The Ministry of Education will reform the school council meeting system today (7th). In addition to allowing teachers' reasonable discipline cases to be directly closed at the front end, it also proposes to strengthen the parent discipline responsibility package. If parents do not cooperate with student counseling, the school can link or refer to the family education center. Vulnerable families or cases involving child protection can make social affairs reports. The National Federation of Education Industry (All Education Industry Federation) issued a statement stating that there is still a lack of corresponding penalties and coercive force for parents who do not cooperate. It is difficult to solve the dilemma of front-line counseling and discipline by relying solely on notifications, referrals, notifications, home visits or compulsory parent-child education.
The Ministry of Education revised the teacher dismissal measures this time, clarifying that after a school receives a report, if the teacher's behavior is clearly not punishable according to law, or meets the guidance and discipline standards set by the school in accordance with the law, the case should be closed directly without the need to hold a meeting to decide whether to accept it. At the same time, it has developed "16 Implementation Guidelines for General Discipline Measures for Teachers in Schools below Senior Secondary Schools" in the hope of further clarifying the boundaries of reasonable teacher discipline.
Lin Huirong, chairman of the National Education Industry Association, said that teachers who tutor students in accordance with the school's guidance and student discipline methods may still receive complaints from parents. The problem is not the lack of more guidance, but the current regulatory legal level and insufficient protection. The trade union advocates that the legal status of relevant standards should be raised, teachers should be clearly guaranteed to provide guidance and discipline in accordance with the law, and parents' responsibilities for cooperating with school guidance and discipline should also be regulated simultaneously.
Lin Huirong pointed out that if parents refuse to cooperate, the measures that schools can take are still mainly notifications, referrals and notifications. Without corresponding penalties and coercive force for parents who do not cooperate, front-line teachers may still have to deal with student counseling and discipline issues on the one hand, and face continued complaints from parents on the other. In the end, the responsibility still falls on the school and teachers.
As for the reporting system, Quanjiaonzhen believes that this revision of the law still retains Article 9-1 of the dismissal measures, and there is still room for review of procedural guarantees for cases that may be transferred to the teacher evaluation and punishment process. Although the current dismissal regulations stipulate that some reports must be named, the entire teaching industry maintains that as long as the case may ultimately affect the teacher's right to work, a more rigorous naming and accountability mechanism should be established.
The entire education industry calls on the Ministry of Education to pay attention to the actual needs of teachers’ work rights and campus counseling and discipline, raise the legal level of teacher guidance and discipline regulations, clearly define the responsibilities of parents to cooperate with schools in counseling and discipline, and establish specific and effective handling packages and relevant regulations when they do not cooperate, so as to prevent the responsibilities of counseling and discipline from continuing to be borne by front-line teachers and schools.
