Boycott at Taixing Elementary School on first day of school term

On August 31, elementary schools around the country began the first day of the new term. However, at Taixing Elementary School in Meishan Township, Chiayi County, a lack of prior communication with parents regarding the process of transitioning into a new teaching system, resulted in parent dissatisfaction and strikes at the behest of the school’s parents’ association. Hearing news of the strike, the county education officer immediately visited the school to address the situation. 

Headmistress at the school, Zeng Yue-zhao (曾月照), said: “The incident happened because parents were dissatisfied with the county’s decision to change the original plan of transitioning Xingping Elementary School into an ‘alternative school or forest school’ to a ‘mixed-age experimental elementary school’. When the plan failed to meet parents’ expectations, the parent’s association decided to launch a collective boycott of classes, taking a day’s leave as a technical way to achieve it.”

Boycott at Taixing Elementary School on first day of school term

URL:https://www.peopo.org/news/285779 

(以下是中文對照)

開學日 太興國小罷課 影音

8月31日，各地小學陸續開課，但是位處偏鄉的嘉義縣梅山鄉太興國小，卻因為學校轉型過程，未事先與家長溝通說明，引起家長不滿，在家長會的主導下，發起罷課抗議行動，縣教育處得知消息後，即刻上山處理善後。

太興國小校長曾月照表示：整起事件是因為學生家長不滿縣府決定，由原規劃「興平實驗小學(森林小學)」的夢想學園，轉型為「混齡實驗小學」與家長的期待產生落差所致，因此家長會以技術性發動集體請假行動抵制。