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Aristotle
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 6:40 am Post subject: Taiwan Teachers Please Report Child Abuse! |
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Child abuse hotline launched
The Jing Chuan Child Safety Foundation established an 0800580515 hotline yesterday for the public to report child abuse and other cases that jeopardize the safety of children. Foundation officials said that negligence was responsible for as many as 99 percent of all child injuries last year. As 59 percent of child injuries occurred at home, the officials noted that allowing children to stay home alone can easily lead to accidents. First among the top-10 news stories involving child safety last year compiled by the foundation was the death of a three-year-old boy who was tattooed and tortured by his mother's friend. Other news items on the list included the death of a four-year-old girl who was abused by her drunken father; the death of a five-year-old girl who fell from her apartment when her mother was out; a fire triggered by three children playing with fire while home alone; the beating up of a boy by his father in public and the injury of a two-year-old child by an automatic car window.
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Miyazaki
Joined: 12 Jul 2005
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Location: My Father's Yacht
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| Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 4:57 pm Post subject: |
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I saw a mother start putting the boots to her young daughter once at the bottom of an escalator.
I couldn`t beleive it.
I looked for a police officer, but even then... so what. |
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Xenophobe
Joined: 11 Nov 2003
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| Child abuse is not an issue specific to Taiwan. Unfortunately it is all too common around the world. At home, the rights of the perpetrators seems to outweigh the safety of children. |
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Aristotle
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| Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 7:37 am Post subject: |
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If you don't report the abuse of children in your classes, no one else will!
One of the biggest reasons Native English teachers are banned from teaching Early Childhood on Taiwan is because they will report child abuse regardless of the cultural taboo against doing so.
Here is a hot line run by an Non Government Organization that will act on reports and will not disclose or sell your identity for reporting abuse like the local Taiwanese police.
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clark.w.griswald
Joined: 06 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 11:06 am Post subject: |
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As Xenophobe points out, child abuse is a problem everywhere in the world and I really don't think that Taiwan has a worse reputation than anywhere else in the world.
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| One of the biggest reasons Native English teachers are banned from teaching Early Childhood on Taiwan is because they will report child abuse regardless of the cultural taboo against doing so. |
Yet more misleading posts by Aristotle, that is in fact almost the opposite of the truth.
The reason that foreigners cannot get work permits to teach in kindergartens is that staff who teach in kindies need to have appropriate qualifications with working with small children. This is not unlike the qualifications required back home when considering a career working with little kids.
I believe that it is technically possible for a foreigner to actually receive such accreditation locally, but I assume that the major obstacle to doing so is language as classes would be conducted in Chinese.
So the real reason that foreigners cannot work with little kids here is that we do not have the appropriate accreditation to do so. This seems to be at odds with what Aristotle would try to have us all believe. |
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