A 1996 report from the Education Commission, the Hong Kong government's main advisory body on education policy, even proposed that the Education Department should set up a system of "sanctions" against schools which did not adopt mother-tongue instruction.
甚至在一九九六年，香港政府教育政策的主要諮詢組織「教育統籌委員會」的報告書，還要求香港教育署訂立「制裁」制度，懲罰不以母語教學的學校。