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Hong Kong teachers exit under shadow of security law, schools scramble to fill gaps
Rueters via msn ^ | 16 September 2021 | Sara Cheng in Hong Kong

Posted on 09/16/2021 8:35:10 PM PDT by blueplum

HONG KONG (Reuters) - For his last class in Hong Kong in July, liberal studies teacher Fong showed his students calligraphy by the territory's late democratic activist Szeto Wah: "Choose the right path and stick to it." He emigrated to Britain days later....

... Grace Kwok, a 33-year-old music teacher who moved to Britain in January...told Reuters some parents complained to her principal after she told pupils that Tian Han, who wrote the lyrics of China's national anthem, "March of the Volunteers," died in prison during Mao Zedong's 1960s Cultural Revolution....

...In February, Hong Kong introduced new curriculum guidelines ensuring that children as young as six learn more about China and are taught about the national security law, which made any act that Beijing regards as secession, subversion, terrorism or collusion with foreign forces punishable by up to life in prison....

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: brainwashednation; chinanationallaw; hongkong; maoism

1 posted on 09/16/2021 8:35:10 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

Was a gem of a city once.


2 posted on 09/16/2021 8:50:06 PM PDT by Bayard
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To: blueplum

The truth shall make you flee!


3 posted on 09/17/2021 12:05:19 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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