‘National Education’ Raises Furor in Hong Kong

Plans to adopt Chinese civic education into the Hong Kong public school curriculum have sparked protests among residents, who claim it amounts to “brainwashing” impressionable young minds with pro-mainland propaganda . More than 90,000 people took to the streets on Sunday against introducing a “Moral and National Education” subject, according to protest organizers, while police estimated the turnout at 32,000. While the actual content of the curriculum has yet to be determined, guidelines in a booklet distributed by the government’s National Education Services Centre to schools have inflamed the controversy . (source CNN)

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