Two cram schools have announced the termination of a male teacher’s contract after he reposted a discriminatory comment about women who attend social movements.
Tens of thousands of people gathered outside the Legislative Yuan on Tuesday and Friday calling for the withdrawal of controversial legislative reform bills proposed by opposition parties.
The mass protests have attracted significant media attention, and social media posts about the legislative issues and protests have been widely share.
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A teacher at a cram school, surnamed Wu (吳), was found to have reposted a discriminatory comment on women who attend social movements.
The anonymous post said that “gals that attend social movements are easy to lay” and “just mention phrases like context, framework, and democracy, and accompany them to some independent music festival … pretend to be very knowledgeable, and they will be easily laid.”
“Just use women, and don’t consider too much,” the post added, and Wu shared a screengrab of the post to Instagram, with his own remark: “This is true, and this is why we love to go to student activist movements.”
After Wu’s repost sparked an outcry among the protesters and supporters, cram school This Social on Friday evening said on Facebook that it has terminated its contract with Wu, and apologized to the public, promising to strengthen its review of their teachers’ ethics.
Another cram school, Topedia Urocissa, yesterday also posted on its Facebook that it has canceled all cooperation with Wu indefinitely, as “gender and safety is what we care about the most,” and that it would revise its guidelines for teachers and check candidates’ background more carefully before recruiting them to ensure students’ safety.
Deputy Minister of Health and Welfare Lin Ching-yi (林靜儀) yesterday said although the education facilities fired the teacher, some parents are still worried, so the educational facilities should carefully recruit employees and offer preservice gender equity education.
She also said that if a person is under employment and perpetrates offensive behavior toward a student at the education facility, the facility would share joint liability according to the three laws concerning gender equity.
Separately, Some people on social media have reportedly hinted at doxing the son of Taiwan People’s Party caucus whip Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌), a proponent of legislative reform.
The Ministry of Health and Welfare yesterday said doxing a child and publishing the child’s personal information would violate the Personal Data Protection Act (個人資料保護法) and Convention on the Rights of the Child, so people should not do it.
The ministry said doxing a child is a “very inappropriate behavior,” and that adults’ issues should be dealt with among adults, and not involve children.
Additional reporting by Lin chi-yi
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