A junior high has each child for only three years — the years they first speak to the world. 國中，只擁有每個孩子三年——而那，正是他們第一次對世界開口的三年。
Appointed August 2024 · 民國 113 年 8 月就任
Principal, Taibao Junior High School, Chiayi County
嘉義縣立太保國民中學 校長
A junior high has each child for only three years. Our task is to make those the years in which a young person first dares to speak to the world — and finds the world answers back. 國中，只擁有每個孩子三年。我們的任務，是讓這三年，成為一個年輕人第一次敢於對世界開口、並且發現世界會回應他的那三年。
To the families of Taibao, and to the friends who find this page from further away — welcome.
Our school stands in an unusual town. Taibao is named after the honorary title of a Qing admiral; it is the seat of the Chiayi County government; the high-speed rail and the Southern Branch of the National Palace Museum both lie within it. Our students do not have to travel far to meet the wider world — it already arrives at their doorstep. What we owe them is the confidence, and the language, to meet it.
That is why English at Taibao is not only a subject on the timetable. It is a student standing up at English Day to tell a story; it is a class welcoming guests from a sister school; it is a teacher, mid-career, going back to study so that mathematics or science can be carried in a second language too. Among the five powers our county names for every child — character, identity, water-safety, health, and English — we hold the last one close.
We will not promise that every child leaves us fluent. We promise something we can keep: that they leave us braver about opening their mouths, prouder of where they come from, and able to say to a visitor, in two languages, “Let me show you my town.”
We measure English by whether a student will say it out loud — to a judge, a guest, a stranger — not only by a test score.
我們衡量英語，看的是學生願不願意把它說出口——對評審、對客人、對陌生人——而不只是看一張考卷的分數。
A child who can introduce their own hometown owns it twice. We teach Taibao — its admiral, its museum, its gateway — in English as well as Chinese.
一個能介紹自己家鄉的孩子，那個地方便兩次屬於他。我們用英文、也用中文，教太保——它的提督、它的博物館、它的門戶。
Our teachers train in bilingual teaching themselves. We will not ask of students what we are unwilling to do as adults: keep learning the second language.
我們的老師自己進修雙語教學。我們不會要求學生去做我們身為大人不願做的事：把第二語言，一直學下去。