HK TEACHERS STRUGGLE TO DEAL WITH STUDENTS' EMOTIONAL ISSUES

There are not enough school counselors to handle the problems typical among young people. Instead, the job falls to teachers, who lack the expertise to address the problem, as Nora Zheng reports.

For many teachers in Hong Kong, the job has become little more than drudgery.

However, that's not a result of the long hours required to prepare good lessons, or the time spent in class, the endless staff meetings or supervision of extracurricular activities - but because the extra effort required to deal with troubled children can be soul destroying.