Are Hong Kong’s teachers radicalising youth? Ex-leader and lawmaker clash over accusation A war of words erupted on Sunday between former Hong Kong chief executive Leung Chun-ying and a lawmaker representing teachers after the ex-leader accused elements of the profession of radicalising the city's youth. Leung also defended his controversial naming and shaming on Facebook of 18 teachers charged over last year's anti-government protests, a move critics likened to Cultural Revolution-era persecution. Lawmaker Ip Kin-yuen, of the Professional Teachers' Union, which has a 100,000-strong membership, accused Leung of hypocrisy for ignoring the government's role in driving young people to radicalism. Get the latest insights and analysis from our Global Impact newsletter on ... Continue reading... https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/othe...nd-lawmaker-clash-over-accusation/ar-BB1a9fIH Are Hong Kong’s teachers radicalising youth? Ex-leader and lawmaker clash over accusation Leung also defended his controversial naming and shaming on Facebook of 18 teachers charged over last year's anti-government protests, a move critics likened to Cultural Revolution-era persecution. Continue reading... https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/othe...nd-lawmaker-clash-over-accusation/ar-BB1a9fIH
Are Hong Kong’s teachers radicalising youth? Ex-leader and lawmaker clash over accusation A war of words erupted on Sunday between former Hong Kong chief executive Leung Chun-ying and a lawmaker representing teachers after the ex-leader accused elements of the profession of radicalising the city’s youth. Leung also defended his controversial naming and shaming on Facebook of 18 teachers charged over last year’s anti-government protests, a move critics likened to Cultural Revolution-era persecution. Lawmaker Ip Kin-yuen, of the Professional Teachers’ Union, which has a 100,000-strong membership, accused Leung of hypocrisy for ignoring the government’s role in driving young people to radicalism. Leung told a radio programme on Sunday that while social unrest had ... Continue reading... https://sg.news.yahoo.com/former-hong-kong-leader-education-124937813.html
Hounding teachers in the national security law era is one thing Hong Kong doesn’t need Of all the assaults on freedom in this city since the promulgation of the national security law (NSL) in June, the most disturbing have been directed at the teachers charged with educating our children. It is one thing to wave the NSL at violent anti-government protesters in the streets, but quite another to wield it against teachers in primary and secondary schools, who dare to invite free discussion and comment on Hong Kong’s increasingly rancid political scene. Now that a teacher has been deregistered by the Education Bureau – i.e., banned from teaching for life – for designing a lesson ... Continue reading... https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/othe...ng-hong-kong-doesn-e2-80-99t-need/ar-BB1a9IKo Hounding teachers in the national security law era is one thing Hong Kong doesn’t need Of all the assaults on freedom in this city since the promulgation of the national security law (NSL) in June, the most disturbing have been directed at the teachers charged with educating our ... Continue reading... https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/othe...-one-thing-hong-kong-doesn-t-need/ar-BB1a9IKo
