“This class violates the spirit of teaching students to think critically and to identify right from wrong. By pushing this brainwashing education, the Hong Kong government will make the next generation unable to stand up against the government, and Hong Kong citizens will have to pay the consequences.”
Six large education-sponsoring bodies, including the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese, Anglican Church, Evangelical Lutheran Church, and Hong Kong Buddhist Association, all announced that they would not support the curriculum, according to a Radio Free Asia report on July 19. These account for a total of 150 schools; 30 percent of all elementary schools in Hong Kong.
Last August the chairman of the Hong Kong Democratic Party Albert Ho said that national education is an ideological weapon of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). As the CCP is losing its authority to rule, he said, so it must create a new ideological system—patriotism and nationalism—to instill patriotic doctrine in free Hong Kong citizens.
The teachers union continues to call on the Education Minister Eddie Ng for serious dialogue with teachers and parents on the topic. They said they would consider all options, including a strike, to have the curriculum withdrawn.
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