Xinhua News Agency, Hong Kong, July 31st (Reporter Wei Hua) The Education Bureau of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government announced on the 31st that it will completely terminate the working relationship with the "Hong Kong Education Professionals Association" ("Education Association"), which has been engaged in anti-China activities against Hong Kong for a long time. .
A spokesperson for the Education Bureau pointed out that the "Education Association" claims to be an education professional organization. However, the association's remarks and actions in recent years are often inconsistent with the education profession and are essentially no different from political organizations.
In the past, the association not only actively participated in the anti-China and Hong Kong forces, the "Florent Front" and the "Stake Association", but also promoted teacher strikes and infiltrated politics into the campus. In the social unrest, some students and even teachers were affected by violence and participation. For illegal activities, the "Educational Association" did not play the role of the education profession, teaching and persuading them, but instead fueling the flames, it violates the purpose of education and sacrifices the well-being of students.
The spokesperson announced that the Education Bureau can no longer regard the association as a professional education organization, and decided: 1. It will not hold any formal or informal meetings with the Education Association or its representatives, and will not consult its opinions on education issues; 2. For the time being, the association will not handle the cases or concerns raised by the association. The relevant persons can directly contact the Education Bureau, relevant schools or organizations, etc.; 3. The Education Bureau will conduct a comprehensive review of its consulting organizations and related education organizations, such as If a member of the "Education Association" serves as a member or other position as a representative of the association, the bureau will consider terminating its term of office, denying its membership or membership, refusing to participate in relevant meetings or entering the office building of the Education Bureau for this reason; In principle, the Education Bureau no longer recognizes the training courses organized by the Education Association for teachers. Therefore, schools should not count teachers' participation in the courses of the association after today as part of the 150 hours of professional development activities every three years; if any In special circumstances, the school considers that it can be recognized and can discuss with the Senior School Development Director of the Education Bureau.
The spokesman pointed out that Hong Kong education has been hit hard by political and social unrest in recent years. Many teachers and students have gone astray and even been arrested illegally.
Educational professional organizations should uphold their profession, help teachers develop their professional spirit, assist students in distinguishing right from wrong, abiding by laws and regulations, and helping them to follow the right path.
However, the "Education Association" not only failed to fulfill such a mission, but instead used educational professional groups as a package to actually promote political initiatives, such as the production of teaching materials during the illegal "Occupy Central" incident, including "civil disobedience" for all teachers in Hong Kong It is used to teach students; it has initiated all teachers' strikes in Hong Kong to bring political actions into the campus; recently, books that beautify the "dark violence" have been spread openly.
There are too many to mention.
The "Education Association" claims to be a teachers' union, and its members should observe its remarks and actions, and think deeply about whether the association can truly represent themselves.
The spokesperson emphasized that the Education Bureau expects all professional education organizations to properly fulfill their educational mission. The Bureau will continue to work with veritable professional education organizations to clean up the roots of Hong Kong education and do a good job in nurturing the younger generation.
Regarding the "Education Association" activities against China and disrupting Hong Kong, various circles in Hong Kong have repeatedly criticized it. They pointed out that the "Education Association" must eradicate the tumor of the "Education Association" in order to clean up the roots of Hong Kong education.