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Department were now equally convinced, particularly after
the sit-in, that at least some of the teachers were creating
trouble and had to be dealt with. It is our view that,
from this point onward, there was
a certain inevitability
in all subsequent developments.
VI.
35.
The 1977/78 School Year
The warning letters, issued to all the 35 teachers
on the 16th June appeared to the Education Department to
have put an immediate stop to further extreme action such as sit-ins at the School, but agitation in fact continued.
The teachers, now with the assistance of the Professional
Teachers Union and the support of the students, pressed
for the withdrawal of the warning letters whilst the students
also kept up their pressure on the School Management to provide an explanation satisfactory to them regarding financial
mismanagement. In the three week period between 13th June
and 6th July, there were no less than fifteen letters from
the students making the same demand. The inability of the
School Management, because the case was now under Police
investigation and therefore legally sub-judice, to satisfy
the demands and requests made by the students, thus heightened
their sense of frustration, as they were more concerned with
the moral aspect of the case. On the 23rd February 1978,
Sister Beatrice Leung was convicted on 10 counts of false
accounting. The specific charges brought against Sister
Leung which involved only a total sum of $27,930, and her
plea of guilty, precluded disclosure to the public of other
misappropriated funds. Thus the outcome of the court
proceedings had the effect of further aggravating the dis-
satisfaction of the students.
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