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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1981
•OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS MY COLLEAGUES IN THIS COUNCIL HAVE BEEN STAGGERED TO DISCOVER THAT THE GOVERNMENT OF HONG KONG DOES NOT RECOGNISE THAT SCHOOLS REQUIRE EXTRA BODIES AS DEPUTY PRINCIPALS, NOT JUST PROMOTION POSTS IN THE REGULAR ESTABLISHMENT.
+THEY HAVE BEEN STAGGERED TO DISCOVER THAT I TEACH EIGHT TO TEN PERIODS EACH WEEK.
+1 CAN ASSURE YOU, SIR, THAT IF THERE IS NO RETHINK ON THE POSITION OF DEPUTY PRINCIPALS I MAY HAVE TO RESIGN FROM THIS COUNCIL IN ORDER TO PREVENT MY SENIOR STAFF AND MYSELF SUFFER ING FROM EXCESSIVE OVERWORK, SHE SAID.
SHE NOTED WITH ALARM MR ERIC HO'S SUGGESTION THAT IF INSUPERABLE DIFFICULTIES DO ARISE A REVIEW IS STILL POSSIBLE+.
+DO INSUPERABLE DIFFICULTIES IMPLY AN ENCOURAGEMENT TO
STRIKE OR WORK TO RULE?+ SHE ASKED.
ALTHOUGH SHE DEPLORED SUCH A SUGGESTION, SHE WOULD NOT FULE OUT THOSE POSSIBILITIES, POINTING OUT THAT THERE ARE
ENTY OF PEOPLE WISHING TO FERMENT TROUBLE IN THIS PLACE OF URS+.
SCHOOL PRINCIPALS, DEPUTY PRINCIPALS AND STAFF ARE ALSO EGULARLY DEALING WITH SUCH PROBLEMS AS STOLEN PROPERTY,
HTING, GAMBLING AND FRAUD.
THESE PROBLEMS, WHICH WOULD WELL BE HANDED OVER TO THE POLICE, OCCUPY HOURS OF TIME AND OFTEN CAUSE STAFF TO WORK
VERTIME, MISS BENNETT SAID.
+AT THE MOMENT SCHOOLS DO NOT HAND OVER ALL SUSPECTED OF THESE CRIMES TO THE POLICE.
+ONLY THOSE THEY FIND UNABLE TO REFORM DO THEY HAND OVER TO THE POLICE TO BE PROSECUTED IN THE COURTS.
*WITHOUT EXTRA STAFF IN OUR SCHOOLS PRINCIPALS WILL BE SORELY TEMPTED TO HAND OVER ALL SUCH PROBLEM CHILDREN TO THE POLICE.
+WE WOULD THEN HAVE FAR MORE JUVENILES AND YOUNG OFFENDERS CONVICTED IN THE COURTS AND WITH CRIMINAL RECORDS.+
MISS BENNETT REITERATED THAT MANY SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS WERE DISSATISFIED WITH THEIR PROMOTION PROSPECTS.
ALTHOUGH SHE ELABORATED THIS IN DETAIL ON MARCH 25, NO ANSWER WAS GIVEN TO HER REQUEST FOR AN EXPLANATION OF THE RATIONALE FOR PROVIDING IN THE AIDED SECTOR FEWER PROMOTION POSTS FOR GRADUATE MASTER TEACHERS COMPARED WITH THE CERT IF ICATED MASTER TEACHERS.
SHE THOUGHT THAT TEACHERS WERE WILLING TO WORK LONG HOURS FOR THE IR STUDENTS, ADDING THAT THEY WOULD WORK BETTER WERE THE IR EXTRA DUTIES RECOGNISED BY HAVING MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR PROMOTION AND FOR HAVING MORE TIME TO BE WITH THE IR STUDENTS.
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