Good Hope School put out guidance for this year's graduation video. No Cantonese allowed, apparently, not even for the bit where everyone sings along. Someone posted it online, and within about a day the school had walked the whole thing back, saying it "regrets" the guidance and never meant to ban the language. Funny how fast regret shows up once a post goes viral.

Here's the bit worth sitting with. Cantonese is what basically everyone in this school speaks at home, in the yard, ordering lunch. A graduation video is supposed to be the fun one, the one with the inside jokes. Somebody in an office decided that specific video needed to run in Mandarin and English instead, presumably because that looks tidier on a report somewhere. Nobody asked the students. The students, being students, told the internet, and the internet did the rest. The school didn't lose an argument. It lost a vote it never called.