACES ATTENDANCE ORDERS.
BECOME THE
SELECTION
SUBJECT
OF
USE OF
SOME CONCERN ABOUT THE NOTING THAT THERE WAS STILL ATTENDANCE ORDERS, MR CHEUNG SAID UNLESS THE CONCEPT OF COMPULSORY EDUCATION WERE NOT ACCEPTED, THERE APPEARED TO BE NO VALID GROUNDS FOR
ENSURE THAT A CHILD BE NOT TAKING REASONABLE STEPS TO
GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO RECEIVE APPROPRIATE SCHOOLING.
SECTION WHICH PROVIDED THAT ON THE NEW
NO PERSON SHOULD,
EXPEL WITHOUT THE PERMISSION IN WRITING OF THE DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION,
ORDER, THE OR SUSPEND A CHILD PLACED IN A SCHOOL UNDER AN ATTENDANCE
SCHOOLS NEEDED TO GROUP NOTED THAT UNDER THE EXISTING CODES OF AID,
FOR MORE INFORM THE DIRECTOR ONLY WHEN THE SUSPENSION OF A PUPIL WAS THAN THREE SCHOOL DAYS, MR CHEUNG SAID.
IT HE SAID THE GROUP CONSIDERED
INAPPROPRIATE TO REQUIRE A FOR SCHOOL TO SEEK THE DIRECTOR'S PERMISSION BEFORE IT SUSPENDED EVEN
UNDER AN ATTENDANCE ORDER ONE DAY, A PUPIL PLACED
ON
OF GROUNDS SHOULD BE DEALT UNSATISFACTORY CONDUCT, AS ALL PUPILS IN A SCHOOL WITH IN SIMILAR MANNER IN DISCIPLINARY MATTERS.
/TO MEET