Anti-Black Box Curriculum Movement

The Ministry of Education building surrounded

The Anti-Black Box Curriculum Movement (Chinese: 反黑箱課綱運動; pinyin: Fǎn Hēixiāng Kègāng Yùndòng) was a Taiwanese student protest, related to the Sunflower Student Movement, against the proposed senior high school curriculum changes. "Black box" is a reference to the students' concerns about the opaqueness of the proposed change. On July 23, 2015, the protesters stormed the Ministry of Education.

The proposed changes to the high school history curriculum included the addition in textbooks of Japanese atrocity in Taiwan, the comfort women controversy, changing the focus on regurgitation and cramming rampant in education system. Also proposed to be removed were mentions of the ever corrupted system and making politicians accountable, and the history and ongoing use of for-hire thugs of Bamboo Union by politicians.^[1]

References

External links

• President Ma’s ‘Black Box’ Problem

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