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(c)

(d)

The attitudes and sense of values inculcated

amongst the students by Sister Leung and

the teachers, as well as the close relationship

existing between teachers and students; and

The professed fear on the part of those

teachers who had played a part in the

disclosure of financial mismanagement that

their careers would be jeopardized as a result

of possible reprisals taken against them. (On

the other hand it is noted that the Management

Committee did send a letter to the teachers

on the 1st May 1977, assuring them that their employment would not be affected.)

The inadequate appreciation which the Education Department had of the situation seemed to have prevented it from recogni-

zing the fact that the teachers' disclosure of the financial mismanagement at the School was a justifiable act in itself, and led it to accept too readily the over-simplified view

Such a view, that these teachers were agitating for trouble.

we feel, had a direct bearing on the new contract terms offered to the teachers for 1977/78 which, in turn, was a

direct cause of the June 9th and 10th 1977 students sit-in

at the School.

29.

On 3rd June 1977, rather later in the year than usual, the School Management distributed the new contracts to the teachers and required that these be signed and returned within 7 days. The new contract differs from the old one in several respects but the most significant departure and one

/which

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