Music teacher in Taoyuan forces students to repeat slur against former Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chu
Taiwan News
Date: 2019/03/13
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A high school music teacher is being investigated for violating
(Screenshot from video posted by Facebook group 我是中壢人)
administrative neutrality by discussing his political point of view in class and having his students recite insults against the former mayor of Kaohsiung.
A student from a high school in Taoyuan’s Zhongli District took to Facebook yesterday to complain that his music teacher is always talking about politics in class. Yesterday, the student posted a video on the Facebook page iChungli (我是中壢人) showing a music teacher at the school criticizing former Kaohsiung Mayor and current Presidential Office Secretary-General Chen Chu (陳菊) for “5,000 potholes” on the streets of the city.
The student complained that the teacher frequently shouts slogans and forces the students to sing in praise of the Kuomintang (KMT) and belittle the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), saying that the “people who listen to the DPP are idiots.”
In the video, the teacher can be heard making the students chant “5,000 potholes [Kao]hsiung” and “5,000 potholes Chu,” in reference to Chen Chu. During his election campaign for mayor of Kaohsiung, Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) criticized the 5,000 potholes which had surfaced after a heavy deluge last year and implied that they were the result of bad governance. [FULL STORY]
