National Education Federation Condemns New Taipei City Government Over Drug-Feeding Incident

[Reporter Lin Xiaoyun/Taipei Report]The suspected drug-feeding incident in a private kindergarten in New Taipei City has become more and more serious. The National Federation of Teachers Unions issued a statement today questioning it. There is still no complete investigation result. The entire Taiwanese society has paid for it. The huge social cost is a very harmful social attack on children, teachers, parents and kindergartens, and it will cause such a result. The chief executive of New Taipei City and his team should bear the greatest responsibility. The bureaucrats of the New Taipei City government His arrogance and indifference caused Taiwan society to pay a huge social cost.

In response to some New Taipei City councilors pointing out that a large number of primary and secondary school principals were assigned to serve as Mayor Hou Youyi’s human wall last night, “8 people in the human wall” must be “around the mayor”, 4 men and 4 men each, to help stop councilors or media concerns, etc. affair. Hou Junliang, chairman of the National Education Council, criticized that this move not only avoids public supervision, does not help to clarify the facts, but also completely disrespects educational personnel. The government respects educators, clarifies the facts of the case as soon as possible, properly places the children, and rebuilds the trust of parents.

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Hou Junliang also directly pointed out that the actions of the education authority in New Taipei City caused extreme panic among the children and parents involved in the whole incident. Firstly, they doubted whether there was really a victim, and secondly, they worried about the expansion of the case. Such a double panic mentality led to The entire panic effect spilled over, making parents of kindergartens across the country panic.

Yang Yifei, deputy secretary-general of the National Education Federation and chairman of the Early Childhood Education Committee, said that the negative effects of the case in New Taipei City have affected the dignity of the education and security personnel across the country. Is medicine a secret that no one knows in kindergartens”, “Regular urine and blood tests for all children in Taiwan”, “Compulsory installation of surveillance cameras”, “If you don’t love to be a preschool teacher, you will die”, etc. This single incident has become a The weapon used by the society to attack the Jiaobao staff has dealt a severe blow to the Jiaobao staff and has no dignity. To this day, the New Taipei City Government has still failed to explain the incident clearly, allowing such public opinion to continue to damage the social image of the Jiaobao staff.

Yang Yifei said that the AFCCC condemned the New Taipei City government team for failing to effectively respond to social expectations, which in turn caused harm to other education and security personnel across the country, and also appealed to the general public. They devote their lives to managing early childhood education, and they also treat children as their own children. When they face any dangers and conflicts in the hard-working childcare scene, they always put children as the top priority. The extreme situation in New Taipei City The case is not what the childcare scene actually looked like.

Hou Junliang said that facing such social cases in New Taipei City, the whole school feels sorry for them. However, for the staff who are still guarding the children at the scene, they have the most respectful attitude, thank them for their hard work, and appeal to the public Calmly judge and wait for the truth of the case, and stop speculative negative words about the educators on site.