Since the new school year on the 1st of last month, five students have fallen off the building, resulting in four deaths and one death. The number is rare in recent years.
Professor Ye Zhaohui, director of the Hong Kong University's Suicide Prevention Research Center, said that the series of tragedies may be related to the problem of resuming class adaptation. Due to the impact of the epidemic, students have a long time to study at home. When they return to campus, they may have problems with adaptation and may not be able to catch up with their studies. Degree, the pressure doubles.
He suggested that schools should introduce measures to improve related problems, including opening up the campus to allow more students to stay in the school. When encountering problematic students, social workers or teachers immediately follow up to relieve students' negative emotions.
Ye believes that since Hong Kong has never encountered such a severe epidemic, classes have not been fully resumed for a long time. He understands that in order to allow students to regain their academic standards and increase their homework, I hope that the school can be sympathetic to the pressure that students can bear, especially low grades. For the students, slowly adjust the amount of students’ homework and let them gradually improve their learning level. Otherwise, forcing students to recover their level will only be self-defeating.
Parents and teachers can pay attention to whether students have revealed their unhappiness on social platforms or with classmates, and take the initiative to care about them.
Hong Kong students falling from buildings in recent months
25/10/2021
A 17-year-old student from Lu
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Middle School of the New Life Education Association fell from a height on the campus and was seriously injured and sent to hospital. The current situation is critical.
19/10/2021 A
12-year-old middle school boy fell from a height on a footbridge off Shun'an Village, Sau Mau Ping and was sent to hospital and died.
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07/10/2021
A 16-year-old female student in Form 5 of the Chinese Church of Christ's Elementary School, Fung Yau East Street, Yuen Long, fell off the building and died.
Rescuers arrived at the scene and rescued female students who fell from the building on the school platform.
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29/09/2021
Tin Shui Wai Missionary Alliance Yip Siu Yin Memorial Primary School, an 8-year-old boy in Primary Three fell off the building and died on campus.
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