Escalating to the highest is pointless. It may also put you on their shit list.
And you have experience of this?
No itās common sense you talk to the person first, if thatās getting you nowhere then you talk to their boss, but itās bad manner to go over peopleās head.
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By the way, the Asian education system focuses on discipline rather than encouragement and praise, and calling someone a āforeignerā is not considered offensive here. In the minds of most Taiwanese people, the teacher isnāt doing anything wrong. I didnāt think this needed to be said, but apparently it does (based on some comments Iām seeing here).
Just have your friends talk to the teacher first, and let them know that calling a student āforeignerā is inappropriate.
In this case, deserved
If it was worth talking to the teacher in the first place, this thread wouldnāt exist
Iām reminded of the debate of certified vs. uncertified teachers. Presumably this teacher is ācertifiedāā¦
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You think itās offensive to be called foreigner, but it isnāt meant to be offensive. They donāt play this woke sjw game here.
The kid getting no praise and admonishment for little mistakes is just sop in Taiwan. He isnāt getting any worse treatment.
Iām saying this because thatās how I get treated and Iām not a foreigner.
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Thatās a good point. Woke is purely a North American and Western European construct.
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Itās in his classroom by his homeroom teacher not random people in the street. Stop changing thecsubject this post is about a child not about you. Would you mind your teacher calling you a butt bandit ?
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If the way the kid got treated is a problem, he can go and change his homeroom teacher. I guarantee you it wonāt be any different. Either suck it up and deal with it, or go to an international school. This is the way in Taiwan.
Iām saying heās getting no special treatment at all.
Itās a lot more than that.
Iāve been called far worse.
Wait til he does his mandatory military service.
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Fortunately @Leggat has been here long enough to have an opinion of how useful the advice from this poster tends to be.
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Telling other children that their Chinese should be better because this child is foreign, purposefully singling them out for the color of their skin, is racist no matter what culture you come from.
That is not standard treatment since other children would not be ridiculed for their race.
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This is standard treatment for biracial and foreign children in local schools. Iām biracial and attended local schools. Did you?
As for the āridiculingā, many teachers in Asia do it even when the student is not a foreigner.
āYouāre more intelligent than (so-and-so), so why arenāt your grades as high? You need to work harder like him!ā
āYouāve got longer legs than that shorty, so why canāt you run as fast as him? You need to try harder!ā
āBoth your parents are Taiwanese, so why arenāt your grades as high as the foreigner (who presumably speaks less Chinese at home)? You need to work harder like her!ā
BTW Iām not saying any of this is okay, but many people here donāt consider it wrong. As I already said above, the OPās friends just need to educate the teacher about racism and kindly ask them to stop.
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The fatherās a man.
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I agree, tell the teacher. Donāt go over his head. Nobody likes this and if the teacher didnāt know, he needs to. But just going to the ministry of education? Yea the school principal isnāt going to like you after this.
A friendās kid was constantly mentioned in class by his teacher. For some reason she would often say to the other kidsā¦āYou better be careful because xxxās father is a lawyer. He will cause trouble for your family.ā According to our friend the teacher always was calling out his kid over every small thing. The kid was 9 years old and was a nervous wreck in the class. Very sad every day and getting worse. Parents talked to the teacher. She ignored them. Parents talked to the principal who talked to the teacher. Teacher did not change but seems to become more aggressive against the kid. They finally took the kid to another school where the kid became happy again. (As a sad sidenoteā¦within two years of moving to new school the kidās mother died. The kid has had it rough lately.)
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Then the teacher won.
If its kid on kid, the kid should deal with it. If its a teacher who has the stones to act up like this then the parents need to have a word, I would also agree that going to his higher ups makes a lot more sense than trying to reason with someone who is obviously a prick.
Evidence is nice too but I donāt know if wiring your kid mafia style is acceptable or whatā¦
Man though, Taiwanese ba ba? Fucking grow a pair already.
I also think it wouldnāt hurt to teach the kid to correct the teacher and say something like āplease donāt call me a wai guo ren i am a mixed Taiwaneseā
When I was in school I constantly had to correct teachers who mis-read my name. Some of them were even shitty about it, sometimes you just gotta put these guys in their place even if you are like 10 yrs old.
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Rick Rooney seems pretty easy to pronounce.
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