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...
The Lizen High School in Taichung has come under fire for punishing public displays of affection among students. Consequently, the school has been criticized by groups such as the Taiwan Youth Association for Democracy on the basis of authoritarian values, such as existed during Taiwan’s authoritarian period...
The Control Yuan issued a report in April, linking issues of violence in schools to the lack of the student representation on school committees. This connects two issues that have been widely reported on as an issue facing Taiwanese schools as of late, that being the lack of representation on school committees of students and issues of corporal punishment facing students...
An ongoing Control Yuan investigation aims to investigate a care facility in Taoyuan linked to the death of a five-year-old child and brain damage to a six-year-old child...
A recent investigation by the Control Yuan, which resulted in the oversight body censuring the Yuan Ming Junior High School and Yunlin County Department of Education, should point to broader issues in Taiwan regarding corporal punishment in schools. The investigation was carried out by Control Yuan members Lai Ting-ming...
Why is beating students allowed in Taiwanese sports training? Few seem to think that this is educational for students and in other contexts, beating a student would lead to criminal charges. But instead, in Taiwan, this is a practice that schools often turn a blind eye to...
