Hwa Chong

2022 - 7 - 18

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Hwa Chong reprimands staff member, suspends him from sexuality ... (The Straits Times)

SINGAPORE - A Hwa Chong Institution (HCI) staff member who gave a presentation on sexuality to students containing discriminatory content not approved by ...

The staff member is understood to have delivered the presentation to the school's Secondary 4 cohort, where a portion of it contained content casting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people in a negative light. The spokesman said: "We are aware of the incident which took place during a presentation on sexuality where a staff member incorporated content outside the scope of the Ministry of Education's (MOE) Sexuality Education curriculum into his slides. In response to queries from The Straits Times on Monday (July 18), a school spokesman said HCI is aware of the incident, which happened last Wednesday (July 13).

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Hwa Chong staff reprimanded, suspended from sex education ... (TODAY)

SINGAPORE — Hwa Chong Institution (HCI) has reprimanded a staff member and suspended him from delivering further sexuality education lessons after he made a ...

Advertisement Advertisement SINGAPORE — Hwa Chong Institution (HCI) has reprimanded a staff member and suspended him from delivering further sexuality education lessons after he made a presentation making discriminatory claims against the LGBTQ+ community.

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Hwa Chong Staff Member Suspended From Giving Sex Ed Talks ... (Must Share News)

Sexuality education is critical in teaching kids about topics that are still difficult to broach in households here. Many students will get their sexuality ...

It involved a staff member incorporating content outside the scope of the Education Ministry’s curriculum. According to a statement by Hwa Chong Institution (HCI), the school is aware of the incident that took place during a presentation on sexuality. The staff member who gave the presentation has been reprimanded and suspended from giving sexuality education talks in future, the school said in a statement on Monday (18 Jul).

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HCI reprimands, suspends staff member for anti-LGBTQ+ content: report (Yahoo News UK)

SINGAPORE — A Hwa Chong Institution (HCI) staff member, who gave a presentation on sexuality that contained discriminatory content to the LGBTQ+ community, has been reprimanded and suspended from delivering such school talks.

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Hwa Chong staff member reprimanded for making discriminatory ... (CNA)

SINGAPORE: Hwa Chong Institution (HCI) has reprimanded a staff member who made discriminatory claims against the LGBTQ community during a presentation on ...

“The staff has since been reprimanded for delivering content without the school’s approval and suspended from delivering further sexuality education lessons.” He has also been suspended from delivering further sexuality education lessons. The Hwa Chong Institution employee has also been suspended from delivering sexuality education lessons.

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'1 in 15 homosexuals is a pedophile': Hwa Chong Institution staff ... (AsiaOne)

A sexuality education talk by a Hwa Chong Institution (HCI) staff member drew plenty of flak from netizens after a slide deck that contained discriminatory ...

The staff member who gave the presentation had used content outside the scope of the Ministry of Education's (MOE) Sexuality Education curriculum in his slides, the spokesperson said, adding that the staff member has since been reprimanded and suspended from giving such lessons. Responding to the Straits Times' queries on Monday (July 18), a spokesperson from HCI shared that the school had met their students to "address their concerns". Photos of slides from that presentation were uploaded on social media platform Reddit on Saturday (July 16) with some slides showing statistics of what the LGBT community are "so proud of".

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Hwa Chong Institution suspends teacher for promoting anti-LGBT ... (Coconuts)

A prestigious school facing a major backlash over a homophobic assembly has suspended the teacher responsible.

“The views presented were the individual staff’s personal perspectives and not representative of the position of the school or MOE,” it added. “We are aware of the incident which took place during a presentation on sexuality where a staff member incorporated content outside the scope of the Ministry of Education’s (MOE) Sexuality Education curriculum into his slides,” the secular, all-boys school said in a statement. The Hwa Chong Institution today said it disciplined a staff member who showed a sex ed class of 16-year-old students a slideshow of fabricated statistics smearing the LGBT community as well as a “conversion therapy” video.

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HCI counsellor who gave anti-LGBTQ+ presentation to students ... (The Independent)

After slides from a controversial presentation containing misinformation about members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) ...

Students deserve access to science-based sexuality education that is free from personal beliefs and biases. “The views presented were the individual staff’s personal perspectives and not representative of the position of the school or MOE.” After slides from a controversial presentation containing misinformation about members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community presented to Secondary 4 students were spread online, Hwa Chong Institution (HCI) said on Monday (Jul 18) that the counsellor who made the presentation has been suspended.

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Singapore's well-known Hwa Chong school reprimands staff ... (The Star Online)

A Hwa Chong Institution (HCI) staff member who gave a presentation on sexuality containing discriminatory content to students has been reprimanded and ...

It said schools in Singapore have repeatedly evaded accountability on matters of sexuality. In a recording of his addressed obtained by The Straits Times, Pang acknowledged students’ concerns about the presentation and told them the school counsellor’s views were personal and not representative of the school’s position. The presentation content was not approved by the school and his views do not represent the school’s position, said a HCI spokesman in response to queries on Monday (July 18).

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Hwa Chong staff reprimanded, suspended from sex education ... (TODAY)

Hwa Chong Institution has reprimanded a staff member and suspended him from delivering further sexuality education lessons after he made a presentation ...

TODAY has reached out to MOE for comments on this incident. “Many teenagers at that age are still coming to terms about their own identity and sexuality, and this may cause those students to further retreat into their closet or self-harm… Mr Benjamin Xue, co-founder of LGBTQ youth support organisation Young Out Here, told TODAY that such incidents of counsellors doing harm are not new. “The damage has been done through the offensive stereotyping of LGBTQ people as diseased, immoral, criminal, violent and promiscuous. He also pointed out that this is not the school’s first brush with discriminatory messaging during sexuality education classes. It is also reviewing its processes to ensure such incidents are not repeated, it added.

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I am not what that counsellor taught you: openly gay Hwa Chong ... (Mothership.sg)

He encouraged students who might be questioning their sexuality to learn widely and only decide who they are when they are ready.

The gay teachers I know are not what he taught you. “I am not what that internal counsellor taught you. I am not the kind of person the internal counsellor will have you believe. "I bought lots of books on the subject and spoke to many gay seniors, who guided me towards a life of hope and showed me that being gay does not affect my ability to live a fulfilling and moral life," he added. Fong imagined the talk would drive students to hate gay people, and cause students who are gay to be even more afraid to reveal their identity. "Being gay does not affect my ability to live a fulfilling and moral life"

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