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Once again, I break my silence on topic like this. In particular as some of you may aware, I am particularly in disagreement of Catholic schools participating in the Direct Subsidized scheme.
I don't blame any parents who don't find it an issue, since not many parents would really study in such detail to find the issues behind.
I would try to put it as simple as I could, so I would have to omit some details (both intentionally and unintentionally).
First, I just wanna say, education is not a business, so an education institution should have a higher standard compare to the regulations needing to be comply for an commercial organization.
Second, in the long history of Catholic schools in Hong Kong, actually a lot of resources in these schools are funded (subsidized) by the Catholic Organization who managed these schools (originally subsidized), NOT BY ADDITIONAL FEES from parents. So, with the assumptions that the EDB has sufficiently funded each of these DSS with a per head fund, than in simple term, these schools should have no need to ask the parents to pay more. So, the fundamental is in the past, these Catholic organizations who run a DSS, are moving from paying for these schools, to getting extra money from parents (can notice the two side wing here now?)
Please don't pull private schools in the picture since private schools and DSS are very much different in nature. However, for a normal parent, they may just think they are similar in a sense that they have to pay school fees (please note private schools are not receiving funds from the gov't like the DSS). It would be a long discussion to go through the history.
I am in no position to judge these schools. But honestly with my involvement in Catholic schools and the EDB, I would only say it is inappropriate for a Catholic schools to turn to DSS, as it doesn't comply with the MISSIONS of running a Catholic school! Of course, as I am not a Catholic Father, so my interpretation may simply be incorrect. If so, then I would like to apologize but I do wanna express once again my subjective opinion.
Try to search in the DB database, you will notice very few Catholic schools are DSS. Just wanna give all parents another angle to look at things. I didn't say GH is wrong to be DSS as I understand why they have to do it back then.
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