My Take | Opposition to Christine Choi is opposition for opposition’s sake

I have never met Christine Choi Yuk-lin, the newly appointed undersecretary for education. I bet you haven’t, either. Yet, many people have strong opinions about her.

Her CV looks okay: long-time school teacher, principal of a large school, degrees in linguistics and Chinese literature from Baptist University and a PhD in education from the Chinese University. Good, these are legitimate universities, unlike the academic credentials of some public figures. Still, the education sector lawmaker Ip Kin-yuen has accused her of being unqualified. She had, he said, only worked as a lowly officer at one time in secondary school curriculum development at the Education Bureau. Ip and Choi were schoolmates; she might have lectured him when he was studying for a Master’s degree in education at Chinese University.