MCLC: patriotic education protest in HK

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: kirk (denton.2 at osu.edu)
Subject: patriotic education protest in HK
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Source: NYT (9/3/12):
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/04/world/asia/04iht-educbriefweb.html?ref=as
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Briefly: Education
Thousands in Hong Kong rally against curriculum
By Joyce Lau 

Thousands of teachers, parents, students and activists demonstrated over
the weekend against proposed Chinese national education in Hong Kong
schools, just before the academic year was set to begin Monday.
According to The South China Morning Post <http://www.scmp.com/>, three
teenagers were told to end a hunger strike for health reasons, though they
were replaced by 10 other protesters. Critics of the curriculum have
likened it to brainwashing.

Organizers, including Scholarism <http://www.facebook.com/Scholarism>, a
student advocacy group, said that there were 40,000 protesters. The police
in the semiautonomous Chinese city reported a vastly different number of
more than 8,000 protesters.

The protest against what is being called “patriotic education” followed a
larger rally in late July.