Teachers must not hurt students’ future

There is rarely a convenient time for a strike, but the timing of the latest strike by secondary school teachers comes across as particularly surprising.

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As the annual school examination season begins ~ a period of high anxiety for students and parents alike ~ a set of educators have abandoned their duty in an attempt to force the government to meet their demands. We find this move totally irresponsible.

The timing could not be worse. According to the government's schedule, annual exams were set to run from November to December, followed swiftly by selection tests and junior scholarship exams wrapping up on New Year's Eve.

This is the crunch time of the academic calendar. Yet, instead of quiet concentration in exam halls, students are having to face administrative anarchy.