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Letters | Why should Hong Kong universities tolerate destructive, lawbreaking students?
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Over the past weeks, multiple video clips have gone viral showing a small band of university students mouthing profanities at their professors, restraining their movements and deliberately damaging university property.
These students, whatever their cause, show no respect for their professors and have destroyed facilities at the very universities at which they receive their education. They should be reprimanded, suspended or even expelled in accordance with university regulations.
It defeats the pedagogical objective of tertiary education if universities continue to be cowed by these unruly and lawbreaking students.
K.Y. Tan, North Point
Young protester’s injury should be wake-up call
I am writing in response to the report (“Students demand school apology after boycott pupil injured in police chase”, September 4) on Tai Po secondary school students being chased by the police. I felt furious when I learned about this. Both the police and radical protesters are to blame.
I am an alumnus of the injured student’s school. Seeing my dearest teachers and former schoolmates upset, I urge protesters to stop using violence and the government to face the issue bravely. It should not allow these accidents to happen to students.
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