Body-bags

27 June 2010 - I missed this story, but luckily HK Magazine picked it up. Sadly, there is an increase of suicides among youngsters in Hong Kong. Students have repeatedly jumped off the roofs in schools and apartment blocks, and one would think the Government is concerned about the cause for such desperate behavior. Not the Hong Kong Government. The Education Bureau decided to take action in a different way. Not by offering support or by reducing academic pressure on the students, but by distributing body-bags to every Government school in the city. The argument goes that children will be traumatized by the scene, and that it is better to immediately cover the body up. No further talk about emotional support or counselling, but a quick and very dirty solution. Parents better think twice before sending their children to these schools.