{"id":54947,"date":"2023-05-09T08:03:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T23:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/09\/hong-kong-schools-in-crisis-as-teachers-and-students-flee-toxic-political-climate"},"modified":"2023-05-09T08:03:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T23:03:04","slug":"hong-kong-schools-in-crisis-as-teachers-and-students-flee-toxic-political-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54947","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong schools in crisis as teachers and students flee \u2018toxic\u2019 political climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parents and teachers say the national security law, including the intensification of \u2018patriotic education\u2019, have prompted them to leave the city they love<\/p>\n<p>In a few weeks\u2019 time, eight-year-old Peter* will say goodbye to his school friends as he moves to Britain with his parents. In the past few years, Hong Kong children have got used to seeing more and more of their friends leaving the city.<\/p>\n<p>A decade-long decline in the birthrate, exacerbated by a recent exodus of residents from the city, has led to an alarming plunge in student as well as teacher numbers, leaving Hong Kong\u2019s education system facing a serious crisis.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/09\/hong-kong-schools-in-crisis-as-teachers-and-students-flee-toxic-political-climate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents and teachers say the national security law, including the intensification of \u2018patriotic education\u2019, have prompted them to leave the city they loveIn a few weeks\u2019 time, eight-year-old Peter* will say goodbye to his school friends as he moves to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,615,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-education","category-hong-kong","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54948,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54947\/revisions\/54948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}