A hunger strike led by three teenagers is in full effect in Hong Kong protesting against Chinese patriotism classes, “national education courses” that the government is encouraging students to take. The teenagers became their three day hunger strike on Thursday afternoon sitting right outside of the government headquarters and they are camping out there until Saturday afternoon when many other people are expected to join and rally hoping to convince the government to cancel the course. Parents, students, and teachers are against this the government implementing this “national education course” because they feel as if it is brainwashing the kids the support to Chinese government in everything they do. “Critics say the lessons gloss over events like the bloody Tiananmen crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in 1989, and the mass starvation and extrajudicial killings of Mao's Cultural Revolution.” Although the course is only voluntary right now many teachers are not planning to teach it because they do not support these issues being discussed with young kids but by 2016 the course will become mandatory if the issue is not resolved now before the new school year begins Monday.
I think the government should not try to force this course into the school system. Although it is important for kids to know about the history of their country including the terrible things they went through they could find another way to educate the kids instead of forcing a class to be taken. If a student is not interested in a course they will not do well in it so if this course becomes mandatory instead of voluntary this could potentially have a terrible effect on their education system. Teachers and parents don’t even support it so they should really rethink this whole course and come up with a better solution.
Good work overall. You could strengthen the blog a little more by making your analysis a little longer, bringing in class material and vocabulary, but overall good job.
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