Central News Agency (CNA reporter Chen Chih-chung, Taipei, June 30) The issue of excessive lawsuits in schools has drawn attention. Representatives from teacher, principal, and parent groups met with Minister of Education Cheng Ying-yao today, hoping to review the "school affairs meeting" system and restore campuses to an educational environment of trust and cooperation. The National Federation of Teachers' Unions (NFTU) issued a press release this evening stating that its president, Yeh Ching-chi, along with representatives from the Association of Junior and Senior High School Principals and national parent groups, met with Cheng Ying-yao to exchange views on education policy. Yeh Ching-chi pointed out that in recent years, the educational field has faced multiple challenges, including declining birth rates, increasingly complex student emotional and behavioral issues, continuously increasing teacher workload, and rising pressure in parent-teacher communication. He specifically noted that the controversies surrounding the school affairs meeting system in recent years have highlighted a severe test of the trust relationship in the educational field. Yeh Ching-chi stated that representatives from various groups today focused on adjustments to the school affairs meeting and related systems. While student rights protection is undoubtedly important, if the system design overemphasizes investigation and accountability while neglecting educational guidance, communication and repair, and professional judgment, problems that could have been resolved through parent-teacher cooperation will gradually move towards confrontation. This could lead to phenomena such as teachers adopting defensive teaching practices, parents and schools distrusting each other, and principals being exhausted from handling disputes. Yeh Ching-chi said that representatives from various groups hope the Ministry of Education will broadly collect practical experience from frontline teachers, parents, and