Letters | As school enrolment drops, Hong Kong is in danger of a brain drain

I am writing to respond to the article “Hong Kong children ‘turned away by some popular British schools’ as enrolments hit record high” (December 5).

Amid uncertainty in Hong Kong, many better-off families have sent their children abroad to university, or even emigrated. Vacancies are rising in primary and secondary schools here – dozens of schools face closure.

There are so many reasons people could feel unsettled: the protests, the national security law and most recently, the requirement that schools infuse civic and moral values into all subjects.

When people think that the environment is not suitable for their children to grow up in, they leave. In the short term, more teachers could become unemployed. In the long term, a Hong Kong with fewer young people faces a brain drain and this will hurt the city’s economic prospects.