Petition aims to push back middle and high school start time to 10 am

Petition aims to push back middle and high school start time to 10 am

2025-09-15

Does school start too early in the day? That’s something that a petition is trying to change, to make classes at middle and high schools start at 10 in the morning and end at 4 in the afternoon. Petitioners say students aren’t getting enough sleep, and starting later would make for better class performance. The petition has collected enough signatures to legally require the Ministry of Education to respond to it before Nov.14. Let’s hear what people think.

Member of public
Used to start school at 7:30
Back in high school, we woke up at 5:30 in the morning. We had to take the train to Taipei Main Station and transfer. If we arrived at 7:30, it’d be considered late. Then we had group study, and flag-raising was at 8.

Member of public
Used to start school at 7:30
We had to be at school at 7:30 in the morning. We had group study, with a lot of test questions.

Hou Chun-liang
National Federation of Teachers Unions
If it is just to give students more sleep time, I think it’s not a good enough reason. If you push everything back, they’ll just go to bed even later.

Wu Li-hua
Lawmaker (DPP)
Taiwanese students do spend more time at school than in many other countries in the world. We’ll keep a close watch on any developments from the Ministry of Education.

Before 2022, middle school students had to be in school by 7:30 in the morning, and would only be let out at 5 in the afternoon. That was a total of 9.5 hours at school, the most of any country in the world. In contrast, students in Japan, Canada or Australia start class at 9 and end at 3.

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#education #school #start #morningperson #highschool #middleschool #class #classes

民眾提案"國高中延至10:00到校" 不到一週萬人連署響應

2025-09-15

有民眾在"公共政策網路參與平台"提案，主張把國、高中上課時間延後到上午10點，並在下午4點下課，改善學生長期睡眠不足、提升學習效率，提案不到一週就通過門檻，而教育部依法得在11月14日前正式答覆。

[[民眾]]
“我們以前(高中)大概5點半就要起床，因為我們要坐火車到台北車站去換車，7點半就算遲到了，早自習，8點升旗。”

[[民眾]]
“7點半就到學校要早自習，(早自習)考試的考題也是很多。”

[[全教總理事長侯俊良]]
“如果只是為了學生的睡眠狀況，我覺得(理由)充分度還不是很足夠，因為也有可能我們讓時間延後之後，學生是會更晚睡覺。”

[[立委(民) 伍麗華]]
“我國的國高中生的上課時數，跟世界許多國家相比，確實是比較長，我們也會緊盯教育部的一個動態，還有他們的一個態度。”

2022年高中生最晚到校改為8:10之前，台灣中學生在早上7點半就要到校，下午5點才放學，上課時數長達9.5小時，位居全球之冠，對比日本、加拿大、澳洲等國家則是9點上學，兩點或三點就下課。

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