On October 16th, Sichuan Province was announcedThe investigation into the “Stigma Photo” incident at the Repo District Education Executive Council concluded that the main head of the county government had been warned by the party and transferred from the post of district governor and the head of the district education and sports department had been transferred from the education system. That photo did not disappear two months ago: at the county education conference on 26 August, a group of teachers stood in white shirts, with the visible word “sham” on their backs, sitting under the leadership and school administrators at all levels.

The official report clearly restored the circumstances of the decision. The local education administration is held every semester, and the participants in previous years were mainly leaders and principals. For the first time this year, teachers in the lower-average section of the final examination were included in the conference because of the organization of the results of the teaching. The agenda is closed.Interim proposal by the principals of the county governmentThe director, teacher and headmaster are invited to take a photo. The district leaders then set the “stigmatization” context on the grounds of “dignity and courage”.

The so-called “provisional proposal” is precisely the most important institutional detail of the whole matter. Regular education evaluation requires an understanding of the basics of the class, the teaching resources, the difficulty of the subject and the conditions of the school; The Chief District Officer will be able to immediately turn the education issue into an open humiliation if he or she makes a single statement at the meeting. While the participants in the photo were leaders, they were really marked by teachers with lower grade levels in the classes. Who proposes the arrangement, who makes the background, whether there are objections on the ground and how it will eventually be implemented is a chain of administrative orders that can be traced, rather than a mere “meeting failure”.

2026年8月26日雷波县教育行政会议初中低分教师合影,来源:澎湃新闻/央视网,与封面为不同学段现场影像
2026年8月26日雷波县教育行政会议初中低分教师合影,来源:澎湃新闻/央视网,与封面为不同学段现场影像 · 查看图片来源 ↗

The photo also contains another specific message:The average achievement of a group of junior high school teachers in their classes was below 15 pointsThe primary school group is below 30 points. The number of pupils who do not have basic knowledge is reflected in the scores, whether they are related to the language of the teaching materials, the distribution of teachers and the conditions under which schools are run, and the need for specific educational data; These figures cannot be directly used as a criterion for the personal integrity or professional dignity of teachers. Rebo District is a mountainous district with a long-term mandate to fight poverty and to rejuvenate the countryside, and even less the imbalance in educational resources can be solved by writing two words on the screen.

Independent mediamen are chasing the new man on October 16th.The name and curriculum vitae of the District Governor Zheng Hongbo. Online criticism thus moved from “an inappropriate act” to “who decides to subject teachers to such treatment”. The official initiative to revise the teacher evaluation mechanism and to protect the rights and interests of teachers was subsequently introduced; But it is not only about the notification of punishment that will make society truly aware of change, but also about whether the future teacher conference will still be ranked by the executive for the examination and who will be publicly disciplined.

The teacher who was called to the stage that day was still going to walk into the classroom and face the students after leaving the meeting. The position of district governor can be adjusted, and the fear of the leader and the shame of colleagues by the teacher cannot be automatically eliminated by a single intra-party sanction. This photo leaves a record that is not easily erased from the power of the county to write the quality of education in the report: the more smooth the executive order is implemented, the more it becomes necessary to ask how it has crossed the line of human dignity.

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