Parents at St Paul’s Secondary School in Hong Kong complain after teachers call police on schoolgirls taking last-day photos
- Pupils at elite Happy Valley school were taking photos on their last day before a public exam
Angry parents of girls at an elite Hong Kong school have urged the education chief to intervene after teachers called the police to stop pupils taking photos at the campus gate on their last day.
Photos and videos of students from St Paul’s Secondary School in Happy Valley stuck at the school gate with two police officers have gone viral on social media since Thursday, Form Six girls’ last day before a public exam in a month’s time.
In a letter drafted to Secretary for Education Kevin Yeung Yun-hung seen by the Post, parents demanded he punish the teachers involved.
“I feel very shocked and angry about the incident,” the letter template for the parents read. “Teachers are supposed to nurture talents ... But now they are repressing students with their authority.”
They told Yeung that several teachers at the school were said to have dispersed a group of Form Six students who were going to take photos on campus after class. When the girls tried to take pictures at the school gate outside the campus, the teachers called police to stop them, saying they would “block the street”.
The parents also asked Yeung to make the teachers apologise to the students and get the school to arrange for the graduating students to go back for photos.