FALLING BIRTH RATE IMPACTS PRIVATE HIGH SCHOOLS|少子化衝擊 六年來全台8所私校退場

Tainan City's 52-year-old private Cheng Guang Junior High School will be closed after hosting its last graduation ceremony on Saturday. Ministry of Education statistics show that over the past six years, 8 private high schools have closed down. At Tainan City's 52-year-old private Cheng Guang School's final graduation ceremony on Saturday, only nine students took to the stage. In the audience, there were hundreds, as many alumnae came back to see the school's final day before closure. ==WANG LEE-JUNG Alumnae== I was thinking about how we queued up at the front of the class to be smacked with a rod, all those memories came flooding back, but they are sweet memories. ==HUANG WEN-LUNG Alumnae== Of course, we feel it's a pity, if there was no Cheng Guang, I would never have got an MBA. In its early years, the private school was famous, as the number of places were limited and it was a boarding school, it was hard to get into. However, due to the falling birth rate, two years ago it transferred students to other schools and yesterday saw its fifty-second and final class, graduate. ==WANG BAO-MIN graduating class teacher== Thinking of 52, that number, I thought of a pack of cards, students and alumnae, no matter what suit you belong to, there is always a place for you in society. Alumnae thronged the corridors to welcome the last graduating class and say goodbye to the school. Due to the falling birthrate over the past six years, eight private high schools have closed down including Hualien's Guoguang Vocational and Technical High School, Pingtung's Dongxinju High School, Tainan's Huaji Yongan High School, Chiayi's Datong Commercial High School, and Tainan's Tienren Commercial High School. Two junior colleges including Yongda and Gaofeng have also closed. == HAN CHUN-SHU Sec. Head, MOE K-12 Education Administration== In the 2017 academic year there will be 32,000 fewer high school students, so we encourage schools to develop special characteristics. The MOE estimates that the impact of the falling birthrate will gradually affect high school and junior colleges more extensively and more private schools will close. TRANSLATED BY：CLARE LEAR 現在是畢業的季節，創校52年的台南市私立城光中學，週六舉行畢業典禮，但是，不只學生畢業，學校也要跟著畢業吹熄燈號。不少校友們都回學校，參加這最後一次的畢業典禮。根據教育部統計，6年來全國已經有8所私校退場。 台南市私立城光中學，周六舉行畢業典禮，畢業生代表上台致詞，心中滿是不捨。這一場畢業典禮，只有9位畢業生。不過台下坐滿數百位校友、家長，因為這場畢業典禮的主角不只學生，也包括學校。 ===校友 王儷蓉=== 想到當年我們如何在那個 教室前面排隊被打 種種當年的回憶都出來了 但是那個回憶是甜的 ==校友 黃文隆=== 當然很捨不得 沒有它（城光中學）的話 我沒有辦法讀到MBA 城光中學早期是台南市明星私立國中，住校加上名額有限，想進城光並不容易，不過不敵少子化，兩年前就規劃轉走新生，昨天送走第52屆的畢業生，也要畫下句點。 ===畢業班導師 王保民=== 你知道52我聯想到什麼嗎 我就是聯想到撲克牌 同學不管你是屬於什麼樣的花色 （將來）社會上一定會有你的地位 校友們站在走廊兩旁，歡送最後一屆的畢業學弟妹，也歡送母校跟著畢業。其實受到少子化衝擊，根據教育部統計，短短6年，全國已經有8所私校退場，包括花蓮國光商工、屏東新基高中、台南華汲永安高中、嘉義大同高商、台南天仁工商，五所高中職以及永達、高鳳兩所學院，加上昨天的城光中學共8所。 ====教育部國教署高中職組長 韓春樹=== 今年預計106學年度的學生 （高中職)會少了3.2萬 那3.2萬我們平常也鼓勵學校 他要發展他們自己的特色 教育部估計，未來幾年少子化對高中、大專的招生影響更為嚴重，招生難，未來私校吹熄燈號，恐怕只會多不會少。 綜合報導