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THE CHUNG WAH COMMUNIST SCHOOL
Problem
A decision is required on whether the Chung
Wah Middle School in Hong Kong should be allowed
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to reopen when the existing closure order on the
school expires on 15 August. The school was
closed in November last when it was found that
the premises were being used for illegal purposes
in connection with the communist inspired
disturbances in the Colony last year.
Recommendation
2.
I recommend that the Governor be authorised
in accordance with the terms of
the attached
to close the school permanently
draft telegram.
Background
3.
Communist schools have existed in Hong Kong
since soon after World War II. Until recently
these schools (which are required to comply with
the provisions of the Education Ordinance) opera
ted in an unexceptionable manner: they
provided some education, and political indoctri-
nation did not go beyond the bounds allowed in a
tolerant society. The total number of such
schools is twenty and their aggregate enrolment
amounts to some 2% of the entire school popula-
tion of the Colony. Since the cultural
revolution in China and more particularly during
1967, political indoctrination in these schools
has been greatly intensified and the major
purpose of the schools has become that of
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