Hong Kong is up in arms over plans to introduce compulsory “moral and national education” into its classrooms. As the school year starts, thousands of protesters have demonstrated outside government headquarters against what they see as an attempt to brainwash children with a pro-Beijing message. Primary schools have overwhelmingly rejected what is, until 2015, a voluntary scheme to merge “national education” into existing civic and moral education lessons. There have been sit-ins, marches and even hunger strikes. Such is the mood of hostility that Leung Chun-ying, Hong Kong’s newly appointed leader, has scrapped plans to attend this weekend’s Asia-Pacific Economic Conference forum in Vladivostok to deal with the crisis.
香港在本地中小学引入“德育及国民教育