Over 20 percent of Taiwanese teachers have abused their students 2 or 3 times a month
Taiwan News
Date: 2019/05/03
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
Screenshot of Lee Tung-chun abusing student in 2017.
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A survey by National Sun Yat-sen University has found that over 70 percent of teachers who responded to the questionnaire “physically or emotionally” abused their students in the prior six months.
A survey was conducted late last year by associate professor Chen Li-ming (陳利銘) on 604 teachers in 30 elementary, junior and senior high schools on how they had disciplined their students within the past six months, reported NewTalk. The survey found that 71.7 percent of teachers self-reported that they had treated their students with a kind of physical or emotional abuse at least once within the past six months, according to the report.
Of those that had reporting meting out physical or emotional abuse to their students, 20.4 percent said they had done so two or three times a month.
Chen said that the survey did not find a significant difference between the abuse handed out by male and female teachers. However, the poll did find that elementary school teachers abused their students significantly more than junior and senior high school teachers. [FULL STORY]
