Pupils and parents to protest against national education

Pupils and parents will surround the government's headquarters on Saturday in their latest move against the introduction of the national and moral education curriculum ahead of the start of the new school term next week.

The National Education Parents' Concern Group said it expected tens of thousands of participants to demonstrate at the government's headquarters in Admiralty. The protesters' plan of attack against the subject in the new school term would also be announced on that day.

Group spokeswoman Linda Wong Shui-hung said the government had been deaf to their demands, even though scores of protesters took to the street in an anti-national education march last month.

"So we hope to go to their working place and tell them what we want," she said.

The gathering would start at 2pm with a carnival, followed by a band performance at 4.30pm. The group would then surround the headquarters until 8.30pm.

The group said the start of the school term would not mark an end to their campaign but a beginning of their action. Wong called the gathering a "commencement ceremony of civic education".

Meanwhile, about 50 secondary school pupils marched from a public school in Shau Kei Wan to the government headquarters yesterday.