6.
31 In August Miss Hilda Kwan interviewed for new teachers. She set the restriction
that all new teachers must be Catholics. According to some of the interviewees
the Principal, Miss Kwan, had deliberately smeared the image of the old teachers,
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asked the interviewees to asist her to 'fight' against the old teachers; and expressed
during private conversations her determination to fire ultimately all of the old
teachers.
за On August 29, on a parents' day for the new students, Miss Kwan badly distorted the
image of old students and teachers and persuaded new students not to approach old ones.
33 On September 1, 1977, just one day before the new school term began, the Principal
called for the first staff meeting. This was the first occasion for the old teachers
to meet the Principal and the new teachers. Unly on at day, the Principla allotted
the teachers the classes and subjects that they were supposed to teach, and they
Just a were thus given only one day to prepare for the lessons. Home of the old teachers
were allotted to teach Form 1, the new students.
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From September onwards: under the headship of Miss Kwan, the following practices
were adopted:
(1) Two Vice- principalships were created and two new teachers filled them.
(2) The old and the new teachers were treated as two separate groups. Form 1
students were asked not to mix with old students. In frout of Form 1 students
and their parents Miss Kwan described the old students as a 'boil' and children
who had grown up 'drinking water in the gutter'.
(3) Teachers were not allowed to interview parents without the presence of the
Principal.
(4) Extracurricular activities were discouraged.
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3 From September onwards, it was learnt from various sources that some ei teachers
would be dismissed sooner or later due to the exposure of the financial irregularities
in the past year.
36 On October 7, 1977, a domestic science teacher found the amount of one of her
receipts submitted to the School had been altered without her knowledge. An ex-
planation was demanded from Miss Kwan, but it was rejected.
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On October 10, a letter was sent to Miss Kwan making the same request. No reply
was given. A letter was sent to the Education Department requesting an investigation
into the matter. Some teachers and clerical staff members jointly requested Bishop
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