The Teacher are Real Worried After Hearing about the No Examination Entrance into Schools

This, is what the reform of education is getting at here, from the Front Page Sections, translated…

The three presidential candidates are all very critical of the twelve years of mandatory education, and, they’d all stood, on the fronts of eliminating the entrance exams, only from the perspectives of the middle school teachers, are the worries felt.

There would be two major requirements, for there to be an elimination of entrance examinations from elementary into middle school: first, middle school is teaching the fundamental courses, the materials wouldn’t be different at every school.  Secondly, it’s based off of school districts, the schools are closer to the students’ homes; but, as the students go into high school, things may be different and more complicated, because the high school level of education split into two kinds of schools, occupational and academics, and, in the occupational high schools, the students would need to select a major, and so, the districting won’t work.

A candidate posed, that if all the schools are increasing their quality of education, then, the goals of eliminating the entrance exams would be achieved.  The country had used the system of nine years of mandatory education since 1968 up to date, and, the middle schools aren’t, up to the standards of excellence at all, then, how will we be able to, up the quality of education in the high school and technical high schools?  The candidates’ claims of “no entrance exams” are merely lies to get the votes, if the quality of the high schools, the technical high schools don’t improve, there’s no way the elimination of entrance exams can be achieved at all; plus, once the entrance exams are eliminated completely, then, the middle school students would become even less studious, and the quality of the students would surely, be on the decline.

And so, this, is a school teacher’s view, on the reforms of education here, and, she is right, but because Taiwan wants to catch up to the western world, that, is why it’s trying to, emulate the systems that worked in the western world, without realizing, that hey, maybe what worked with the U.S. and European nations may NOT work for us, due to geographic and cultural differences, plus, if you eliminate the entrance exams, then, the students would totally have ZERO need to show up for class, and then, the quality of the citizens in the future would be, declining too.