Thursday, October 22, 2009

Punish Children?

Cram schools are very popular here in Taiwan. Parents will pay a lot of money to invest in their child's education. This cram school is located in Tainan city, which is in the southern of Taiwan. According to this company, they want to train their children to get higher grades, but on the other hand, they did not train them in their studies, they punish them, they hit them. They told them to eat the fire, to walk on the broken glass, and more.

Children will go back home, with pain everywhere. Instead of improving in their education, now, they are afraid of studying. Parents need to spent more money to pay for psychologist.

More then that, this cram school receive a lot of money from parents. One parent paid $300.000 NT dollars (10,000 Us Dollars) for two children every six months.