Teachers in Tainan County took to the streets in a protest march in the county’s Sinying City (新營市) yesterday to voice their dissatisfaction with Tainan County Commissioner Su Huan-chih’s (蘇煥智) education policies.
More than 1,000 members of the Tainan County Teachers’ Association and other teachers’ groups formed a procession more than 600m long that ended outside the county hall at about 11am.
Association chairman Hsu You-jen (許又仁) said that in Su’s six years of service, the county government’s education policies had sparked a lot of controversy.
He cited problems such as a lack of respect for grassroots teachers and professionalism, as well as administrative interference in schools’ operations — all of which he said had led to widespread dissatisfaction among county teachers.
The teachers are marching to express their concern about the county education system’s slipping competitiveness as a result of the local government’s policies, Hsu said.
At the county hall, a representative of the association presented a petition to Wang Kun-yuan (王崑源), director of the county’s education department, listing five of the association’s demands.
The demands included the pursuit of sustainable educational development, an increase in the education budget, the implementation of an impartial teacher evaluation system, respect for teachers’ autonomy and respect for the law in administering the education system.
Upon receiving the petition, Wang said he respected the right of teachers to express their dissatisfaction and to make a petition.
However, he said that the government would not change its position on the issue of teacher evaluation.
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