here is my little complain about Hong Kong education:
In pre-1997 time, HK government geared up and tried so hard to cry out “patriotic education” for all of our schools, for example, mandatory hoisting of the Chinese national flag, required Putonghua lessons, courses on contemporary China which is, of course, unlikely revealing the ugly face of the motherland, and whatnot. Nevertheless, what really bother the students and their worrying parents are the clueless idea of adopting mother-tongue---Cantonese as the medium of instruction in most primary and secondary schools, making parents continue to searching for alternatives.
In pre-1997 time, HK government geared up and tried so hard to cry out “patriotic education” for all of our schools, for example, mandatory hoisting of the Chinese national flag, required Putonghua lessons, courses on contemporary China which is, of course, unlikely revealing the ugly face of the motherland, and whatnot. Nevertheless, what really bother the students and their worrying parents are the clueless idea of adopting mother-tongue---Cantonese as the medium of instruction in most primary and secondary schools, making parents continue to searching for alternatives.
In the eve of the Hong Kong handover to China in 1997, the Hong Kong government had been promoting mother-tongue teaching. Not surprisingly, in line with this logic, right after 1997, indigenous Cantonese has been adopted as the medium of instruction in the vast majority of primary and secondary schools even though, everyone especially our smart parents knows, Chinese has been reduced to a clearly subordinate status in Hong Kong....(continued)
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