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The new national security educational curriculum will force teachers to warn primary students as young as six years old against “subversion” and to throw out books considered dangerous to the Chinese state. The bureau advised teachers and principals to closely inspect noticeboards in classrooms and to clear out library books that \u201cendanger national security\u201d. This came after pro-Beijing politicians and state media blamed teachers and their curriculum for the months-long anti-governmental protests in 2019 that stemmed from students. The educational bureau have been actively trying to force schools to stop students and teachers from participating in political activities because of the shame from pro-Beijing politicians. Teachers of subjects like geography and biology are being told to incorporate lessons about national security into topics taught in class. For example, the educational bureau suggested that in a biology class, students can study how the local and mainland Chinese government protected the country during the COVID-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the months-long protests where students from across Hong Kong came together to fight against the new national security educational curriculum and against mainland Chinese politicians in the city, textbooks that went against the ideals of mainland China were being thrown out and the providers would sometimes disappear. China is trying with all its might to push on Hong Kong even if it means changing policies earlier than allowed to. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Link: https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/7a8e473d-86c1-4875-811b-575df79a502a The new national security educational curriculum will force teachers to warn primary students as young as six years old against “subversion” and to throw out books considered dangerous to the Chinese state. The bureau advised teachers and principals to closely inspect noticeboards in classrooms and to clear out library books that \u201cendanger national security\u201d. This came after pro-Beijing… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4471"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4474,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions\/4474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}