A student at the leftist Heung To Middle School was suspended for a week for protesting, and threatened with expulsion by the school if he continued to participate in social movements, according to the school’s student concern group.

The form four student was summoned to meet the principal and the head of discipline, who accused the student of uploading a protest slogan on his profile picture on Microsoft Teams, the software for online communication used by the school.

The student was suspended for a week and was told he would be marked for two serious offences if he wished to stay at the school, according to the concern group. He would be expelled immediately if he was found to participate in social movements again.

The student’s parents were also invited to the meeting, where the principal said the incident had damaged the school’s reputation and he had no confidence in the student. He even suggested that expulsion was the best option for the school, the concern group quoted the student as saying.

The concern group said it believed other students complained about the student’s profile picture. It was the toughest punishment handed to a student since the foundation of the concern group.

The school and the Education Bureau have yet to respond to enquiries from Apple Daily.

Previously, an art teacher who had been working at the school for 12 years had her contract terminated after she failed to stop a student from playing the popular protest anthem “Glory to Hong Kong” at an exam. More than 100 students formed a human chain in protest outside the school in support of the teacher.

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