110. Recommendations:
(1) The Government should revise the checklist for schools to fill in
the reasons for dropouts, so that schools do not overly attribute
leaving school to individual students. This will enable the
Government to keep track of the actual reasons for the doubling
of the number of dropouts with each advanced grade in junior
high school and the reasons for high school suspensions and
dropouts.
(2) The Government should ensure that school measures to
encourage junior and senior high school dropouts to return are
effective, and that schools provide active counseling and
assistance to returning students.
(3) The Government should explore ways to help students with low
academic achievement to establish confidence and motivation to
learn, and to improve the quality of teaching to address the
reasons for dropout, such as a large gap in the quality of teaching,
and students' lack of motivation to learn.
(4) Besides child abuse cases, the Government should apply the
Children and Youths Act to also deal with parents who seriously
violate the rights of their children to education, with the best
interests of the child as a priority.
Human Rights Education
111. Regarding §§270-273 of the Second Report, NHRC is aware that
human rights education is one of the top 19 issues in the 2019
Curriculum Guideline, but it is taught as part of the existing syllabus.
The NHRC will continue to keep an eye on whether human rights
education can be successfully delivered in this way. Additionally, the
NHRC found that in the 5 years since the implementation of the Middleterm Plan for Human Rights and Civic Education, student rights on
campus have not been better promoted, so it is difficult to assess the
effectiveness of the plan. The Government has only partially
implemented the four-phase action plan of the United Nations World
Programme for Human Rights Education, and there is no overall
strategic planning.
112. Recommendations:
(1) The National Human Rights Action Plan of the Executive Yuan
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