Teachers urge ministry to reconsider proposal to conduct bullying surveyBy Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporterThe National Federation of Teachers’ Unions yesterday urged the Ministry of Education to reconsider plans to have schools conduct a survey of students on bullying that the federation says contains ambiguous language. The Ministry of Education on July 21 revised its guidelines on the prevention of bullying on school campuses to change the definition of the term “campus bullying” from bullying between students to bullying by principals, teachers, staff members or students toward students, the federation said. Representatives of the National Federation of Teachers’ Unions hold a news conference in Taipei yesterday to criticize a proposed Ministry of Education survey on school bullying. Hou also questioned why the proposed survey only includes questions about bullying by other students or teachers. “According to the Ministry of Education’s logic, they [principals and staff members] do not have this problem” of bullying students, he said.

Source: Taipei Times October 06, 2020 15:56 UTC