Tung Chung head cries foul as officials warn off parents
The only village school in Tung Chung is fighting for survival amid a series of attempts by the Education Department to close village schools in the district.
The school head and management of Tung Chung Public School, which has been ordered by the Government to close in 2003, have accused the department of turning away their prospective students. They say it called up parents who had asked for places at the school and told them to reconsider their choice.
'We will accept the decision to close our school if the students we receive are too few, but it is unfair for the Education Department to interfere with our discretionary places allocation by frightening people away from our school,' said Mak Wai-kuen, principal of the school.
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