Students go back to same high-risk school due to parental protest

Taiwan News
Date: 2016-09-05
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

In a twist of events, and due largely to parents’ refusal to send their children to a farther school, students of an elementary school located closely to a highly polluting industrial area go to the same school as before after the central government briefly ordered them to go to another area school to avoid exposure to potentially hazardous air pollution.

Ciaotou Elementary School’s Syucuo branch is located only 900 meters from the highly polluting petrochemical industrial area in Mailiao Township, Yunlin County, where Formosa Petrochemical’s Sixth Naphtha Cracking Plant is based.

Two weeks ago, the Executive Yuan ordered the students in the high risk school to go to Fengrong Elementary School in neighboring Lunbei Township. But the concern for the school children’s health has been met with refusal and protests from student parents.     [FULL  STORY]