Writer fails to address central issue
I refer to the letter by Pierce Lam ('Self-important and judgmental teens need moral and national education', July 20).
The teens from Scholarism may need moral and national education, but they clearly do not need the brainwashing or propaganda kind.
That is the group's primary contention and it is certainly justified in view of the heavily biased teaching manual which has been produced by the National Education Services Centre, for which it is reported to have received a subsidy from the Education Bureau.
One director of the centre, Cheng Yiu-tong, a pro-Beijing trade unionist, recently advised Hongkongers not to push Beijing on the death of Tiananmen activist Li Wangyang .
Your correspondent failed to address the central issue.
Instead, there was scattershot criticism of peripheral importance around the group's name, its website's 'literal blunders', lack of political savvy, 'simple-minded' democratic and 'vacuous' anti-communist orientation, and an 'unrealistic' view of entitlements.
