A teacher conducts a senior secondary school class in Hong Kong. Frequent school closures during the coronavirus pandemic, and the way they were announced, severely harmed teachers’ mental health, a study found. Photo: Dickson Lee
How Hong Kong teachers’ mental health suffered from Covid-19 school closures, which caused 70pc to consider leaving teaching, new study finds
- Teachers talk about how their passion was crushed by Hong Kong’s repeated and prolonged school closures during the pandemic
- A study also finds less than a quarter of teachers felt a strong connection to their school, and only 20 per cent said they mattered ‘a great deal’ or ‘a lot’
A teacher conducts a senior secondary school class in Hong Kong. Frequent school closures during the coronavirus pandemic, and the way they were announced, severely harmed teachers’ mental health, a study found. Photo: Dickson Lee
