Recent Incidents Highlight Continued Issues with Corporal Punishment in Taiwan

TWO RECENT INCIDENTS highlight how corporal punishment and bullying, sometimes from teachers themselves, continues to be an issue in Taiwan. The first incident involves 100 fifth-graders being forced to kneel for a minute while a teacher cursed them out during a graduation camp event in Kaohsiung. This took place because the students were noisy in the morning. The school has vowed to investigate...

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