The Ministry of Education revamps the school council system. The entire education system calls for the abolition of the system and not minor repairs.

The Ministry of Education reformed the school meeting system today (7th), stipulating that cases of reasonable discipline of teachers can be directly closed, and general punishment cases are limited to external investigations. The National Federation of Teachers Unions (All-China Federation of Teachers Unions) issued a statement today, affirming that the Ministry of Education attaches great importance to "small cases are dealt with big", but believes that the core shortcomings of the system have not been addressed. It bluntly stated that "the disease has not been solved, and minor repairs are still in vain." It once again called for the abolition of the school meeting.

Ye Qingqi, chairman of the National Education Commission, said that the Ministry of Education revised Article 8 of the teacher dismissal measures this time. If the teacher's behavior is clearly not punishable according to law, the case can be closed directly without holding a meeting to decide whether to accept it. When the competent authority receives such reports, it can also close the case directly without notifying the school to handle it. This at least means that the Ministry of Education is facing up to the unreasonable phenomenon that teachers may go all the way to school council meetings and investigation procedures as long as they are reported. However, "reducing the number of cases entering school council meetings" does not mean solving the problem of the system itself.

The All-China Federation of Education raised six disputes. The first is that the regulations use terms such as "perpetrator" and "victim" before the case is investigated and the facts are not determined. There are doubts about the "presumption of guilt" and they advocate the use of neutral terms such as "reported person" instead.

Secondly, the All-China Federation of Education questioned the legality of incorporating general teacher evaluation and punishment into the school council system. It believed that the Teachers Law authorized the establishment of investigation procedures for dismissal, non-renewal, suspension or dismissal, which did not mean that general evaluation and punishment should also be included.

The All-China Education Federation also believes that although the new system allows cases that are "obviously" legal or comply with counseling and discipline regulations to be quickly concluded, there is still a lack of accountability mechanism to prevent abuse of procedures in cases of repeated, malicious accusations or lack of specific evidence; investigators also lack an effective evaluation, elimination and accountability system if the scope of the investigation is unclear, evidence selection is unbalanced, or the report has major flaws.

Ye Qingqi pointed out that even if teachers are reinstated after being temporarily suspended due to the investigation, the current scope of repayment does not cover losses such as salary differences caused by administrative and tutor bonuses and failure to be promoted due to assessments; if there are errors in fact determination, evidence selection, or legal evaluation, the investigation report also lacks a complete response and error correction mechanism.

Ye Qingqi said that school affairs meetings have caused a chilling effect, administrative attrition and defensive teaching by teachers. School affairs meetings should be abolished directly instead of making minor repairs.