New Power Party (NPP) Legislator Claire Wang (王婉諭) on Friday advocated against embroidering names on school uniforms to protect personal information and ensure gender equality.
She called on the Ministry of Education to waive the rule, which is required by 50 percent of junior-high and high schools, with 25 percent of high schools only imposing the rule on male students.
Wang first raised the issue during a question-and-answer session at a meeting of the legislature’s Education and Culture Committee in March, saying that a student at Taipei Municipal Chenggong High School was tracked down online because their name was embroidered on their
Taipei, Feb. 15 (CNA) Minister of Education Pan Wen-chung (潘文忠) said Tuesday that he was mulling scrapping compulsory 7:30 a.m. study sessions at junior and senior high schools.