On a hot July day a conference is taking place in the Shihsanhang Museum of Archeology on the banks of the Tanshui River, attended by directors of education from every county and city in Taiwan. Outside the conference hall, teachers 'representatives from all over the land sit quietly in the bright sunlight and protest broken government promises not to reduce the numbers of classes or teachers in primary or junior high schools.
酷熱的七月天，淡水河畔的十三行博物館內正舉行全國各縣市教育局長會議，場外則有來自全國各地的教師會幹部頂著艷陽靜坐，抗議國中小學「不減班、不減師」的政策跳票。