Opinion: How Many Times Must Frontline Teachers Sacrifice Themselves to Prevent the Taichung Female Teacher's Tragedy of Blindness?

Who is the culprit behind the Taichung female teacher's tragedy of blindness? The increasingly severe cases of teachers being injured by students. This news, which occurred in Taichung's Dali District in early August 2026, involved a first-year junior high school student who, dissatisfied with being reminded to return to their seat, broke a broom handle and stabbed it towards the teaching teacher. As a result, the 34-year-old female substitute teacher suffered a torn iris, displaced lens, facial bone fracture, and torn lacrimal duct in her right eye, facing the danger of blindness. The author, who has been a teacher for many years and is familiar with school administrative procedures, can help citizens who are not familiar with school conditions understand the background and details of this unfortunate news. The author must reveal: This is not a simple case of occasional school violence, but a necessary tragedy under Taiwan's long-term 'overemphasis on students' rights and unlimited suppression of teachers' disciplinary rights.' The education authorities have long failed to have frank exchanges with the frontline, yet continue to propose high ideals and policies and management regulations that can only operate in a sterile world. Over the years, countless frontline teachers and groups have repeatedly appealed: When disciplinary rights are stripped away, schools will be forced to take a 'defensive teaching' approach. The frontline has repeatedly warned: If the disciplinary regulations and special education safety net are not reasonably reviewed, teachers will eventually be forced to choose between 'being suspended for complaints' and 'exposed to classroom violence.' This long-accumulated safety crisis has now, in the most cruel way, opened fire with the tragedy of a female teacher nearly losing her sight.