The China Post
Date: September 26, 2016
By: Sun Hsin Hsuan
TAIPEI, Taiwan — “So, are the students fitting in alright?”
Smoke billowing from the Sixth Naphtha Refinery is seen from Ciaotou Elementary School’s Syucuo branch in Yunlin County on Thursday. (Sun Hsin Hsuan, The China Post)
The question didn’t sit well with the director of the Yunlin County school from which the students had recently been transferred — and not for the first time.
“What do you mean ‘are they fitting in alright?’ Do you think they have a choice, even if they aren’t? What’s the point in asking then?” he said with a stiff frown as he stared into the distance.
One Transfer after Another
At the center of this years-long dispute are the students from Ciaotou Elementary School’s Syucuo branch, who were relocated to the elementary school’s main campus on Sept. 5 for the fall term.
The Syucuo branch is located less than 1 kilometer from the Sixth Naphtha Refinery, Formosa Plastics Group’s largest petrochemical complex, while the main campus is 5.5 kilometers away. [FULL STORY]
