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Hong Kong education authorities investigating administrators of school where teacher was stripped of registration for ‘bias’
- Education secretary Kevin Yeung tells Legislative Council session that administrators must be held accountable for teachers’ actions
- The Education Bureau is also considering implementing temporary deregistrations for teachers accused of less serious infractions
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Hong Kong education authorities are investigating the administrators of a government-run secondary school after one of its teachers was disqualified for life over accusations of using “biased” materials and “defaming the nation” in class.
Education minister Kevin Yeung Yun-hung revealed the investigation during a Legislative Council meeting on Friday, where he also went over the details of a new plan to allow some deregistered teachers apply to be reinstated after a fixed period in disciplinary cases deemed unworthy of a lifetime ban.
“School management, in general, has to be held accountable for school-based teaching materials by [teachers],” Yeung said of the inquiry at Lung Cheung Government Secondary School, where the recently disqualified teacher taught. “We are currently reviewing the responsibility of management of the school, but the investigation has not been completed yet.”
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Yeung did not specify who the bureau was focusing on, but in addition to its principal, who is a civil servant, the school is also overseen by a principal education officer from the government, who heads its management committee.
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The teacher in question was stripped of her registration last month, becoming the first educator at a public school to be disqualified over a politically tinged complaint since the city’s months-long anti-government protest movement erupted in June of 2019.
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