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which the Education Department representative served.

3. The Professional Teachers' Union

Finding no way to contact the management committee, the

teachers sought help from the educational bodies. They approach-

ed Mr. Szeto, the president of the Professional Teachers' Union,

and he tried to contact the management committee through some

renown educationists but in vain.

4. The Catholic Justice and Peace Commission

On January 20, 1978, the teachers wrote a detailed letter

to the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission. The Commission

replied on January 26 that they had transferred the letter to the

Bishop and they got no response from the Bishop either.

members of the Commission wanted to meet Miss Kwan but were re

jected.

5. The Educators' Social Action Council

Some

On Feb. 27, the 16 teachers had a meeting with the executives

of the Educators' Social Action Council (ESAC) through Mr. Szeto

Wah. The supervisor of the school, sister Lorraine, was one

of the members of the council. At the meeting, Father Collins

of the Council expressed great concern and promised to help

the teachers to contact Sister Lorraine. However, Sister Lorraine

just informed him that any meeting with teachers had to be decided

by the management committee. It was learnt later that Sister

Horraine expressed that she could do very little because over

the matter of the school Miss Kwan had direct contact with the

Education Department and there were many things she was not kept

informed.

6. The students' attempts

The students had also written to the principal, the management

committee, the Education Department and the newspapers over their

grievances but they were ignored all the same.

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