What’s your take on this story? Do you agree with the teachers union on this?
Teachers are really unsung heroes…
It’s a sad story that’s blowing up the internet in Kaohsiung and Taiwan.
Yes, quite sad. teacher is not a good job anymore
hire more foreigners!!!
And what difference would that make, if a student does not respect teachers
It makes even
None at all.Taiwan was a society that respected teachers and that needs to return first.
Maybe not return to Taiwan, this respect for teaching.
Changed a lot !
Once the local teacher was called Laoshi by everybody and pretty much venerated. Gone too much in the other direction.
Many teachers in the West are accustomed to being disrespected… hire teachers who previously worked in challenging schools in their home countries. Not necessarily those that worked in the best schools.
There are kids in Australian schools that would make some of these bad Taiwanese kids and parents look like angels.
https://www.latrobe.edu.au/news/articles/2019/opinion/teacher-bullying-taking-a-toll
We conducted a survey of 560 teachers across Australia in 2018. In the month-long social media campaign, 80% of respondents recorded having been a victim of some form of student or parent bullying and harassment over the previous 9 to 12 months.
Make Teaching Great Again
I didn’t make it through the video but was told that student’s parents were involved in the Kaohsiung case.
Yes, after a couple of years seeing what goes on in American schools, it only confirmed that I never want to choose that as a viable career path. The dread of going in every day to face that environment would send me to an early grave. I don’t see how teachers in the U.S. have any time to get any actual teaching done as so much time is wasted on discipline issues. And teachers are hamstrung having to tiptoe around problem students because of angry parents and American lawsuit culture.
Teachers are human too and subject to pressure and depression/ inability to handle the situation.
Maybe, but they will have no local support system, family, friends. Bullying here is less violence and more mental.
It is both forms in Australia too. 80% experience student or parent bullying. Doubt the figures are that high here.
This is why I couldn’t teach in a public school, expat or not there are too many idiot dads (and moms) and I don’t know how long I could go before pointing out the problem with the kids is the parents
It feels like everybody acknowledges that this is a problem, but meibanfa, nobody has any solution except for complaining about it. My impression from working at my crappy Taiwanese public school is that the low-end schools here are as bad as America’s. I’ve seen kids do nothing but sit on their phones, literally sit on another’s shoulders while the living seat is on a seat himself, and grab each other’s butts in a game that I can only assume has homoerotic undertones. At least, in the USA, you can confiscate an unruly student’s phone and send him to the office for playing grab-ass with his best friend.
Oh no, you cannot. Do not touch their property.
Many of them will put up a fight about it (backed up by parents), but I think the USA is making progress on it. Something like 35 states have banned cellphones in classrooms. I worked at a shitty Title I school before coming to Taiwan and had way more power there than here. Having real vacation time and more civil coworkers was nice too, but I digress.