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ROOF-TOP SCHOOLS

Friday, November 24, 1972

The operation of roof-top schools at Shek Kip Mei during the next

two or three years, will not be affected by the current rehousing scheme there,

a spokesman for the Resettlement Department said today.

He was commenting on a newspaper report that the livelihood of some

150 teachers would be affected early next year when the rehousing scheme

enters its second phase and that some 1,500 pupils, including many overaged

ones, would have no school to attend.

The spokesman said the only roof-top school which would probably have

been affected some time next year suspended its operation a few months ago

and the premises have already been returned to the Resettlement Department.

"We will inform the schools to be affected in due course and ample

time will be given them to make the necessary arrangemente before closing down.

There is no need for them to worry now," the spokesman said.

The roof-top school operators had earlier sent in requests for allocation

of school premises in the Pak Tin Estate, but they had already been allocated,

"These school operators have been told that if they wish to apply for

estate schools in other areas they can send in applications which will be

considered with others on their own merits," the spokesman added.

Any pupils wanting to transfer to other schools will be given assistance

by the Education Department.

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