Tuen Mun principal hits out at plan to build special needs school nearby
Choi Kwok-kwong, principal of Yan Oi Tong Chan Wong Suk Fong Memorial Secondary School, said these types of school ‘include those who are subjected to triad control, commit violence or assaults, participate in antisocial actions’
A secondary school in Tuen Mun has opposed a government plan to relocate a primary school for students with emotional or behavioural problems nearby.
Choi Kwok-kwong, principal of Yan Oi Tong Chan Wong Suk Fong Memorial Secondary School on Wong Yin Street close to downtown Tuen Mun, submitted his opposition to the Education Bureau late last month, saying the bureau should “seriously and justly evaluate this type of special schools’ impact” on students and residents.
He urged the bureau to halt the plan and pick another site in the district for the school.
“[These schools] only admit students with moderate to severe levels of emotional and behavioural problems, including those who ... are subjected to triad control, commit violence or assaults, participate in antisocial actions, and undesirable elements’ activities, rely on or often take drugs, conduct cult activities, practise sexual promiscuity or have physical or mental disorders,” Choi wrote in the letter, citing the bureau’s identification guidelines on these students.
“Students in [these schools] need an environment that is relatively far away from areas with high population density and relatively more temptations,” he said.