{"id":27855,"date":"2019-12-23T01:58:35","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T01:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=27855"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:58:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T01:58:35","slug":"hong-kong-teachers-to-be-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/hong-kong-teachers-to-be-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong teachers: 80 arrested to be suspended\u00a0\u2015Education\u00a0Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"

Secretary for Education Kevin Yeung Yun-hung has tasked schools to suspend Hong Kong teachers arrested for serious offenses, in accordance with the employment ordinance. \u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad<\/strong>
\nYeung said the bureau had taken more rigorous action against this minor group of educators out of concern for students\u2019 safety.
\nAccording to Yeung, the recent civil unrest was made up of over 40 percent of students out of the 6,000 people arrested.
\nThe Secretary for education stated that the Education Bureau had received over 123 complaints of protest-related<\/a> misconduct against teachers from mid-June till late November.
\nHe added that the bureau also affirms that it will follow up on each case where a teacher\u2019s professional ethics are in question and will consider revoking the teacher\u2019s certification on conviction of serious offenses.
\nYeung said most of the complaints received were related to hate speech or provocative acts, while others involved inappropriate teaching materials or violation of the law.<\/p>\n

Out of 123 complaints, 74 cases completed<\/h2>\n

Yeung said 80 Hong Kong teachers and teaching assistants had been arrested so far. The bureau did not mention how many of those detained had been subject of a complaint.<\/strong>
\nAlthough, he revealed that four teachers had been suspended by their schools, including a teacher charged with possession of a weapon, and a government-school teacher accused of using bias teaching materials.
\nAmong the 123 complaints, investigations had been completed in 74 cases, with wrongdoing confirmed in 13 of those. They dismissed in another 30, and six teachers were given a warning, while seven others were issued with advisory letters. The remaining cases were initially substantiated, but some are still being reviewed.
\nApart from the disciplinary action, Yeung said some schools had also taken other action against the accused Hong Kong teachers like a demotion, postponement of salary increase, or transferring the teachers to another post.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hong Kong teachers Union reaction<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Ip Kin-yuen, an education sector lawmaker and vice-president of the pro-democracy Professional Teachers\u2019 Union, accused the bureau of not providing clear guidelines on what constitutes hate speech, or provocative<\/a> acts. Noting that many of the current cases involved comments teachers had shared privately with friends on social media platforms.
\nThe pro-establishment Hong Kong Federation of Education Workers has also released a statement in agreement with the fact that the bureau should make public the reasons for punishing a teacher in each cas<\/strong>e.
\nIp Kin-yuen, further noted that the union would provide help to teachers who were suspended, or had resigned.<\/p>\n

Former H\u2019Kong leader slams education chief<\/h2>\n

Former Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-Ying has released a statement accusing the city\u2019s education chief of mishandling the sector concerning the anti-government movement.
\nLeung lashed out at the Education Minister on Facebook demanding a more genuine meaning of performance from his sector regarding the Hong Kong teachers under review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Secretary for Education Kevin Yeung Yun-hung has tasked schools to suspend Hong Kong teachers arrested for serious offenses, in accordance with the employment ordinance. \u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad Yeung said the bureau had taken more rigorous action against this minor group of educators out of concern for students\u2019 safety. According to Yeung, the recent civil unrest was made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":27856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}