In the 1980s, the Carmel Secondary School in Kowloon, which had previously been an English-medium school, announced that it was changing to a Chinese-medium school, with instruction in Cantonese. But after doing so, it was unable to recruit enough pupils to fill all its places.
一九八○年代，原為「英中」的九龍迦密中學，對外宣稱要以廣東話作為學校教學語言，也就是由「英中」改「中中」了，結果卻招不到足額學生。