Stepping into September, 100,000 Hong Kong students have invested in the study life of a new school year.No one would expect that many primary and secondary schools and kindergartens have announced their suspension in just one month.

First of all, the Rose Gang School located in Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island. The schooling group suddenly announced in mid -September that the middle school department will be suspended after the end of the 2025/26 school year, and students will be suspended next year.

Rose Gang School belongs to the "one dragon" private school, covering kindergarten, elementary to middle school, and has a history of 64 years.Since the school founded the school, celebrities have come out, such as Chen Zhisi, Liang Botao in the business community, and Zhang Guorong and Chen Huilin in the performing arts industry.After the news that Rose Gang Middle School was no longer existing after 2026, it immediately aroused heated discussions in Hong Kong's society.

The day after the announcement of Rose Gang Middle School, another 55 -year -old Huafu Village Baodi Elementary School, another school, also announced that it will stop the new life from the 2025/26 school year, and the end of the 2028/29 school year will end.Later, officially suspended.

Later, the 60 -year -old kindergarten "Gende Garden" also issued a notice to parents, stating that the next school year will no longer accept new students' admission applications, until the 2025/2026 school year officially closed.

The latest news is the two primary schools of the Salvation Army of Non -profit groups in the East District of Hong Kong Island: Mrs. Weili Memorial School and the Salvation Army Central Plains Charity Fund School, which recently announced the merger as soon as September next year.

One after another with primary and secondary schools and kindergartens announced the suspension, but recently, the tip of the iceberg of the "killing school" tide.According to the Hong Kong Education Bureau, 21 kindergartens have been suspended in the previous school year, and in the past three school years, there are one primary school and one middle school.With the spread of kindergarten suspension, the number of primary and secondary schools that announced or merged this this year has also increased significantly, and there have been three or four in August.

In the final analysis, the emergence of the suspension of Hong Kong schools has a lot to do with the decline in the decline in the school -age population in recent years.Data from the Hong Kong Government Statistics Office show that at the end of 2015, there were 280,000 young children under 4 years old, and by the end of 2019, it would be reduced to 260,000; by the end of June this year, only 200,000 were left.

The number of young children has fallen sharply. Obviously, Hong Kong's fertility rate lasted for many years at a low level. Other reasons include crown disease epidemic and a large number of young families immigrants.The number of students is constantly declining, and some unsatisfactory schools will not be optimistic about the total number of students will rebound in the future, so they have to suspend.

Looking around all over the world, in recent years, many places have also faced the problem of "declining childization". Some government announced the end of some schools, and some decided to merge schools with a small number of students.The Hong Kong Education Bureau requires the number of students to adjust the number of schools with a decrease in the number of students, and encourage schools and school groups to integrate resources.

But the school's graduation continues to be insufficient, and naturally it will reduce hiring teachers. The last step is to stop.Faced with this murderous and upcoming crisis of killing schools, in recent years, Hong Kong primary and secondary schools have been suffering, and they have made their best to recruit students.

I have a friend who is a badminton coach who usually teaches children to play a living.A few days ago, I asked him if he would lack the students to enter the badminton class after the school started.Friends replied that reality is just the opposite. This year, his students have a lot more than last year.

It turned out that in recent years, the "killing school" crisis in Hong Kong has become very sought after.In the middle and lower reaches of the school ranking in Hong Kong, they know that they cannot make the students' grades in a short time in a short period of time. Therefore, they put on resources to open various interest classes in the school, hoping to retain or attract students to read.Although my friend has less private professor class in the new semester, the training class from the school has increased a lot.

But the number of local students in Hong Kong is limited after all.As the Hong Kong education system has been highly recognized internationally, in the face of the continued decline in local students, many schools with difficulty in raising students have turned their attention to mainland China, and their children's children who have collected Hong Kong people on the mainland came to Hong Kong to go to school to escape the "killing school".doom.

Hong Kong's policies are not completely prohibited from recruiting non -local students, but there are many restrictions on the proportion of regions, nationality and enrollment. For example, non -public primary and secondary schools and kindergartens are not allowed to recruit non -local students.In view of this, some educational groups have called on the Hong Kong Government to explore the possibility of open overseas students, especially mainland students to study in elementary and middle schools in Hong Kong, so that mainland students can enter Hong Kong schools at their own expense.

Hong Kong people's mainland children are almost forgotten in the Hong Kong education industry; after they move to Hong Kong, many schools often refuse to accept because their English performance is not good.Time has changed, and students with mainland backgrounds are now welcomed by Hong Kong schools. It is really ironic to become the "care schools" of many schools.

Speaking, it is not easy for Hong Kong primary and secondary schools to open a "green light" to relax the recruitment of mainland students.Although the education community emphasizes that only a small amount of non -local students will be recruited in the early stage, they are all at their own expense and will not use the government's education allowance.However, many Hong Kong parents are still worried that resources will be thinned, especially affecting their children's opportunities to enter a famous school.If this policy is launched, it will definitely cause a strong rebound in society.So the official has not dared to act lightly so far.

From the perspective of the mainland government, many mainlanders have always liked Hong Kong's education environment and system.Once Hong Kong revokes the restrictions of non -local students, there may be a large number of mainland parents arranged for children to go to Hong Kong to enroll in disguise.Hong Kong primary and secondary schools recruit mainland students. I believe I have to wait.