21 Nov 2025追光者#7567
諸聖中學容許學生自選簡體字答卷 團體憂動搖文化根基
After two government primary schools in Sha Tin and Hong Kong Island sparked controversy earlier by allowing students to use simplified Chinese in tests and examinations, Kowloon Sheng Kung Hui All Saints’ Middle School has also been accused of allowing students to answer in simplified Chinese in unified tests. It was further reported that the school had issued notices several years ago allowing students to choose between traditional and simplified Chinese, with some classes seeing “most students choosing simplified Chinese, with only three or four choosing traditional Chinese.”
The Cantonese preservation organisation Konghub received a reader tip-off yesterday (20th) alleging that the school had for years provided simplified-Chinese examination papers for students who were not proficient in traditional Chinese, including a simplified-Chinese mathematics unified test paper. The tipster said the arrangement “could undermine the teaching foundation built on the use of traditional Chinese in Hong Kong for many years” and expressed concern that it could affect the transmission of traditional Chinese, students’ cultural identity and their ability to adapt to the mainstream written language. Konghub questioned whether the Education Bureau was exercising inadequate supervision, warning that this could further narrow the scope for using traditional Chinese in Hong Kong.
繼沙田及港島兩間官立小學早前因容許學生在測考使用簡體字引起爭議後，九龍聖公會諸聖中學亦被指在統一測驗中容許學生選用簡體字作答。消息更指，校方在幾年前已經在測驗前發出通告，容許讓學生選擇以繁體或簡體作答，有個別班級更出現「大部分學生揀簡體、只有三四人選繁體」的情況。
粵語保育組織「Konghub」昨（20日）收到讀者報料，指諸聖中學多年來提供簡體字試卷，供不擅繁體字的學生選用，並附上一份以簡體字數學科統一測驗卷佐證。報料者認為有關安排「或動搖香港多年沿用繁體字的教學基礎」，並憂慮影響繁體字傳承，影響學生的文化認同及適應主流語文的能力。Konghub質疑教育局監管不力，恐令繁體字在港的使用空間進一步萎縮。
7 Nov 2025獨媒#7504
沙田官小家長發起聯署 促撤回校內測考可用簡體字
Shatin Government Primary School’s decision to allow students to answer school tests and examinations in simplified Chinese has sparked major controversy. A group of parents launched a petition, arguing that the arrangement is unfair to local students and expressing dissatisfaction that the school introduced it without consultation. They are demanding the withdrawal of the new assessment standard. As of the afternoon of 7 November, the petition had received 320 signatures.
The reply slip only provided an option to support the school. On Monday, 3 November, Shatin Government Primary School issued a notice to parents saying that, to provide a more accommodating assessment environment for students from mainland backgrounds or those accustomed to using simplified Chinese, and to allow local students to become familiar with the two Chinese writing systems, it would follow the public examination guidelines of the Education Bureau and the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority. Students in Primary 2 to Primary 6 would therefore be allowed to answer school tests and examinations using standard simplified Chinese characters. The school stressed, however, that traditional Chinese characters remained the mainstream writing standard and that the curriculum would continue to use traditional Chinese characters as its main teaching content.
沙田官立小學容許校內測驗及考試使用簡體字作答一事，引起極大爭議。有家長發起聯署，認為做法對本地生不公，更不滿校方零諮詢下推行，要求撤回新評分標準，截至今日（11月7日）下午已獲320個簽名。
回條只設支持學校選項
沙田官立小學周一（11月3日）向家長發通告，指為內地背景或習慣使用簡體字的學生提供更友善評核環境，並讓本地學生認識兩種中文書寫體系，故參照教育局及考評局公開考試指引，允許二至六年級學生在校內測驗及考試使用正規簡體字作答，但強調繁體字仍是主流書寫標準，課程亦繼續沿用繁體字為主要教學內容。
6 Nov 2025Yahoo#7495
沙田官小准用簡體字應考︱梁振英指不同背景學生都應學繁體字：「教不嚴，師之惰」
Sha Tin Government Primary School’s decision to allow students to answer internal tests and examinations in simplified Chinese has sparked controversy. Former Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying responded on social media today (the 6th), saying, “Students’ progress and results in learning traditional Chinese are one matter; a school giving up the requirement and abandoning its responsibility to teach is another.” He said that the traditional Chinese characters retained in Hong Kong, Cantonese and a high level of English proficiency are all characteristics of Hong Kong, and considered them necessary. He ultimately described the incident as “If teaching is not strict, it is the teacher’s negligence.”
Asking, “Why not make an effort to learn traditional Chinese?”
Leung said he understood that students from mainland backgrounds or who were accustomed to using simplified Chinese might not initially be used to traditional Chinese after coming to Hong Kong. However, Hong Kong is an SAR that uses traditional Chinese, and he asked, “Why not make an effort to learn traditional Chinese? If you work in Hong Kong in the future, can you do without traditional Chinese?” He stressed that traditional Chinese is used in government documents, foreign-funded, mainland-funded and Hong Kong-funded companies, newspapers and books, as well as in the documents of students from the mainland who come to Hong Kong.
沙田官立小學允許學生在校內測驗及考試使用簡體字作答引起爭議，前行政長官梁振英今日（6 日）在社交平台發文回應，指「學生學習繁體字的進度和成績是一碼事，學校放棄要求，放棄教的責任是另外一碼事。」他又指，香港保留的繁體字、粵語和高水平的英語能力，都是香港的特色，認為是有必要，最後更以「教不嚴，師之惰」形容事件。
反問「為什麼不努力學繁體字？」
梁振英表示，理解有「內地背景或習慣使用簡體字的學生」初來香港未必習慣繁體字，但香港是使用繁體字的特區，反問「為什麼不努力學繁體字？日後在香港工作，可以不用繁體字嗎？」他強調，香港在政府公文、外資中資港資企業、報刊書籍，還有內地來港的學生在香港的證件，無一不用繁體字。
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