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#Education #FailedState
HK Governmentd Makes #LiberalStudies a Scapegoat for Social Discontent
Hong Kong's Education Bureau (#HKEB) announced on Nov 26, 2020 their plans to reform Liberal Studies, including changing the grading to a pass/fail system, and requiring student to join a study tour to China.
Former lawmaker of the education sector Ip Kin-yuen criticized the proposed curriculum reform for covering up government failures in handling the social discontent about the extradition bill and shifting blame onto Liberal Studies for making students "radical".
He added that the proposed change is apparently putting political consideration above educational professionalism, with a goal to weaken students' critical thinking by inserting politically correct elements.
Ip pointed out that the government also ignores the review report published by the Task Force on Review of School Curriculum in September 2020.
The Secretary for Education Kevin Yeung Yun-hung said that the unit "Hong Kong Today" in Liberal Studies is not for news discussion; whereas Ip stressed that Liberal Studies teaches news-relevant topics including personal development, society and globalization.
"There is no reason to ban the discussions of current affairs," Ip said. He described the government's plan as an act of setting up new limitations for education, and slammed the exclusion of news discussions.
Source: Stand News #Nov26
#IpKinYuen #YeungYunHung #HongKongToday #Curriculum #EducationBureau #Censorship #Brainwashing
HK Governmentd Makes #LiberalStudies a Scapegoat for Social Discontent
Hong Kong's Education Bureau (#HKEB) announced on Nov 26, 2020 their plans to reform Liberal Studies, including changing the grading to a pass/fail system, and requiring student to join a study tour to China.
Former lawmaker of the education sector Ip Kin-yuen criticized the proposed curriculum reform for covering up government failures in handling the social discontent about the extradition bill and shifting blame onto Liberal Studies for making students "radical".
He added that the proposed change is apparently putting political consideration above educational professionalism, with a goal to weaken students' critical thinking by inserting politically correct elements.
Ip pointed out that the government also ignores the review report published by the Task Force on Review of School Curriculum in September 2020.
The Secretary for Education Kevin Yeung Yun-hung said that the unit "Hong Kong Today" in Liberal Studies is not for news discussion; whereas Ip stressed that Liberal Studies teaches news-relevant topics including personal development, society and globalization.
"There is no reason to ban the discussions of current affairs," Ip said. He described the government's plan as an act of setting up new limitations for education, and slammed the exclusion of news discussions.
Source: Stand News #Nov26
#IpKinYuen #YeungYunHung #HongKongToday #Curriculum #EducationBureau #Censorship #Brainwashing
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#Censorship
Catholic Newspaper Makes Unauthorized Deletions in Article Critical of HK Government and Police
An article by the Justice and Peace Commission of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese was printed in the Catholic newspaper Kung Kao Po, but with statements removed without the commission's consent.
The deleted content included criticisms against the Hong Kong government's decisions during the Anti-ELAB movement, as well as the police's lack of respect for human life.
In a response to media, Kung Kao Po said they hope the Commission would respect their editorial freedom, and denied that they were ordered to censor their content.
The article, titled "What Price a Life?", was printed in the Justice and Peace Commission column in issue #4006 of the newspaper.
According to a statement by the Commission, the newspaper deleted parts of the article, and published the edited version without their consent: "We hereby solemnly declare that the edited article has no relation to us."
The commission had contacted the paper multiple times to express that they did not accept the edit, "yet their chief editor did not respect our wishes, and published in our column the edited version, which we do not agree with. We deeply regret the paper's decision."
The original text provided by the Commission shows that three sentences were deleted by the paper. These included statements critical of the government and police force during the anti-ELAB movement:
"Yet the government had also made decisions during the anti-ELAB movement that caused the public to worry that a humanitarian crisis may be developing."
"However, the non-elected HKSAR government has time and again neglected human dignity; if the police force, which ought to defend the safety of the people, had neglected the value of human life; how can such a Hong Kong be repaired and restored?"
"Even though speaking the truth today may cause an 'even higher level' threat to be brought down upon us, we can no longer fall back and compromise."
Source: Stand News #Nov26
#WhiteTerror #FreedomOfPress #SelfCensorship #KungKaoPo
#JusticeandPeaceCommission
Catholic Newspaper Makes Unauthorized Deletions in Article Critical of HK Government and Police
An article by the Justice and Peace Commission of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese was printed in the Catholic newspaper Kung Kao Po, but with statements removed without the commission's consent.
The deleted content included criticisms against the Hong Kong government's decisions during the Anti-ELAB movement, as well as the police's lack of respect for human life.
In a response to media, Kung Kao Po said they hope the Commission would respect their editorial freedom, and denied that they were ordered to censor their content.
The article, titled "What Price a Life?", was printed in the Justice and Peace Commission column in issue #4006 of the newspaper.
According to a statement by the Commission, the newspaper deleted parts of the article, and published the edited version without their consent: "We hereby solemnly declare that the edited article has no relation to us."
The commission had contacted the paper multiple times to express that they did not accept the edit, "yet their chief editor did not respect our wishes, and published in our column the edited version, which we do not agree with. We deeply regret the paper's decision."
The original text provided by the Commission shows that three sentences were deleted by the paper. These included statements critical of the government and police force during the anti-ELAB movement:
"Yet the government had also made decisions during the anti-ELAB movement that caused the public to worry that a humanitarian crisis may be developing."
"However, the non-elected HKSAR government has time and again neglected human dignity; if the police force, which ought to defend the safety of the people, had neglected the value of human life; how can such a Hong Kong be repaired and restored?"
"Even though speaking the truth today may cause an 'even higher level' threat to be brought down upon us, we can no longer fall back and compromise."
Source: Stand News #Nov26
#WhiteTerror #FreedomOfPress #SelfCensorship #KungKaoPo
#JusticeandPeaceCommission