Officials advise teachers to help students "cultivate habit and confidence" while singing anthem.

Hong Kong officials have singled out at least two schools for singing the Chinese national anthem “too softly”.

Teachers at a third school have been asked to help students “cultivate habit and confidence” in singing it.

Hong Kong has redoubled the emphasis on “patriotic” education since 2020 when China cracked down on the city’s pro-democracy movement.

Officials said students’ voices at the Hong Kong and Macau Lutheran Church Primary School were “soft and weak” and “should be strengthened”. At Yan Chai Hospital Lim Por Yen Secondary School, teachers were told to “help students develop the habit of singing the national anthem loudly in unison”.

  • SOMETHINGSWRONG@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    149·
    3 days ago

    Lmao @ the Americans getting all uncomfortable trying to weasel out of this

    Yeah bullshit it’s “not mandatory,” how can you have such a basic denial of reality?

    Totally optional, that’s why every time some kid understands and abstains, the teachers and other students bully them mercilessly, give them detention, suspension, expulsion, and it makes national news whenever someone actually tries.

    I bet joining the NSDAP was fucking optional too, don’t try to deny your christofascism that everyone just accepts because somehow it’s better when America does it

    • YeetPics@mander.xyzEnglish
      91·
      3 days ago

      Idk, I didn’t stand for the pledge and they didn’t disappear me into a white van or exile me to Cuba 🤷

      Maybe, and stop me if I’m going too far here, maybe you weren’t aware it isn’t forced. That’s fine because now you’ve been handed a personal account of the opposite to be true, I’m sure you will reassess you stance 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      7·
      3 days ago

      Not all states or schools. At least my siblings and I never had to. We lived in 3 states and went do dozens of schools between the 4 of us.

    • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      My kids don’t say the pledge, they just stand there silently. I will Karen so fucking hard if they try to pull that shit.