Teachers urge end to campus incident meeting practiceBy Esme Yeh / Staff reporterHundreds of teachers took part in a rally in Taipei yesterday calling for the abolition of campus incident resolution meetings to stop the waste of administrative resources and ensure decent work for frontline primary and secondary school teachers. The National Federation of Teachers Unions hosted the rally near the Ministry of Education to oppose threatening teachers with dismissal and reputation damage using the mechanism. Campus incident resolution meetings were abused by some students and parents to blame hardworking teachers for trivial matters, or by some school personnel to target teachers in workplace politics, it said. Pingtung Education Industrial Union president Kuo Wei-chen (郭瑋真) said campus incident resolution meetings are squandering administrative resources at schools. Campus incident resolution meetings not only sideline such committees and measures, but also severely discriminate against primary and secondary-school teachers, the federation said.
