Two more Hong Kong teachers deregistered for life, one for ‘defaming the nation’ and the other for a protest-related crime
- Education Bureau takes issue with what it characterises as one teacher touching on political issues in class ‘without support by evidence’, while the other was found guilty of a crime stemming from 2019’s social unrest
- The latest disciplinary actions bring the total number of teachers deregistered since the outbreak of the protests to four
The latest disciplinary actions bring the total number of teachers deregistered since the outbreak of the protests to four.
In one of the new cases, the Education Bureau took issue with what it characterised as the teacher’s discussion of matters in class “without support by evidence or even [using] distorted facts”, while other “one-sided content” amounted to “defaming the nation and undermining students’ sense of national identity”.
Two sources told the Post the case involved a liberal studies teacher at the Lung Cheung Government Secondary School in Wong Tai Sin – the first government school teacher to be disqualified over protest-related complaints.
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The bureau said on Friday that the teacher had “fallen short of the society’s expectations and brought negative impacts to students’ learning”, and that it was therefore cancelling the educator’s registration.
The other teacher, meanwhile, was deregistered this month after being convicted of a crime relating to 2019’s social unrest, the bureau said.