Taipei Times
Date: Sep 19, 2015
By: Abraham Gerber / Staff reporter
The adoption of stray animals should be included in evaluations of school performance,
Life Conservationist Association director Ho Tsung-hsun in Taipei yesterday announces the results of a national survey of animal adoptions in schools. Photo: Liao Chen-huei, Taipei Times
animal rights advocates said yesterday, announcing the results of a national survey of school adoptions.
“When the Ministry of Education evaluates a school’s ‘life education,’ one of the measures it should include is whether they have adopted a stray animal,” Animal Protection Administration Oversight Committee board member Wang Wei-chi (王唯治) told a press conference in Taipei.
“You can not just say there are exams on related material, you need to show cases demonstrating that your ‘life education’ is a success,” Wang said.
In addition to adopting stray animals, schools could also be evaluated based on how many students were involved in caring for the animal and reports on what they had learned, he said. [FULL STORY]
