Hong Kong education authorities apologize for early school allocation SMS glitch

In a city where a child's first school placement carries the gravity of a long-awaited verdict, Hong Kong's Education Bureau found itself apologizing Tuesday after a technical glitch sent thousands of parents early SMS notifications bearing correct school names but a corrupted calendar year. The messages arrived a full day before the official June 3 announcement, flooding the bureau's hotline with families seeking to understand what they had actually been told. It is a small administrative failure, but one that touched something larger — the fragile trust that institutions must maintain when t