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[Pow3hatan]

One of the biggest difficulties throughout fighting the false allegation of sexual harassment was that practically everything about it was under the direct or covert control of the nursing university's administration. Their "spin machine" was already very well-oiled and good at it's job and from jump they were very busy spinning their story for maximum emotional and dramatic impact.

I've started posting some of the evidence I and my Taiwanese friends gathered on the internet from the start. In particular this evidence uncovered the nursing university's ruse claiming that the accuser was suffering from "weeping, social withdrawal and depression" following the alleged "touch on the waist."

The most recent post is: http://pow3hatan-warrior4justice.blogspot.com/2011/07/lies-lies-lies-battle-begins-against.html

[Shimokitazawa]

[Pow3hatan]

[Shimokitazawa]

[Pow3hatan]

It was my misfortune to cross paths with not just one but a pack of undesirable individuals with total lack of morality or concern for their self-serving pursuit of gratification and/or revenge. The accuser's collaboration with the nursing university administrators made for the "perfect crime" against me...but the perpetrators never anticipated my resolve nor the resolve of my close friends to expose their ruse.

With no evidence to support her allegation, the accuser and the nursing university started very quickly to use the "emotional" and "sympathy" cards to try and bolster the false accusation. Starting with the first meeting with the so-called investigation committee, the participants in this fraud played it up by claiming that the accuser immediately began suffering "depression, social withdrawal and weeping" after the alleged "touch on her waist."

As it happened to me, so too could it happen to anyone else. Read on and take warning so that you don't end up another victim of this kind of ruse: http://pow3hatan-warrior4justice.blogspot.com/2011/07/another-early-hero-helps-uncover-more.html

[Pow3hatan]

One of the most outstanding examples of the nursing university's sexual harassment ruse was the misnamed Gender Equity in Education Committee.

The committee, handpicked by the nursing university president, reeked of cronyism, manipulation and undue influence throughout the entire investigation and subsequent decision

All aspects of the investigation, gender equity meetings, decision and appeal were under either the direct or covert control of the administrators colluding with the accuser on her false allegation.

You can see the bias, manipulation and coercive tactics of the Gender Equity in Education Committee interrogators at http://pow3hatan-warrior4justice.blogspot.com/2011/08/very-close-look-at-nursing-universitys.html Transcripts of the 6/28/07 meeting with them are there.

[Shimokitazawa]

[Pow3hatan]

Yes, you're very right Shimokitazawa. It's been going on for millenia in this region of the world and it definitely appears to be on the rise on the island after some irregular years of declining.

What happened to me is but one of many cases of employment, administrative and judicial abuse that persist. What I've been sharing through my experience is a microcosm of the much wider and larger problems that exist in education, relations between Taiwanese employers and foreign employees, government and the judiciary in Taiwan.

You can see how easily and conveniently witnesses and evidence disappear, due process is manipulated and justice obstructed here: http://pow3hatan-warrior4justice.blogspot.com/2011/08/its-magic-nursing-university-sleight-of.html

[Pow3hatan]

So...you wanna know to what disturbing and inappropriate lengths some university students (and school administrators or teaching colleagues) will go to try and have a targeted teacher removed?

You can see it here: http://pow3hatan-warrior4justice.blogspot.com/2011/08/pre-accusation-efforts-to-scuttle-my.html

[Pow3hatan]

This is what happens in Taiwan when workers in critical professions are set loose in the real world with insufficient English skills:

http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/etn/news_content.php?id=1692006&mbn=93E1D5432EED47FFA21D05996FD638BB

The story reminds me of a conversation I had with the mother of a private student who was a nurse in one of the more well-known hospitals in Taipei. When I told her I was teaching at the nursing university and shared some of my views of the students' English ability, she confided in me that her department didn't like using the school's students as interns or employing them.

She explained that they tended to be lazy and indifferent to their work AND...their English skills were generally poor. She added that even one or more of the nurses from the nursing university had made mistakes in treating patients or administering dosages of medicine because they misunderstood instructions in English.

In my blog post The First Response...continued - http://pow3hatan-warrior4justice.blogspot.com/2011/08/first-responsecontinued.html
- I touch on this topic of the school's lack of adequate schooling in English and nursing students' lack of interest in, even dislike for, learning English.

I should add that I am not saying or implying that the recent organ transplant incident has anything to do with any graduate of the nursing university. I am merely highlighting this story as an example of what can happen when students are not properly prepared in English for work that requires them to perform critical tasks using English.

[romanworld]

[Shimokitazawa]

[romanworld]

[Pow3hatan]

Very good points in both your two most recent posts Romanworld.

In my experience teaching English in Taiwan, from elementary school to university, schools treat language learning as just another subject to usher students through with rote memorization, multiple-choice tests and teaching the second language using Chinese. Comprehension of and communicative ability in English or any other second language are a distant afterthought.

How on earth can learners become even minimally competent in using English when they're taught almost entirely in Chinese throughout their schooling?!

It reminds me of some of my Taiwanese classmates when I was studying for my master's in TESOL in the U.S.. One day we were talking about the usefulness and application of what they were learning. They all said that once they returned to Taiwan most of what they had been taught about communicative language teaching, student-centered learning, etc would be useless and they would be teaching their students using the same ineffective, typical Taiwanese methods. They added that the only reason they spent all that money and time to study for the degree was to get the title of M.A. so they could get a better-paying, more prestigious position in Taiwan.

To show you how serious the Taiwanese government takes the organ transplant debacle and getting at the root causes of the problem and solving them, take a look at the recent editiorial Making a Profession Out of Negligence - http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2011/09/08/2003512719

It also mentions another frightening case where four doctors at Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital scrambled for protective masks for themselves during an emergency situation "while they allowed a pregnant anesthesiologist to be exposed to the patient�s blood before informing her that the patient had HIV."

[Pow3hatan]

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