Despite Hong Kong’s status as a financial hub, an increasing number of the city’s residents live below the poverty line. It is a reality we all know and are familiar with — rents and home prices in Hong Kong are among the highest in the world, and this translates to inequality that is also felt in education. Poor students are made to suffer in a system that has changed over the years to become increasingly harder, but not necessarily smarter. For some well-off families this is not a big issue, but for the underprivileged, particularly those born into low-income families, intergenerational poverty is a reality that has been forced on them by a system that makes upward social mobility more a dream than a reality.
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