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as her personal and direct involvement in the financial mismanagement, we were given to understand that she had set herself a five-year period in which to try out her educational ideas. If the experimentation did not succeed
or if the methods practised were found not acceptable to the community or to the Roman Catholic Church, she would simply withdraw herself from the School, disengaging herself from the experiment she had initiated. We have reasons to believe
that indeed some time before the disclosure of financial irregularities in April 1977, she had already contemplated resigning. We feel obliged to point out the utter irrespon- Isibility of such an attitude. Sister Leung was well intentioned
in trying to put into practice a number of good ideas to improve secondary education in Hong Kong. However, we cannot help getting the impression that while she was completely confident in herself, she lacked the personal integrity, intellectual ability and fortitude to lead properly the kind of school that
she wanted to create. As it transpired, financial irregularities of the School and the events that followed turned the positive beliefs in justice and spirit of inquiry instilled in the students into negative attitudes of intolerance and excessive
emotional indignation.
IV.
Developments from Disclosure of Financial Mismanagement to Students' Sit-in in June 1977
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In the running of schools in the aided sector, line taken by the Education Department has always been to place considerable trust in the sponsors. In the case of the Precious Blood Golden Jubilee Secondary School there had been, as far as we are aware, no regular visits to the School
It is conducted by supervisory staff of the Department. understandable that the Department had not given the School any special attention prior to the disclosure of financial
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