Yes. Since China doesn’t operate on common sense and common courtesy, having these traits keeps the society together and forges a common non-Chinese identity.
Actually found friends who are entrepreneurs and programmers and put my daughter there instead.
You’d put your kids in the Confucius institute to learn mandarin I bet.
Y’all are teachers but the purpose of school is to prepare kids to be the workers of tomorrow….not the activists of the 20th century
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Xinjiang education camps have the best work ethic and none of the western political wokeness! /s
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The purpose of school is to prepare kids to find a career suitable for them on their own, whatever career it maybe.
I should have finished reading what you wrote. Nothing else is needed after that post. It would have saved me from looking even more pedantic.
You do you. Imma influence my kids to focus on earning a solid income, becoming financially free and stop needing to work - but that’s me.
I think teaching tolerance, compassion, and caring for the well being of future generations in school is just hoping that some of these values will be taken to heart by some of the students. Most likely people will still grow up to do things that benefit them in the shortest amount of the time. However, as long as people feel like these values are worthy to be taught in schools, there’s a chance for change very slowly, which I think is what democracy is all about.
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I already speak it just fine, unlike some.
And what do you think your kid should focus on to achieve that in the coming age of AI?
Again yes I agree with you but not at the cost of pragmatism. A schools job is to help kids get a job…not be a woke activist for 20th century causes.
Enough with the indoctrination at the guise of goodwill.
being a compassionate person is something you learn from your family or cohesive society…two things taiwan is losing out on.
Are parents even being told that their kids are being brought up to value immigrant cultures above their own? Or to focus on Western ideals (greenhouse gas) that both make no sense in taiwan and are controversial?
Which is, of course, the main purpose of girls who code. The program you didn’t want your daughter in.
No offense - but have you not seen this? I’ll post it again
Where does it say: we prepare girls to become programmers? Tell you what; go to their website and see if you can find something that says that their job is purely to teach girls programming.
Oh and if you go to their jobs page you’ll see that they hire women AND non-binary. So I’d have a transgender male teaching my girl too…screw that
I’ll give you some credit because you did help our military.
And again I initially was gonna sign her up until I did some digging around. Forgive me having been a protective parent.
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What gender gap in tech do you think they’re referring to? A lack of female janitors?
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The right in the 2020s has come down squarely on the side of anti-knowledge (cutting cancer funding, stopping stats from being released or even compiled, attacking universities, etc), so this part is at least consistent.
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They just copy
They just copy the US but about ten years before , so they’ll probably be unwoke and copying Trump in a few years. I’ve heard people asking who will be the “Taiwan Trump.”. When values change with trends bad things happen.
Terry Guo did have a run at it. Thankfully the people of Taiwan—who are quite familiar with rich egomaniac bosses—could look at that as a presidential option and say “no thank you.”
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Only an ignorant gobshite would complain about teaching about global warming and local people’s culture in school.
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Sounds like a chance for a critical thinking moment.
I was learning about global warming, the ozone hole and local culture in school in the 80s and this dude calls it woke, what an ejjit.
Home schooled up the wazoo or what ? 
Kids in 4th grade are supposed to analyse and fix the shitty labour system in Taiwan ? 
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The “girl who code” part?
Anyway, it’s irrelevant. The entities that will be doing the majority of coding in the future are decidedly agender.
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