Many Taiwan teachers beat, abuse students despite ban

Many Taiwanese teachers beat students, force them into stress positions or abuse them.
There is a ban in the island-wide on such punishments, a survey said Thursday.
More than 95 percent of students in junior high school reported witnessing teachers imposing this type of irregular punishment in the classroom, said the survey conducted by the non-profit Humanistic Education Foundation.
About 30 percent of the 1,122 junior high schoolers interviewed by the foundation said they themselves had

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