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Written by: Hu Jiaxin
2021-03-24 13:29
Last update date: 2021-03-24 13:29
Since the anti-revision incident the year before, the professional ethics of teachers has attracted attention.
The Secretary for Education, Yang Runxiong, said in the Legislative Council questions this morning that from mid-June 2019 to the end of December 2020, a total of 269 complaints about teacher professional malpractice related to social unrest were received, and investigations into 244 cases were roughly completed. Among them, 95 cases were unsubstantiated.
In the established cases, the bureau cancelled the registration of 2 teachers, issued reprimand letters to 28 teachers, issued warning letters to 24 teachers, issued written exhortations to 27 teachers, and gave verbal reminders to 28 teachers.
Some of the remaining cases have been initially established and are being processed according to established procedures.
He also revealed that in the past five years, there have been nearly 20 cases in which teachers were arrested or prosecuted and suspended by the school. In the past year and a half, government schools accounted for 3 cases. One person was suspended and two were transferred from teaching posts. .
The Director of the Education Bureau Yang Runxiong pointed out that there are differences in the handling of arrested teachers between government schools and Tianjin schools.
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In response to the question by the DAB member Zhou Hao-ting, the Secretary for Education, Yeung Yun-hsiung, stated that according to the Code of Aid, if teachers have been or may be involved in criminal proceedings or are involved in serious misconduct, the school may suspend the teachers involved in accordance with the Employment Ordinance.
The Education Bureau has issued letters and guidelines to schools on many occasions, mentioning that the school’s basic principles for handling arrested staff should be based on the well-being of students, including the impact of life safety, moral development and quality of learning.
If a teacher commits a serious crime, even if the case is not closed, the school will also conduct a risk assessment for the teacher’s exposure to students, such as arson, riots, wounding, possession of drugs and prohibited weapons, sexual crimes, etc., the staff’s duties should be suspended; if there are staff After being arrested but not prosecuted, the school should carefully examine the nature and severity of the incident and consider whether to allow the teachers involved to teach in the school.
During the suspension of teachers, schools can use government resources to hire substitute teachers. Generally speaking, if teachers do not perform their teaching duties, they will not be paid.
Arrested teacher dealing with Yang Runxiong: government schools must be suspended immediately
Pakatan Harapan Member Leung Mei-fun is concerned about whether government schools need to immediately suspend civil servants arrested and investigated for participating in illegal public activities in accordance with the provisions of the Civil Service Bureau, and whether there is a corresponding and consistent arrangement in the subsidy school.
Yang Runxiong pointed out that government schools will deal with arrested teachers in accordance with the provisions of the Civil Service Bureau, but subsidized schools have different practices and will not have consistent handling criteria. Because of the employment conditions of Tianjin schools and government schools, and their employers No, but it is emphasized that the school must take the interests of the students as the main priority, and consider how the teachers involved will continue to teach and how they will affect the students. The authorities will also discuss the case with the school, and follow up depending on whether the two sides will have significant differences.
He also emphasized that regardless of whether the arrested teacher is convicted or not, the authorities will review the qualifications of the teacher registration after the completion of the legal process.
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