Hong Kong CEO defiant over removing teacher speaking about freedom of speech
Hong Kong has been urged by Beijing to ‘cut off’ the ‘black hands’ influencing the local education system
Hong Kong — Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam defended disciplining teachers for promoting anti-China views, after the Asian financial centre for the first time revoked an educator’s registration over the content of their lessons.
Lam told reporters on Tuesday she was obliged to protect students from being drawn into the political disputes that have fueled a historic wave of unrest in the former British colony. She was responding to questions about the education bureau’s decision to deregister a primary school teacher accused, according to local media reports, of giving students worksheets about freedom of speech and independence...
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