After a summer of being tear gassed, can Hong Kong protesters go back to being students?
CNNCNN — Welcome signs, colorful banners and campus maps are plastered over Hong Kong’s colleges and high schools. Jansen Lam After a summer holiday defined by tear gas, political activism, and the worst political crisis Hong Kong has seen in decades, many young people say they simply can’t return to normal student life. “We totally feel that,” said Wong, presidentof Hong Kong University’s Student Union. “ the past few months, so many things happened that society has become unstable, and we’re all uncertain about what’s going to happen in the very near future,” said Joey Siu, a student union executive member at the City University of Hong Kong. Hong Kong’s Education Bureau, which oversees all education levels, has taken the harshest stance so far, condemning the boycott and asking parents to “dissuade” their children from joining in a letter sent on August 29.