It is good news indeed that Secretary for Education and Manpower Arthur Li Kwok-cheung has consulted with the chief executive and declared a zero-tolerance policy regarding bullying in Hong Kong's schools. If only he realised the scale of the problem and the impenetrable walls of silence that surround it.
Bullying, in one form or another, is a daily event in far too many Hong Kong schools. It is saddening to think that it is only when tapes of incidents appear on the internet that schools might be under some obligation to acknowledge that the problem exists.