Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School, Taipei’s leading boys’ high school, said it will start accepting female students next year.
The decision came after the Ministry of Education requested that the school start accepting female students to promote gender equality during a meeting to review the results of advanced science classes at nine senior-high schools, Jianguo principal Hsu Chien-kuo (徐建國) said.
Jianguo is the only one among the nine schools with advanced science classes that excludes female students, K-12 Education Administration official Han Chun-shu (韓春樹) said.
The other schools are the High School of National Taiwan Normal University, National Wu-Ling Senior High School, National Experimental High School at Hsinchu Science Park, National Taichung First Senior High School, National Changhua Senior High School, National Chiayi Senior High School, Tainan First High School and Kaohsiung Municipal Senior High School.
Female students at the other eight schools are equally adept at science and the administration welcomes Jianguo’s decision to accept female students, Han said.
Jianguo will announce that girls are welcome to apply to its science classes next year, Hsu said.
If Jianguo manages to attract female students next year, it will be “earth-shattering” news, as the school has never had female students since its founding in 1898, he said, adding that Jianguo will prepare for the change by increasing the number of female restrooms and showers.
Hsu said he is optimistic about the change, adding that it would be mutually beneficial for potential female students and the school if they choose to study in Jianguo’s fine learning environment.
The only concern over the change is that if female students find it difficult to fit in, they would not be able to transfer to other classes, such as regular and advanced social studies or advanced mathematics, as the classes would not be available to them, Hsu said.
If Jianguo makes the transition, it will make the Taipei Municipal Chenggong Senior High School and New Taipei City’s St Ignatius High School the nation’s only remaining all-boys secondary education institutions.
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