Officials advise teachers to help students "cultivate habit and confidence" while singing anthem.

Hong Kong officials have singled out at least two schools for singing the Chinese national anthem “too softly”.

Teachers at a third school have been asked to help students “cultivate habit and confidence” in singing it.

Hong Kong has redoubled the emphasis on “patriotic” education since 2020 when China cracked down on the city’s pro-democracy movement.

Officials said students’ voices at the Hong Kong and Macau Lutheran Church Primary School were “soft and weak” and “should be strengthened”. At Yan Chai Hospital Lim Por Yen Secondary School, teachers were told to “help students develop the habit of singing the national anthem loudly in unison”.

  • TheGalacticVoid@lemm.eeEnglish
    112·
    5 months ago

    To add onto what other commenters said:

    1. It isn’t legally mandated, only customary
    2. If it was mandatory, such a mandate would probably be illegal
    3. Plenty of teachers and school officials (but not most) will be pissed/will punish you if you don’t do the pledge.