Hong Kong Secondary School Accused of Bullying After Student’s Death

In February this year, a 16-year-old middle-four boy fell to his death from a building in his apartment. More than two months later, the family believed that the cause of the boy’s death was related to school bullying, and accused the school of shirking responsibility. According to the family members, the school involved is the Hong Kong Chinese Women’s Club Fung Yiu King Memorial Secondary School in Ma On Shan.

Mr. Shi, the cousin of the deceased, said that the boy was the only child in the family. He was cheerful, lively and simple, had good grades and was willing to help others. However, the boy was receiving speech therapy before his death, which is believed to be one of the reasons why his cousin was bullied.

As early as the deceased was 10 years old, that is, when he was in primary four, he was bullied by his classmates. A dispute arose over borrowing a comic book. The bully extorted money from the victim and cut the victim’s school uniform. After the incident, the bully apologized to the victim, but the victim’s family decided not to report to the police, but it caused serious psychological trauma to the victim.

Afterwards, they were promoted to high school together and were assigned to the same school. Although the middle school seldom saw each other during the epidemic, and mainly took online classes; until the resumption of physical classes in the fourth year, bullying continued to occur, and classmates questioned that the cousin had autism. After being questioned by her mother, the victim revealed that she was being bullied by her classmates, and Shi Tai also questioned the school teachers.

A few hours before the night when the victim committed suicide, he talked to his mother in the afternoon. Mrs. Shi recalled that her son was fined and detained that day. After returning home, the victim told her that he would hold a “values ​​education class” after hearing the discussion between the classmates and the teacher. Some students complained that the victim had bullied others in elementary school; Autistic, the bully threatened that the school would expel the victim.

After listening to Mrs. Shi, she calmed her son’s emotions and told him not to be afraid, and immediately contacted the school on WeChat, but unfortunately failed to prevent the unfortunate incident from happening.

That is, Mrs. Shi had a WeChat conversation with a middle school teacher:

The school owes follow-up, and the Hong Kong government doesn’t know about it?

Mr. Shi questioned the school’s neglect and bullying incident, emphasizing that the school shirked its responsibility and ignored the bullying incident, and the school did not report the boy’s suicide incident to the Education Bureau. The family has called the police and the police are following up.

The cousin, Mr. Shi, said that he had inquired with the Director of Development and Education of Sha Tin District of the Education Bureau, but the bureau said he did not know about it. After the victim called the police for help, the police said that it would take 6 months to investigate, and the coroner has been handed over to the coroner for follow-up. Mrs. Shi also said that the school asked the Caritas social worker stationed in the school to follow up. After the social worker repeatedly shirked her responsibility, she told Mrs. Shi that she needed to submit proof of income and identity before processing, which might take several months. Mrs. Sze believed that her son had passed away and urgently needed help from the school, but the Caritas social workers still tried to evade, so they gave up asking them for help.

School statement: The student involved has never complained to the school about being bullied in school

The Hong Kong Chinese Women’s Association Feng Yaojing Memorial Secondary School issued a statement in the evening stating that before the incident, the students involved had never complained to the school about being bullied in the school. It was not until the night when the incident happened that the parent expressed to the school teacher for the first time through the communication software that the student involved had recently had concerns and mentioned that he had been bullied by elementary school classmates in elementary school. The teacher immediately promised to understand and provide counseling to the student involved the next day . The school also pointed out that since the incident that happened on the night of February 14, the teachers and students of the school are still sad and sad, and they can’t speak even if they understand the pain of their parents. The school has been keeping in touch with the families, and continues to provide appropriate support and assistance to the parents. At the same time, it is also actively cooperating with the Education Bureau, the police, social workers, educational psychologists, social welfare organizations, etc. Hurt, recover.[See the school’s response immediately]

The incident happened on February 14 this year. A 16-year-old boy lay down on the ground of Ming Yiu House, Yat Ming Estate, Sha Tin, and died on the spot. After preliminary investigation, the suspect jumped down from a high corridor.

TOPick is asking the Education Bureau about the incident and is waiting for a reply.

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Reporters: Wu Zhuofeng, Wu Yingyu