Taiwanese Students to Protest Ministry of Education's Mobile Device Guidelines
Taipei, May 22 – Students from multiple senior high schools across Taiwan are organizing a protest scheduled for Saturday outside the Ministry of Education (MOE), to express their dissatisfaction with the ministry's draft guidelines regarding the management of mobile device usage in schools.
A student representative, speaking to CNA, cited concerns over the MOE's "top-down" approach, specifically highlighting the lack of student involvement in the policy's development.
The students are urging the MOE to withdraw the current guidelines and to incorporate broader public input, including public debates and hearings, in the creation of a new policy. The current guidelines were published on a government-run platform on May 21 to collect public feedback, aiming to assist schools in managing student use of smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices on campus.
