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[00:00:30] If it's free now, then the money won't be refunded to the parents,
[00:00:34] right?
[00:00:35] ?
[00:00:39] Then the lunch will still be the full portion for the whole class, and it won't be reduced to
[00:00:43] the portion for students who apply for it. This might indeed cause some waste
[00:00:47] here. There should be a fixed subsidy,
[00:00:50] and parents can additionally add fees through a democratic mechanism.
[00:00:54] The first part of this, of course, will not exacerbate the so-called local finances.
[00:00:58] 加 加 深 所 谓 的 地 方 财 。
[00:01:21] But behind it hides complex financial challenges. Looking at the prices of nutritious lunches for students in the six major cities in the first semester of 2025,
[00:01:25] Taipei City is about
[00:01:29] 76% to 86 yuan per person per meal, and New Taipei City is the second highest,
[00:01:32] about 75 yuan per meal. In Taoyuan and Taichung,
[00:01:36] it's only in the sixties, and in Tainan, the price of a meal at elementary schools
[00:01:40] is about 53 yuan. Given the reality of varying
[00:01:44] local financial conditions, free nutritious lunches may create new
[00:01:48] inequalities and widen the gap between urban and rural areas.
[00:01:52] Although every place has free meals today, are they all getting
[00:01:56] the same? So some local governments may have a little more funding.
[00:03:27] If they can't make it up, they'll just have to fight.
[00:04:00] The annual budget for nutritious lunches in Taichung City has exceeded 2
[00:04:04] billion yuan.
[00:04:14] Free nutritious lunches have been implemented, and huge expenditures may
[00:04:18] crowd out other education funds. Perhaps what was
[00:04:22] originally planned as secondary or less important in the ranking
[00:04:26] might be replaced. Because this is actually a very realistic
[00:04:30] policy. If under this policy, with the same money,
[00:04:34] when it's allocated, some may get a little less. The free nutritious
[00:04:37] lunch policy not only involves the issue of participation fees,
[00:04:41] but also the design of the system is being discussed. When
[00:04:45] all 22 counties and cities join the subsidy, what is being tested
[00:04:49] is not only the leadership of the county and city mayors, but also the integrity of the national
[00:04:53] system. How to balance financial sustainability and
[00:04:56] the stability of public meal quality has become the top priority.
[00:07:13] All need support. The legislation for the nutritious lunch law is currently ongoing,
[00:07:17] with cross-party negotiations. When free
[00:07:21] nutritious lunches become a consensus across Taiwan, how to clarify the responsibilities
[00:07:25] of the central and local governments, establish stable funding and
[00:07:28] unified norms, so that children's right to food is not affected by
[00:07:32] urban-rural disparities or financial will determine whether this is a
[00:07:36] policy fireworks or a long-term
[00:07:39] commitment to the next generation.
[00:13:26] If we think positively, then it's a good
[00:13:30] ending. On the whiteboard, writing paragraphs is what
[00:13:33] Mr. Wei Li, an elementary school teacher who just turned 20,
[00:13:37] usually does. Besides preparing lessons and teaching, checking students'
[00:13:41] homework and grading exams are also his daily
[00:13:44] work.
[00:13:46] 。
[00:13:50] From arriving at school at around 7 am, the teacher's day is packed.
[00:13:53] 凑 ,
[00:13:55] I feel very rushed,
[00:14:15] we just spent all the time in the meeting,
[00:14:19] what should we do if we don't eat for those 40 minutes?
[00:14:22] ?
[00:14:55] It was originally my time to rest or eat.
[00:14:59] Taking elementary school as an example, each grade has half-day
[00:15:03] classes every week. Before the free nutritious lunch was implemented,
[00:15:07] some schools did not provide meals for half-day classes. After school, if the children
[00:15:10] did not participate in after-school care classes, they would be picked up by tutoring centers
[00:15:14] or taken home by their parents to arrange their own lunch.
[00:15:18] But now that free meals are universally provided, even
[00:15:22] for half-day classes,
[00:16:07] it's just adding an extra lunch box and having the teacher eat with them.
[00:16:11] What's so hard about that? What it easily overlooks is its hidden cost.
[00:16:15] Because parents now have various expectations, if you eat too much,
[00:16:19] they'll complain to the teacher, and if you eat too little, they'll think the teacher didn't supervise
[00:16:22] well. When students are eating, they're always
[00:16:26] playing around, making a mess, and it's all the teacher's problem. Therefore, teachers are very afraid
[00:16:30] of eating with them. From serving to continuing to eat,
[00:16:34] it seems like it's just keeping students for one more meal.
[00:18:07] But if you're in class,
[00:18:11] and you have to take care of students, it means the teacher is sacrificing their
[00:18:14] health and their lunch break, and then they have to
[00:18:18] put in extra effort to take care of them. I think this puts a little
[00:18:22] bit of pressure on the teachers. Teachers' workload has increased,
[00:18:26] and they often cannot eat normally at lunchtime.
[00:18:29] However, in this situation, the free lunch policy
[00:18:33] mostly subsidizes only students, not including
[00:19:07] teachers. Whether or not teachers have free lunch has never
[00:19:11] been the core issue. The real dilemma is
[00:19:14] that as the responsibility of caring for students continues to increase,
[00:19:18] even the most basic meal time is being squeezed.
[00:19:22] Compared to an extra free meal, what they look forward
[00:19:25] to, perhaps, is just being able to sit down and finish a meal
[00:19:29] and prepare for class.
[00:19:31] 。
[00:20:50] The ratio of teachers to students will increase from 1.7 to 1.75.
[00:20:53] In addition, junior high and elementary school homeroom teachers will have one less class.
[00:23:20] has reached 700 people. In the future, in our draft,
[00:23:24] we actually also retain some flexibility, allowing local
[00:23:27] governments to recruit a certain number of people
[00:23:31] in county and city governments.
[00:23:34] 。
[00:23:38] is the original intention of the free nutritious lunch policy. But
[00:23:42] after the policy is implemented, how to ensure the needs of the teaching
[00:23:46] field and avoid the responsibility of care continuously falling on the front line.
[00:23:52] In terms of time, what is being tested is not only financial investment, but also whether the system design can truly
[00:23:56] help the voices of the education
[00:23:59] field.
[00:24:03] The original intention of promoting free nutritious lunches was to hope that every child could eat safely and
[00:24:07] nutritiously during their growth stage, but local governments' financial
[00:24:10] situations vary, and whether this may affect students'
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[00:25:16] .
[00:28:42] Teachers play an important role in each of our growth stages,
[00:28:46] but with the changes of the times, many teachers have reported that modern
[00:28:50] students no longer respect teachers as they used to, and some even
[00:28:54] physically assault or verbally abuse teachers. Incidents of teachers being bullied
[00:28:58] by students are not uncommon, especially for teachers who are supposed
[00:29:02] to impart knowledge and solve problems.
[00:30:14] Welcome to the 4 PM news. I'm Zhang Ning.
[00:30:17] 。
[00:30:21] A strong gust of wind and heavy rain hit Taipei City. A temporary
[00:30:25] scaffold and banner on Minquan West Road were blown down by the strong wind.
[00:30:29] For more details on the scene, connect to reporter Cai Yong'en.