TNAG-1724-FCO40-2437-Minutes-and-Hansards-of-the-Legislative-Council-of-Hong-Kong-1988 — Page 198

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Separately the

Education

Department conducts a

Combined Screening Programme of all Primary 1 pupils in order

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to detect visual, hearing, speech and learning disabilities.

The results of this screening are conveyed to the schools

concerned.

l.c. from Physical Education lessons

It is also the practice of schools to exempt pupils

or outdoor activities should

request on medical grounds.

Indeed

their parents so

a number

of schools, especially at the primary level, write

level, write to parents

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the beginning of each school year, asking whether l.c. children need

children need to be exempted from Physical Education lessons

for health reasons.

In view of the measures that I have just described,

Sir,

I do not consider it necessary or practical to require parents

to submit formal medical reports to the school authorities on

registration.

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