Incidents in Kaohsiung Reveal Continued Prevalence of Corporal Punishment

SEVERAL JULY INCIDENTS in Kaohsiung indicate how punitive attitudes toward children remain deeply rooted in Taiwanese society. This particularly proves to be an issue with regard to how educational institutions in Taiwan continue to retain teachers who are willing to violently punish students. In the first incident, a teacher at a private kindergarten in Kaohsiung was found to have behaved...

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