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neither side was fully in the right and as the presentation
of facts in most cases had appeared to us to be coloured
by emotional bias.
Suffice it to say that both sides
had initiated action which came to be considered as provo-
cative by the other side, leading to further reactions. The
main victims in this state of confrontation, we feel, were
the students. In view of the attitudes and ideals inculcated
in them since the establishment of the School, as well as
the close relationship with their teachers, it was understandable
that the students had little choice but to identify and
sympathize with those teachers who opposed the new Principal
and whatever she was thought to represent. It was during
the course of the 1977/78 school year that, in our view,
the ideals of Sister Leung and her colleagues came to be
distorted by the development of conflict and strife brought
about by financial mismanagement. With their regard for the
spirit of inquiry and pursuit of justice, coupled with their
own organising ability which they had acquired through the
years, the majority of the students, not surprisingly, took
sides. In so doing, they unfortunately manifested the following
disquieting features:
(a)
(b)
Use of group pressure, not only vis-a-vis
the authorities but also against the less
active among their own numbers;
Intolerance towards differing view points
of others;
(c)
A narrow outlook of life, devoid of the ability to accept the existence of grey
between black and white; and
/(a)
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