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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