Workers' Children Secondary School
| Workers' Children Secondary School 勞工子弟中學 |
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School exterior
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 Workers' Children Secondary School
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| 14 Princess Margaret Road Ho Man Tin, Kowloon Hong Kong |
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| Coordinates | 22°19′12″N 114°10′44″E / 22.3199°N 114.1788°ECoordinates: 22°19′12″N 114°10′44″E / 22.3199°N 114.1788°E |
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| Type | Direct Subsidy Scheme |
| Motto | Proactive, Sincere, Inquisitive, Creative |
| Established | 1946 |
| Principal | Wong Ching Yung |
| Faculty | 48 teachers |
| Enrolment | 700 (approx.) |
| Website | wss |
Workers' Children Secondary School (Chinese: 勞工子弟中學) is a secondary school in Ho Man Tin, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It was formerly called Mongkok Workers' Children School (Chinese: 旺角勞工子弟學校).
In 1946 the missionary bishop Ronald Hall proposed to various trade unions that they should band together to form a society for the education of workers' children. The "Education Advancement Society for the Children of Workers in Hongkong and Kowloon" was thus formed. The society opened seven schools in 1947, at Mong Kok, Wan Chai, Apliu Street (Sham Shui Po), Hing Man Street (Shau Kei Wan), Sai Wan Ho, Jaffe Road, and Portland Street. The Mongkok school was housed in government premises and had 556 students in April 1947. More schools opened in 1948. These schools were often not in permanent premises but in rented flats. The government was still working to rehabilitate schools ruined during the Japanese occupation of World War II.
A few years after opening, the original Mongkok school was closed by the government, which felt that the workers' children schools were operating in unsuitable premises. The government planned to build new government schools in both Hong Kong Island and Kowloon and withdraw the subsidy given to the education advancement society. However, the Mong Kok school continued operating. A new school campus was built at Nairn Road (now called Princess Margaret Road) in Ho Man Tin. It was formally opened with a commemorative ceremony on 29 April 1951. The school was founded as a kindergarten, and the primary section was added soon after. The lower secondary section was founded in 1961.
Mongkok Workers' Children School was regarded as a leftist institution. It was the site of discord during the 1967 riots, inspired by the contemporaneous fervour of the Cultural Revolution in China. In May 1967, at the outset of the disturbances, it was reported in the South China Morning Post that men dressed as Red Guards, claiming to have come from Canton, were seen shouting communist slogans outside the school. In October 1967 one of the teachers, Li Mou-lan, was tried and subsequently convicted of possessing inflammatory posters and recommended for deportation back to China, his birthplace. The same month a student of the school was accused of possessing a bomb.
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