Hong Kong's secondary schools have become the latest ideological battleground for pro-democracy protesters with thousands of students taking part in human chain rallies since the new academic year kicked off.
"Hong Kong students are known for being hardworking and having lots of homework, but we still choose to stand out today," he told AFP, asking not to use his full name. What started as a pushback against a bill allowing extraditions to mainland China snowballed into wider calls for democracy and police accountability after the city's leaders and Beijing refused concessions.
Each morning it is not uncommon to see rows of youngsters in uniforms standing outside their schools, shouting slogans like"Reclaim Hong Kong, revolution of our times" and"Free Hong Kong".In a video that went viral last week, students at one school were filmed singing"Do you hear the people sing?" -- a protest anthem from the musical"Les Miserables" -- over the Chinese national anthem, as teachers looked on unsure what to do.
"No one should use schools as a platform to express their political views," education minister Kevin Yeung Yun-hung said in an open letter to parents before the term started.
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