Taipei Times
Date: Jun 10, 2015

Liberty Times: The student club [you are a member of] at Taichung First Senior High School

Taichung First Senior High School student Liao Chung-lun speaks in an interview in Taipei on Monday about the Ministry of Education’s curriculum adjustments.
Photo: Chang Chia-ming, Taipei Times

was the first student body to publicly criticize the planned adjustments to the high-school curriculum guidelines. What is the main issue that provoked you and what are you hoping to achieve?

Liao Chung-lun (廖崇倫): I have been following the issue since as early as 2009, when then-minister of education Cheng Jui-cheng (鄭瑞城) halted the three-year discussions over proposals to adjust the high-school curriculum.

I subsequently discovered that proposed changes to textbooks used to teach social sciences at high schools — slated to be implemented this August — had not involved any discussion with the teachers who would teach the classes, and the decision to change the curriculum guidelines was rushed past a small panel of academics that were not even experts in the subjects under discussion.     [FULL  STORY]