Welcome signs, colorful banners and campus maps are plastered over Hong Kong's colleges and high schools. It's the first week of school, but there's one problem -- thousands of students are missing from the classrooms.
Welcome signs, colorful banners and campus maps are plastered over Hong Kong's colleges and high schools.
It's the first week of school, but there's one problem -- thousands of students are missing from the classrooms.At 10 of the city's 13 universities, students are staging a class boycott, and student union leaders estimate that more than 100 secondary schools also planned class strikes.
While the demonstrations have spanned all demographics, young people have become the face of the movement, and some have been at the most violent, extreme end of the clashes. More than 1,100 protesters have been arrested this summer -- one 13-year-old was arrested for being in possession of two petrol bombs, police say.Read MoreNow students are going through the motions of starting a new school year, buying books and registering for classes.
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