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It’s the system of education that the government’s implementing that’s tying up the instructors’ hands in disciplining the students, and as the students misbehaved themselves, violently assaulted the instructors in school, the parents are on the students’ sides, and, the teachers feared getting sued, so they can’t do what they’re supposed to, correcting these misbehaving students, which ultimately leads to the society ending up with adults that don’t follow the rules of the law, because they weren’t taught to, because their mommies and daddies had covered them from when they were minors, and that will cause the societies to turn into, a total, CHAOS!  The chain reaction here…off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The Korean Soap Opera “Teach You a Lesson” Rose to Fame Overnight, but the Realities of the School Campuses in Taiwan, Even More Helpless than What’s Portrayed in the Drama Series

The recently rising in popularity Korean soap opera “Teach You a Lesson” caused widespread discussion.  As an educator on the podium lecturing, I must say with this heaviness of heart that: what’s unsettling wasn’t the fictitious plot, but how the realities of the schools in Taiwan leave the instructors feeling even more helpless, and fear.

I had lectured in the universities before, taught some students who’d left a deep impression in my life, some students swore at every lecture, there were those with almost no emotional control, the students who’d gotten into physical brawls with a fellow classmate.  I’d felt enormous pressures, teaching these kinds of students, but always believed, that as I stand here on the podium, it is up to me, to teach them what is right and what isn’t, I’d demanded them to stop their improper behaviors, to show respect to their fellow classmates, and surely, in this process, there were the complaints, and the defiance, but ultimately, they all started, following my, rules.  And looking back, many years  later, I’d often asked myself: what backed me up, my professionalism in education, or was it, pure, luck?  If I’d encountered more violent students, with more emotional outbursts, could I still get out of the field, unscathed?  The answer is, unlikely.

And because of this, I understood why the Korean soap, “Teach You a Lesson” was so popular now.  What the public resonated to, was not the violence, but the collective anxiety in facing the environment of education of today.  The shocking middle school neck slashing case from a couple of years ago, this tragedy exposed just how the safety nets of the school is, dissolving; the children who followed the rules weren’t protected, with those who challenged the authorities, the rules, becoming more and more, fearless of repercussions.

Based off of statistics from the Department of Education, the number of reports of school violence are on the rise quickly, in 2024, there’d been over 4,000 cases reported, with student-on-student bullying taking up more than eighty-percent of the cases, the bullying in school had now, impacted the educators’ personal safety, we need to stop seeing these disputes as minor disagreements between our, students now.

the soap opera that gained popularity from YouTube

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And still, the incidents of violence in the schools, with the current legislature, and wayward restrictions of education, in the name of protecting human rights, but in reality, it’d, tied and bounded the instructors’ means of disciplining the students when they do something wrong.  A verbal reprimand toward the students may cause the complaints to get filed by the parents’, an act of disciplining the students in class may get recorded, and put online and get publicly tried by the online community, to even, in the digital age, the students using the social media platforms, to gain the supports to, bully the educators who tried teaching them right from wrong, turning the podiums in the lecture halls into the gallows awaiting the execution.

Under the current systems, many of the instructors are resocialized to learn that the more they do, they more they get accused, so they don’t discipline at all, to preserve themselves.  When the instructors on the frontlines are forced to put protecting themselves ahead of education, the real victims are those students who are willing to learn, who followed the rules, the majority.

And what’s worth more attention is, that the problems of the schools, extend way beyond the schools.  The statistics from the National Police Agency showed, that in recent years, the adolescent criminals are involved in the cases of scams and fraud, with the mobs absorbing the minors as pickup delivery, getting them into online gambling, with the culture of illegal substances, violence slowly, seeping into these adolescents’ lives through their cellphones.  At the same time, the parents used “for your own good”, to force their young to swallow the restricted substance (Ritalin), forced their young to take the practice tests endlessly, for the sake of the parents, showing off the good grades.  When the education of the family is reduced to only getting accepted into better schools, and losing the character education, and empathy, the children naturally, won’t be able to have the correct senses of right or wrong in them.

I still believe, that most children are good in their natures.  They just need someone to tell them where the boundaries are, as they grow up.  The biggest crisis of education is never the children making mistakes, but in the adults’ feeling too fearful, to correct the children when they made a mistake.

The Korean soap’s gaining popularly, showed the collective cry of help of the society toward the imbalance of education.  We do not need violent measures to manage the schools, but are in desperate need of our government to reevaluate the rigid laws of education, to offer the school instructors their deserved dignity, and the right to educate, and to discipline the students as fitting, and to set up the systems of interdepartmental support, to sweep the school campuses, in preventing the gangs, the drugs from getting into the schools.

When the podium turned into the frontlines of danger, the educators start fearing the students, the parents sees the educators as enemies, the adults give up setting up the boundaries, what we will be losing, won’t be the right to educate, but an entire generation’s future.  It’s not too late, to patch up the systems.

So, this is education in crisis, and we are in desperate need of a cure, and there’s no easy cure for this, because the respect for the educators is already, lost, with the students, getting into cussing matches with the educators when the educators tell them to behave themselves, and the parents are also, against the educators, and the parents can’t teach their children, which is why they’re outsourcing education to these professional educators, but the systems, the society are tying the hands of the educators, so how can education work?  It can’t!