Sec 5 class advised: Go to ITE instead

Principal tells students that they are unlikely to do well at O levels

By Sandra Davie, Education Correspondent

Jan 12, 2008

CALL it a disheartening start to the new school year.

A group of 27 girls in a Secondary 5 class in a mission school – which shall remain unnamed – were advised by their principal on the first day of school last week to seek transfers to the Institute of Technical Education (ITE), since they were unlikely to do well in the O levels this year.

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