Safe Home from Work Today: A Taiwanese AI Game About Teachers Under the School Affairs Meeting
"Make it home safe from work today." For a teacher, that line sounds a little funny and a little heavy at the same time.
Today's Taiwanese AI project is called Safe Home from Work Today (今天也要平安下班). Its creator, 辛巴王, shared it in the Claude Taiwan community. It turns a teacher's day into a school game, running from morning study period through classes and lunch to dismissal and clocking out.
Home screen of the game. Screenshot, 2026-10-09.
Players drag the screen to reach the next location. The guard room, the principal's office and the playground are all on the map, and the first goal of the morning is to get to your own classroom.
The school map, with the day's schedule and current task. Screenshot, 2026-10-09.
In another scene, the teacher opens a sign-up during break and treats students to drinks. What follows is a large red banner reading "校事會議" (school affairs meeting, a Taiwan school-level committee that handles complaints about teachers). The game ties an ordinary campus moment to the pressure of being reported.
The game shows the pressure of being reported through a red "school affairs meeting" notice. Credit: 辛巴王 (Sinba Wang), Safe Home from Work Today, 2026-10-09.
Why has the school affairs meeting drawn pushback from teachers?
The game is built on a real issue in Taiwan's schools. The school affairs meeting is the mechanism that handles cases where teachers are reported. In recent years, some teacher groups have called for abolishing it or reforming it heavily. Their worry is that ordinary disputes over teaching, discipline and parent-teacher communication can turn into formal investigations, bringing long procedures, psychological strain, and defensive teaching: do less, so you're less likely to be complained about. The National Federation of Teachers' Unions (全教總) also argues for a mechanism to handle malicious or repeated complaints, so teachers get professional support. Statement from the federation
We think the biggest problem is that the system starts from distrust of teachers' professionalism. In the criticism from teacher groups, the investigation process leaves teachers feeling presumed at fault and then left to prove their innocence. When a school investigation touches a teacher's right to work, the consequences go far beyond an internal meeting.
Does the pressure disappear once anonymous reports are banned?
Anonymous reporting has long been one of the points of doubt. Even with a rule that anonymous reports are no longer accepted, it still needs to be made clear how complaint channels such as the 1999 hotline and mayor's mailboxes connect to school investigations. A lawyer's practical explanation (律師實務說明) mentions a teacher who received notice of a school affairs meeting interview triggered by a 1999 report. That doesn't mean every anonymous complaint becomes a case, but it shows that changing the word "anonymous" alone doesn't solve teachers' problems. Lawyer's practical explanation
Gender-related incidents, bullying, corporal punishment and other serious violations already have their own laws and procedures. The question is this: when ordinary disputes over teaching, discipline and parent-teacher communication also get pulled into formal investigations, what necessary gap is the school affairs meeting filling? Different kinds of cases have their own scope and may connect with each other, but that shouldn't justify making big cases out of small ones or investigating repeatedly.
When every word and action of a teacher is put under a microscope, the school affairs meeting can become a disaster zone in education, and even help bad practice drive out good.
When teachers spend their energy avoiding complaints instead of teaching, the system may push out the very teachers who are willing to take responsibility and discipline seriously.
The issue is still changing. On October 7, 2026, the Ministry of Education announced amendments: cases that are clearly reasonable discipline, or not punishable by law, are to be closed, and the conditions for bringing in external investigators for general performance cases are narrowed. Ministry of Education announcement
PTS interview: what's next for the school affairs meeting?
Taiwan's Public Television Service (公視) program Independent Reporter (《獨立特派員》) went into schools to follow the disputes over school affairs meeting investigations and the debate over whether to keep the system. Hearing from interviewees gives the pressure in the game a more concrete face.
Video source: PTS Independent Reporter, episode 969, aired September 9, 2026. Original PTS video page
Check out the original
- Safe Home from Work Today (the game)
- Creator 辛巴王
- Creator's post in Claude Taiwan
By Yi-Wen Gu, 大衛AI小學堂 (David AI School). 中文原文：台灣尚青｜辛巴王《今天也要平安下班》：看見校事會議下的教師心聲
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