34.
Although there is no evidence of direct co-ercion to force children from
families in groups (a)-(e) to attend communist schools, there can be no doubt that
Not all think
many do not wish to offend the ultimate source of their livelihood.
that way however, and some of the more senior employees of communist organisations
send their children to neutral schools, or even abroad. The communists have
rationalised this situation by agreeing that a non-communist education can be
useful for those eventually to be employed in United Front work.
35.
Certain schools cater for particular categorics. Thus members of
communist unions have first call on places in the W.C.E.P.A. schools, while the
PUI KIU Middle School is clearly the prestige school, attended by children from
wealthier families, some of whom arrive in chauffeur-driven cars. Still others,
such as the Fukien Middle School have geographical associations.
Teaching in Communist Schools
36.
According to the Headmaster of the Yu Hwa Middle School, speaking in
1969, patriotic schools were expected to be "t:ses for the propagation of Mao
Thought, to train the young to be the vanguards of the revolution and to preṛare
them to be the successors of the proletarian revolution".
37.
To achieve this object the schools subject their students to a system-
atic programme of indoctrination which begins the day the child enters the school
and continues through to and after his graduation.
It is inserted at every
possible opportunity into academic studies and is the predominant theme of all
extra curricular activities. An extract from the "Work Plan" for the Fukien
Middle School can be scon at Annex 'E'. This is part of an instruction booklet
issued to teachers at this school to guide them along the "correct" lines in their
teaching, and to ensure that they "put politics to the fore". Discussion by
students is encouraged, but only for the purpose of amplification of the party
line; freedom of thought is discouraged and any tendency towards independence
provokes immediate corrective measures. The children are continually subjected
to the line that communism (HAQism) is right, and everything it opposes is wrong
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