Taipei Times
Date: Aug 19, 2015
By: Abraham Gerber / Staff reporter
Two student-rights advocates returned to the main site of protests over high-school
Students Hsu Kuan-tse, left, and Chou Tzu-hsiang, accompanied by supporters, walk P03-150819-a1through downtown Taipei yesterday on the final leg of a nationwide walking tour to protest changes to high-school curriculum guidelines. Photo: Weng Yu-huang, Taipei Times
curriculum guideline changes yesterday, completing a national walking tour to highlight the issue.
Hsu Kuan-tse (許冠澤) and Chou Tzu-hsiang (周子翔) led a parade of students and rights advocates in front of the Ministry of Education building for the final leg of the tour, shouting: “Reject black box procedures”; “Oppose brain-washing education”; and “Students are not idiots” as they marched in pouring rain to the ministry gates.
“I have already given up on ministry officials — no matter what you say, they do not listen,” Hsu said. “Eventually, when we grow up, we will take over [their] positions and do a better job.”
Hsu said that while he had kept his word, finishing a nationwide walk, Minister of Education Wu Se-hwa (吳思華) had broken his promise to publicize the names of members of the committee that approved controversial “fine-tuning” of social studies guidelines. [FULL STORY]
