Acting vice-principal at Hong Kong school suspended for sharing poem that wished death on police and their families
- Deputy head at Confucius Hall Secondary School in Causeway Bay put poem on Facebook
- But head says teacher did not know it was an acrostic poem aimed at city’s police force
The acting vice-principal of a Hong Kong secondary school has been suspended after sharing an acrostic poem on social media targeting police following an officer’s infection with the coronavirus.
Confucius Hall Secondary School in Causeway Bay said an investigation task force had been set up to look into teacher Ho Pak-yan’s case.
The first word of each of the Cantonese poem’s 11 lines spelt out “black cops, hope your whole family dies and not one member less”.
Part of the poem, which was widely shared across social media over the weekend, reads, “blackhearted is not such a good thing, cops are just doing their jobs”, and “whole community should come together and fight the epidemic as the most effective thing to do, family’s support is also very important”.
But school head Yeung Wing-hon told the Post the teacher had mistakenly shared the poem on Saturday without realising the acrostic elements in it, and had immediately deleted the post once he had been notified of the problem.
