Private middle schools hold the "Little Entrance Examination", and the National Education Council calls for the amendment of the private school law to ban it.

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[Reporter Lin Xiaoyun/Taipei Report] Recently, it is the hot season for private junior high schools to enroll students. Some privately pass the basic academic ability screening, pass the entrance examination in disguise, or use various science camps, multiple intelligence growth camps, and mathematics, science, and Chinese elite competitions as packages to enroll students. , The National Federation of Teachers’ Unions today called on the Ministry of Education and legislators to revise Article 57 of the “Private School Law” to completely prohibit private schools from enrolling students in exams and camps under various names, so as to ensure the publicization of education and the implementation of normal teaching in primary and secondary schools .

Hou Junliang, chairman of the National Education Council, said that the reason why "stars" are able to "excellent academic performance" in private is due to the screening mechanism for students' grades at the time of admission, and the face validity obtained by violating the normalization of teaching. Students from admission to graduation, There are many chaos in the teaching scene that are distorted for the sake of grades, completely ignoring the concept of normalization of teaching.

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Hou Junliang said that junior high school is the stage of compulsory education. In addition to intellectual development, schools should provide students with the possibility of diverse and adaptive development. Every child should also have the opportunity to be treated fairly. However, some students in grades 3 and 4 of primary schools, in order to Successfully passing the difficult exam questions of the "Private School Junior Entrance Examination" requires a lot of time for cramming and over-scheduled learning, which makes the childhood that should be relatively stress-free. Up to 80% of the students who failed the exam also encountered the first major event in their lives before entering junior high school. frustration.

He Junyan, vice chairman of the National Education Federation, said that some privately use the right of parents to choose as an excuse, and everywhere rely on the marketization of education. Regarding the amendments to the relevant provisions of the private school law, the Ministry of Education should no longer be an ostrich, and neither should the ruling and opposition legislators. Due to the pressure of interest groups and delays, the law should be amended as soon as possible, which is the fundamental solution to the current chaos.

The General Education Council advocates that private school enrollment should be compared to public elementary and middle schools, and the education bureau should design a system. Private schools will unify online registration, computer lottery, and computer normal class formation, so as to protect students' right to education and implement the concept of state education without discrimination. The competent authority should strictly inspect the enrollment and operation of private schools, and the central competent authority should immediately complete the legal system, safeguard the normalization of compulsory education and teaching in the state religion, and supervise local education chaos according to the law.

Hou Junliang said that if the chaos between the central and local governments continues to occur when enrolling in middle schools, based on the consideration of the best interests of students, in the future, the ACFTU will not rule out uniting with the national public elementary and middle school educators to take action against the Ministry of Education who is negligent in its power and violates the state education. He expressed his protest against the chaotic admissions of private junior high schools, and called on the Overwatch Council to immediately and effectively supervise, and return children to a normal and fair learning environment and a childhood of diverse and adaptive development.