In addition to the suspected child abuse incidents in recent months, the school for severely mentally handicapped children at Hong Chi Pine Hill No. 2 in Tai Po has also been understaffed. There are no teachers in many classrooms.
Some teachers who have left the school have accused that the loss of staff was caused by the chaos of personnel in the school, and some people targeted the teachers.
Some people even accuse teachers of tricking teachers and deliberately angering students in the school, pointing out that the behavior has the opportunity to affect the health of students.
The Hong Chi Association responded that the Incorporated Management Committee had set up an "investigation team" to investigate the incident, but had not responded to the allegations of personnel management.
Reporter: Li Yinglin
Photography: Ma Chufeng, Wang Haitu, Zhou Zhijian, Yu Junliang, Ou Jiale
Editing: Xiao Kunxiang
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The timetable reveals that 20 lessons are not taught every day
The establishment of Hong Chi Association Pine Hill No. 2 School has about 20 teachers. After the end of the last school year, seven teachers resigned. At present, there are at least eight vacancies in the school.
"It's just a vacuum. Half of the timetable has no teachers." A (pseudonym), who worked at Songling No. 2 School, pointed out that the school asked other teachers to take the place of teachers, but because many teacher vacancies were not filled, the manpower was not enough to cope with the original classroom. , the school adopts combined classes, that is, two classes of different grades are combined and taught by the same teacher.
"Hong Kong 01" received a class schedule for the beginning of this semester at Pine Ridge No. 2 School. There are nearly 20 classes every day that are not taught, so they need to share classes or be substituted by teachers who are available.
A (pseudonym), who has worked in Songling No. 2 School, pointed out that the school's teachers were understaffed, and believed that the loss of manpower was related to the management of the school's top management and the disorderly grading of class observation.
(Photo by O Jiale)
Sharing classes or violating the number of people required by the Education Bureau
A said that co-class classes or substitute classes are "not just going to teach", they need to write lesson plans and prepare teaching aids. In addition to the increase in workload, the number of students increases, and the behavior problems in the class also increase, which puts pressure on teachers. soared.
The Education Bureau regulates the number of students per class in special schools, ranging from 8 to 15 students, depending on the type of school. Therefore, there is a chance that a combined class may exceed the upper limit set by the Bureau.
It is known that someone complained to the Education Bureau that after the incident, the school's top management canceled the arrangement of shared classes, but the classrooms vacated due to the shortage of teachers still need to be replaced by current teachers.
Hong Chi Association Pine Ridge No. 2 is located in Tai Po. It is a school for severely mentally handicapped children with dormitories.
(Photo by Zhou Zhijian)
Confusion in assessment leads to serious loss of teachers
Some staff believe that the management and evaluation methods of the school's top management have led to more and more serious loss.
A said that the school will arrange high-level class observation and grade the teacher's performance in class, but there has been a case of "disorderly evaluation": "Some teachers clearly carried out activities and maintained classroom order, but the class evaluation teacher was brave enough to say no."
A said that someone had complained to the principal about this, and the principal promised to follow up, but in the end it was over.
Hong Chi Association Pine Ridge No. 2 is located in Tai Po. It is a school for severely mentally handicapped children with dormitories.
(Photo by Zhou Zhijian)
Rating changed from satisfied to very dissatisfied
The reporter came into contact with one of the resigned teachers, C (pseudonym), who said that he had been "indiscriminately criticized".
C's grades for being observed last semester were not too bad, and a grade sheet he provided showed that all items were rated as "satisfactory" or "average."
Although the observation teacher listed the areas for improvement, he also pointed out the advantages of his teaching.
However, in the next semester, after C was observed twice, most of the evaluation items only received "strongly disagree" and "disagree", and the comments only had a lot of areas for improvement, and there was not a single advantage, which made him feel targeted.
C said that he once asked the senior management responsible for the observation of the class what the grading standard between "strongly disagree" and "disagree" was and how to make progress, but he pointed out that the other party couldn't explain it.
C even asked the principal about the grading question: "I asked three times, but the principal said each time that he was not available and would not answer these questions. I will talk about it when I am free."
C believes that the grading of class observation is very important for teachers, and he hopes to improve the quality of teaching, but he has been unable to get an answer after many inquiries, which makes him question whether the school is "causing trouble".
He also emphasized that other teachers also experienced similar experiences, and some of them resigned.
B (pseudonym), who has resigned, accused Hong Chi Songling No. 2 School of teasing colleagues.
(Photo by Yu Junliang)
Former employee claims to have been tricked
Another resigned B (pseudonym) accused the school of teasing colleagues.
For example, he pointed out that the student's wheelchair needs to be locked after putting it on the bus, but he has seen someone deliberately unlock the locked wheelchair. ”
"Hong Kong 01" had an exclusive report that in 2017, an 8-year-old student in the dormitory of Songling No. 2 School died of a brainstem while being fed.
(Hong Kong 01 cartography)
Feeding the wrong food can harm students
"Hong Kong 01" had an exclusive report that in 2017, an 8-year-old student in the dormitory of Songling No. 2 School died of a brainstem while being fed.
However, B said that tricking and targeting behaviors also occur when feeding school children: "Some bad teaching assistants will not remind them, watching others divide the wrong meal and feed the wrong food to the students, which is very dangerous."
The Hong Chi Association issued a statement in October, stating that in addition to suspected child abuse incidents, the anonymous complaints mentioned in the school's administrative management, teaching allegations and other issues will be investigated by the "investigation team" established by the incorporated school management committee.
The Hong Chi Association issued a statement in October saying that an "investigation team" set up by the incorporated management committee would investigate the allegations made in the anonymous complaint.
(Hong Chi Association Facebook)
"Hong Kong 01" once inquired about the allegations of school personnel issues with the Hong Chi Association, but the association said it would not comment at this stage.
The reporter also made inquiries to the Education Bureau regarding the allegations. The bureau expressed great concern about the school’s complaints concerning personnel management, epidemic prevention and anti-epidemic arrangements, and suspected child abuse. It is now following up with the school sponsoring body and the school corporation. Representatives of the school management committee met and instructed the school sponsoring body and the incorporated school management committee to follow up seriously and submit an investigation report to the Education Bureau as soon as possible.
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