Hong Kong teachers on front line of spotting student suicide risks in ‘top priority’ push


Hong Kong schools have swung into suicide-prevention mode since more than 30 schoolchildren took their lives last year. In the second of a two-part series, the Post examines how teachers and school social workers are coping at the front line of looking out for children in distress, and the multiple other efforts under way to tackle the crisis. Read part one here.

English-language teacher Amy Chan* has been making an extra effort to look out for teenagers in distress since a girl at her Hong Kong secondary school killed herself last year.

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