The junior high schools in Taiwan Province Province are all local schools, and only the middle part of the national complete middle school is a national school. Administratively, local ethnic middle schools and state schools are under the jurisdiction of the local government education bureau and the Ministry of Education respectively. Their teachers are civil servants in the Criminal Law, but they are not within the scope defined in Article 24 of the Civil Service Law, because teachers have their own appointment and salary system. Junior high school teachers can organize teachers' trade unions or trade associations according to law, safeguard their professional dignity, and fight for their own rights and interests on behalf of their members at all levels. Similarly, parents and school principals can also form interest or professional groups to cooperate or check with teachers' groups and speak on education issues.
After completing their studies, junior high school students can freely choose to join the workplace or continue their studies. In the workplace, the Labor Committee of the Executive Yuan prohibits employers from hiring children or adolescents under the age of 15, except those who have graduated from junior high school. Workers who graduated from junior high school to the age of 16 belong to the definition of child labor in the Labor Standards Law and are protected by laws and regulations. They are not allowed to work overtime or engage in some dangerous jobs. In terms of further education, junior high school students can decide whether to go to senior high school, higher vocational school or five specialized schools according to their own free will after obtaining the basic examination results. Except high school is secondary education, the rest belong to technical and vocational education.