The Post-Pandemic Rise of Children Who Witnessed Violence at Home

The Post-Pandemic Rise of Children Who Witnessed Violence at Home

A trend, that’s NOWHERE N-E-A-R, good here, and yet, this is a vicious cycle, with the systems of counseling not set up functionally enough, and everything goes bust underneath, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

Most of the Children Who Were Witnesses to Domestic Violence Usually Sent into Counseling at School, the Trials Can’t Catch up to the Cases that are Occurring, the Children Who Were Traumatizes are Falling Through the Holes

There’s a huge increase of violence at home globally during the pandemic, based off of the statistics reported by the Department of Health Welfare & Sanitations, even in the post-pandemic times, there’s still a continual hike in the number of cases of domestic violence reports, the “witnessing children” of these violence, on the rise also, it’s just, that as the number of witnesses steadily gets higher, the cases of counseling these children who witnessed the abuse continued at the steady rate of around 1,500 cases per year, and the schools which are the direct agencies relating to the children witnessing, have NO follow-up means, and the children who were abused, are falling through the, cracks.

Based off of estimates, the adult cases being reported back in 2019 was 26,258, to 2023, it’d gone up to 35,793, an increase of over 9,500 cases, and the cases overseen by social workers was around 1,500 on average, the highest was in 2021, with 1,674, most of the cases were counseled by the adult protection agency’s social workers themselves, with the average of over 8,300 individuals getting counseled, the remaining over 15,000 were referred to the educational resources.

Du, the C.E.O. of Women Rescue Foundation stated, that the cases that were offered the assistance were mostly the children who live in the violent environments, the children who only witnessed the violence at home, are mostly counseled by the local organizations’ social workers, but, the social workers of the private sectors, have less resources available compared to the public agencies, and can’t provide enough help to those in need.

The legislator, Lin stated, that currently, the Department of Health and Social Welfare handed the children of seven and older who’d witnessed violence at home to the individual educational departments, but how to practically offer the care and concern, it’d lacked the management means, for instance, should it be the school instructors or the school counselors, there should be the rules set up clearly, “otherwise, both would believed, that each had done it, but in reality, nobody does a thing.”

Du told, that in counseling the children who lives in the environment of domestic violence, mostly, the children’s cases are being handled by the adult protection social workers, but, these workers needed to sort through the matters of the parents’ domestic violence already, and had to take care of the minors’ cares, it’s not practical, and the degree of help offered is also, limited.  She also mentioned, if the children who witnessed the violence weren’t counseled by the children protection services’ social workers, they’re counseled by the school, and there would be the window of no help offered during the winter and summer vacation months.

And so, this IS, the lacking in the, systems, because the social workers are asked to carry everything, they’re not only in charge of getting the adults who are caught in the domestic violence interactions directly, they also have to, oversee that the children from these families are, receiving the needed care, counseling, and the trials to hear these cases are still not, coming, fast enough, and so, naturally, children fall through the, cracks here.

The systems need to be reset, reordered, reconstructed, to work better, but we lacked the personnel, the funding, and so, children will still die off, really, fast…

Are the Students DUMBER, or Did the Instructors Get, More Intelligent?

How the students are, smart, and it’s still not calculated by the grades they made in school, the theory, combined with the applications here, and the courses needed to, catch up to the times too!  Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

My friend LINED me the article of the “Lain-Flats”, expressing his disappointment of the younger generations, this was similar to the worries over the “strawberries” from awhile, ago.  I was, doubtful of, these sorts of, stereotypes, I’d bumped into a young school instructor, and his observation, is worth, considering.

He’d told me, that he read a document from more than twenty years ago, on the notes of the school instructors, discussing the goings-on in their classroom in time, and, there were, the expressions of “students’ levels are declining by the year”, at the time, everybody is worried, that the students are not going to be as studious or hardworking as they used to be.  Come back to now, he’d, heard similar expressions from his coworkers too, it’s like, the younger generations are, sinking down into the abyss deeper, and deeper, quicker and quicker by the year too, the adults are all, worried.  But he’d not believed that this was son, and posed an example.

The instructor teaches “linear algebra” in the university level, this is a basic math course.  His evaluation of his students is, that on the skills front, the students fared worse than before, but, they are quite, active, enthusiastic of their own, learning.  He is a hardworking professor, other than focusing on teaching, he’d, become the T.A. for his classes too, and, set up a whole day, where he just, answered the questions the students have for his, courses, he’d hoped, that through the personal interactions he’d shared with the students, he can help them resolve  the problems that they’re, having in his class.  Some of his students weren’t from the science, engineering majors, with a diverse level of skill set, and although, they posed similar questions, but, there were, the items that they couldn’t quite understand, and he’d, personalized his responses to the students individually, helping them to understand the problems they may have.

He’d summed up, that he didn’t know how to define “the level of understanding of his students”, and, shouldn’t the drive to learn be included in the assessments?  He has student who’s not an engineering or math major, toward students like this one, he’d believed, that he only needed to have the basic levels of understanding in courses like the one he’s teaching, there’s no need to go into depth.  But the student told him, that if he wanted to understand A.I., then, linear algebra would be the prerequisite.  Later, as this particular student is working in his graduate studies, once he’d come to have a chat, thanked him for teaching him the drive to find the proofs of things, that it’d helped him later on in his, studies.  I was, deeply moved by how hard he’d, worked with his students, everything that the professor has to offer, the students can, feel it, whether or not the students tell you, it’s, a successful, passing of the, torch.

In my decades’ worth of teaching, I’d often heard the worries of my friends, of how the students’ level of understanding is, dropping down lower.  I’d always told them, it’s not that they’re, dropping in their level of understanding, it’s the “professors who’d gotten, smarter”.  When someone teaches a course for a whole decade, s/he would become, completely familiar with the topics, and, would easily misjudge the materials for being, too, simple, and, would misjudge that the students are becoming, dumber.  I would suggested these professors, to do the courses experimentally, to take a non-math subject course with their students together, then, they will, gain a, different understanding.

If the instructors can’t choose their students, then, they would have the obligations to know the students well.  To help the students get ready to learn the subjects, to move forward a little, then, the professor had, succeeded.

So, this is on the values of knowledge acquisition, the students aren’t getting smarter, the professors aren’t getting, dumber, or vice versa.  It’s all due to the differences of generations, like how the kids these days, they’re, agile with the A.I. technologies, with the older generations using the computing methods by hand or their own minds, and, it’s not that which way is better than the other, they’re both with the pros and the, cons, and, as educators, you must, know, that there’s no smarter or dumber of your students, but in how they learn, and, because a student can’t understand the material in a certain subject area, that doesn’t mean that the student can’t perform outstandingly in another subject.  Everybody has something s/he is, good at, it’s just if you’re willing to take the time, to discover what someone is, good at that will, make the, greatest, difference.

The Laws Against Child Abuse Not Effective Enough, How Many of the Cases Got, Buried

The application, the implementations of these, child abuse prevention laws are still, NOT as easy as, theorized here!  Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

A home-based nanny, Wang in Kaohsiung was suspecting of abusing a five-months-old infant boy to cranial fracture, and the infant is still in the neonatal I.C.U. in that tug-of-war with, death to date.  There’s also a case of a young infant under the age of one, at an all-day daycare nursery, who was found to have been abused and sustained subdural hematoma.  The three-months-old infant, Kai-Kai being abused to death shocked the society, before this case settled, there’d been multiple cases coming on.  Although the legislature and the law committee passed the increased penalties for the abuse of young children yesterday, but the laws in relating to this, only works in theory, how many cases of infant or child abuse are there in the society, currently, covered up?

For instance, the Social Services Home agencies hosted a discussion on using the surveillance at the nurseries, forcing the nurseries to comply, but there’s no mention of the abuse prevention of the homebased nannies.

And so, this just showed, how the theories of the government’s implementing the policy of forcing the nursing centers to install the surveillance cameras to ensure the safety of these babies work so very well, but NOT in the application phase, as there’s the debates of how the surveilling would be an invasion of privacy of the workers, and the laws to have a stricter background check for these, caretakers of young children still don’t come, fast enough, besides, some people are really excellent, in masking themselves up, they paint themselves as caring, loving, caretakers, when in reality, they abuse, and that doesn’t show up in the background checks, or the face-to-face interviews conducted when you’re hiring a caretaker for your, children, so, nobody will be, safe!

The Sex Crimes Against Children & Adolescents, there’d Been the Severe Punishments & Sentences in the U.S., the Parties Out of Power Proposed the Amendment to Make the Sentences More Severe for the Offenders

The proposals of “how to reform a sex offender”???  Wouldn’t we like to know, that something might be, EFFECTIVE, in solving THIS, huge, problem in the, society that we live in???  Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The T.V. personnel, Mickey Huang was found to have multiple sexually illicit footages of underage minors, causing widespread public fury.  The legislators from ALL the political parties believed, that there should be a more several, criminal charges and punishments.

The DDP legislator, Fang used the American and British laws as an example, “it’s a felony offense to have sexually illicit footages of adolescents and children”, anyone who’s been found with possession of pornographic materials relating to children and adolescence, would face the felony charges, and given sentenced of anywhere from ten to thirty years, and Taiwan should including the sexploitation of adolescents and children as a felony charge too.

now the houses are, “labeled”, but how do YOU know, that the SEX offenders in these residences won’t come out an rape again??? Photo from online

The DDP legislator, Shen believed, that there’s a need for the constitutional amendment, but, the proceedings and the details of the setting up the amendments are too complex, that adding the severe punishments may not be fixing the problem, and, the amendments is only applicable upon the moment of signing into law, it won’t punish Huang in any way.

And so, this is how the legislators from the BIG CIRCUS are now, tossing out the proposals of how to severely PUNISH the peeping toms, those who are addicted to, kiddie porn, and this is still the TREATMENT PHASE (hello, hello, hello, it’d already, HAPPENED!), instead of preventing it, and yeah, maybe having a stricter punishment for possessing these, pornographic things might deter the possible offenders from, sticking their, filthy little hands in, but it’s no, GUARANTEE, because these SEX offenders are going to, RE-OFFEND, again!  Remember that law of ONCE and ALWAYS, that applies to, EVERYTHING???  Once a loser, always a loser, once a SEX offender, ALWAYS a SEX offender, until the day, that dogs don’t sniff each other’s asses, but, they still do, because that’s how they SOCIALIZE themselves, to KNOW who’s the B-O-S-S in the, PACK!

Mickey Huang’s Punishment, Lacking Effectiveness in Correcting His Bad Behaviors? Experts: the Court-Mandated Treatments Can’t Be Effective as a Preventive Measure

How can a SEX offender, be reformed???  ECT (maybe), but that’s been, OUTLAWED, due to the CRUELTY of the nature of the practice, therapy then???  How will that be effective, if you’re addicted to sex, with the need to harm, to rape someone, all the time in your mind, and you’d lacked, IMPULSIVE, control???  So, this “proposal” is only, ideal, but NOWHERE N-E-A-R, real!  Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The T.V. Personnel, Mickey Huang was given probation for possession of pornographic images of underage minors, the district attorney’s office gave him probation; the experts of the legal realm believed that it wouldn’t have the corrective effects, but experts believed, that the foreign research studies showed, that forced therapy alone, can’t solve the problems of being addicted to sex.

The legal realms pointed out, that the D.A. had charged Huang with children and adolescent sex exploitation prevention law number 39, possessing the sexually illicit images or footages of underage minors is punishable by a prison sentence of a year and under, getting taken into police custody or a fine of $30.000N.T.s to $300,000N.T.s, it’s a misdemeanor of two years or lower in prison, that it is constitutional, that Huang was given a delayed charge.

from a powerpoint slide…found online

Some believed, that fining Huang would be more effective, and there would be the immediate response of his punishment, once the case get to the trial process, how can it be proven, that all seven of the videos in his possessions were of, underage, minors?  This may be what the defense will hound on, and, there’s still, a very high chance of Huang receiving no charges at all.

A senior district attorney stated, that based off of understanding, Huang is someone with a particular deviance.  He believed that it’s a choice of prosecuting him, there’s no good or bad, right, or wrong in the matter, but allowing Huang to use money and the letter of remorse to pay for what he’d done, it won’t have the effect of getting him corrected.

The psychiatric medical justice foundation C.E.O., Lee believes, based off of scientific evidence, using the forced treatment methods can’t have enough efficacy.  Great Britain had set up the three national levels of treatment plans for sex offenders, and it’d proven, that the forced therapies is ineffective in preventing the sex crimes.

this might work: Chemical CASTRATION of the SEX PREDATORS!!! Photo from online

“There are many faces of sexual assault, not all the factors that goes into the act of sexual assault can be, cured by preventive methods.”, Lee stated, that some of the convicted sex criminals have past traumas or psychological illnesses, but if there’s a severe lean toward the antisocial personalities, then, the treatment won’t at all be successful, it would be, counter effective even.  He believed, that the individuals should be given personalized treatment measures.  For the cases that can’t be corrected, then, there’s the need for the severe supervision of the perp, to reduce the chances of, reoffending.

And so, there’s NO preventing the sex offenders, because that’s the characters of these, perps, personality problems that’s already, formed or, had been, inborn, and, treatment methods won’t be effective, if the perp had been predisposed to the tendencies (nature), but if it was by nurture, socializing, watching the men in the younger years, raping the women, fathers assaulting mothers, etc., etc., etc., then, the behavioral techniques might (I said MIGHT!!!), work, but, there would be a need for very close supervisions of these, sex offenders, and, even if the offenders did not offend again, they still need to get, tracked, zoomed in on because how would you know, that if you’re not watching them, they won’t, reoffend, again???  So, setting these, offenders back into the wild, is, quite dangerous, and, everybody become, a possible, next, victim.

while this, can CURE, that, problem!!! Photo from online

After I Won the Jackpot

Most people would go BROKE in a couple of years after winning, because it’s human nature, to let loose, and when we got all that cash on our hands, we get caught up in the enjoying the moment mindset, and end up, squandering what could’ve been put to better use, away, carelessly!  Translated…

In the, elementary years, can’t recall if the grand prize of the lotto draw was $250,000 or half a million dollars, the instructor gave us the topic of “If I Won a Million Dollars” for our essay writing assignment, wanted the kids to write about their, dreams.

winning that jackpot…the odds…from online

Some of the classmates told that they would use the amount to travel the world, some said they were going to go and buy the “Prince” magazine, some said they were going to stuff their faces with ice cream, some were going to turn the money in to their parents, some said they were going to purchase a home (forgot who that was, but thinking about it, the student with the eyes for investing, and had s/he purchased the real estate of Taipei that’s in the higher up locations that only cost a couple of tens of thousands of dollars, s/he should be very rich by now), I’d forgotten what my dreams were, but, I think, I’d belittled the classmate who said he was going to buy the “Prince” magazine, if you want to buy, at least, he should be getting the “Student Science” that would be, more education, at least…………

As I got home, I’d excitedly asked my parents’ take on this, my mother, who’s a gynecologist by profession, and raised the hens on the side told, that she would place the million dollar winnings into the savings in the bank, and use the interest for the household needs, and that, killed my joys.

Awhile ago, the Powerball grand prize of 27 billion N.T.s was set, and I’d proposed the question, “if you won twenty-seven billion N.T.s, would you still come to work today?” and, the responses of my coworkers in the hospital, was totally, diverse from the children’s.

Technician A told, “of course NOT, I’d quit in a, heartbeat!”

Manager of department, B said, “I will take my wife traveling every single day, visit the entire world!”

Technician C, “surely, I’d still, come to work, I’d be, lowkey about it.”

Thinking it deeper, this question, is actually, quite, serious, there were the reports that told, that the statistics from Youth Financial Education of the U.S. showed, that about seventy-percent of lotto winners, would declare bankruptcy within five years; there’s no way I can, confirm if this was true or false, but, I would, imagine, how someone can be completely, bankrupt because of this.

chances are, they will, squander everything away, unlike how maybe they’d planned to pay off the bills…photo from online

The Economic Nobel Prize winner in 2017, researched on economics behaviorism, Thaler said, people would categorize the sources of how they received the cash, into “by laboring”, “rewards from work”, “not worked for it”, and some other “psychological accounts”.  When people won the cash prizes, received an inheritance, this would be the “unlabored for”, and, when they’d spend these money, they would more than likely to lose their rationalities, and failed to note, the cost of things, ended up, squandering away.

“The Psychology of Money” also stated, that the different sources of monetary gain (i.e. from wages, winnings, inheritance, stolen……….), even if the sums are the same, we’d used different ways to spend it; when the money was from the wages, we are more than likely to use the money for rent, utilities bills, credit card bills, along with other normal spending, but when the money is from the accidental gains like winning the lotto, then, we would be likely to spend it on what’s extravagant and not necessary (or even, gamble, bigger).

There are similar cases in inheritances too, from the legal, we’d heard a ton of stories of how the offspring wanted the parents’ money, to the point of suing their parents in court, “I’m merely, spending up what will eventually be, mine”, these kinds of tales, I’d feel, that there should be more room for discussion for the divisions of assets (disregarding what the will says).

Back to the lotto, when people won, they’d never thought that they would be declaring bankruptcy one day, but from another angle, if the goals of life is making enough so we can retire without much troubles, maybe, in our thirties or forties, we won the lotto suddenly, reached that goal, then, what are we to do in the days that come?  Would we still need to, work?  If the goals of work is not just money, then, what should it, be?

These are, questions worth considering on, but for me, to protect myself, I have only one vital thing to do, hmmmmmmmmmmm, and that would be, to keep myself from bankrupting, I don’t win, the lotto.

This showed, human nature, of how when we have more than enough, we have the tendency to spend over what we’d been, allotted, because suddenly, we got all that, cash, and, instead of thinking rationally, on how to make this sum last longer, (like putting it into investments, etc., etc., etc.) we are focused in on the now, and chances are, we all, squander everything away, unless, of course, you have a ton of, self-control, and are satisfied with having just your most basic needs of shelter, food, something that you can get around in, fulfilled.  But that’s, not how, the majority of people, worked, so…

A Convicted Sex Predator Believed that the Young Girls are More Gullible, Modeled After the Pornography Footages to Satisfy His Urges, Is About to Be Released from Serving His Sentence, with a Very High-Risk of Reoffending, the Court Ordered Him into Court-Mandated Therapy for Three More Years

And you THINK, that he’s not going to, do it again, after the three year mandated, therapy???  Just how NAÏVE are the members of the justice systems, huh???  He will, offend, AGAIN, because that’s what sex offenders do, and this cycle still, NEVER, ends!  On the government’s FAILED attempts to REFORM a SEX PREDATOR!  Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The man, Gu had repeatedly used a dangerous weapon to threaten two underage girls and sexually assaulted them both, sentenced to sixteen years of prison, is about to, be let out, the Taichung District Court, based off of his psych evaluation, believed that he has a high risk of reoffending, a low chance that he’ll ever be, “cured”, and in his time serving in prison, he’d admitted that he’d modeled after what he saw in the porn, that the younger age girls are easier to manipulate, the courts considered the testimonies of the social workers, his psych evaluation, and stated that Gu would need three years of mandated therapy after his release from prison.

Gu had been sentenced to eighteen years for forced sexual intercourse and other charges, he’d served sixteen years and a month to date, and, in his time in prison, the evaluation experts assessed him, found him to have a very high chance of repeating the offenses again, and the district attorneys asked the courts to make a decision, ordering Gu enter into the medical facility to treat his sex addiction.

this won’t do SHIT!!! Photo from online

The Taichung District Court investigated, found that Gu had threatened two females under age of fourteen with a knife, forced them to have sex with him, and the two crimes, gave him a sentence of a total of eighteen years, and, in 2004, he’d been convicted of theft and robbery, sentenced to six months, seven years eight months, and the charges combined, that he needed to serve a twenty year prison sentence confirmed.

and all of these, are only, on the, THEORETICAL, side, the application??? NOT so much! Slide from online

The courts considered, that on the counts of sexual assault, Gu had finished serving the time for on February 16^th, and there’s only the sentences for armed robbery, and other offenses, estimated that his release date will be June 16^th this year.  But, in Gu’s group therapy, and personal psychotherapy sessions in prison, he’d been found to have a “high risk” of reoffending, “low chance of cure”.

The evaluation reports pointed out, that after Gu committed the sex offenses, he had NO remorse, lacking social and family support, lacked empathy, suggested that after he served his sentence, he gets placed in mandated therapy.

The evaluation documented that Gu, to satisfy his own needs, copied the pornography he’d watched, and continued to offend, and reduced his own criminal offenses into “I have too strong a sex drive, I was too young to know better, my wife doesn’t comply with fulfilling my needs.”, “The young girls are easier targets”.

The courts, basing the evaluation of social workers, and the psychotherapists testimonies, and, although Gu stated he was willing to wear an electronic ankle monitor, and swore he was never going to do it again, but, considering the odds, the courts still mandated that after Gu’s release, he needed to enter into a medical facility, or other rehabilitation centers for three years to get himself treated.

Yeah, uh, despite how the psych evaluation by a PROFESSIONAL SHRINK advised against this SEX OFFENDER’s release from prison, they’re still, letting him go, and, like the three whole years of court mandated therapy would do anything, to prevent this mother FUCKER (don’t pardon!) from raping again?  Yeah, and because of this wrong CALL, people will get RAPED, thanks to the COURTS!

If a Species of Living Things Goes Extinct…

If a species of living things goes, extinct, then, it would be because, that particular species is ill-adapted to survive in today’s, world, and, it shouldn’t be around in the first place any longer, right?  And so, why the FUCK (don’t pardon me!) are we humans, trying to play GOD, in saving these, endangered, almost-going-extinct, species?

And, we are the ones, destroying the natural habitats of those, species of “lower orders” of living organisms, with our building more homes, because the global population is, booming to how many again (that’s 8.17 BILLION, and yes, I just checked THAT too!), and, with all these people, repopulating the globe, how can we make sure that the world stays, clear of pollution, with the energies we rely on, reducing by the nanoseconds here, as more people means, need for MORE electricity, more nuclear plants (b/c, let’s face it, GREEN energy just don’t, work that fast!), and with all those nuclear power plants, cranking out too much NUCLEAR WASTES, where does that go?  Oh yeah, into the oceans and that polluted the fish, and we’re told, to NOT eat the larger species of fish for food, as the bigger they are, chances are, that they would have more, nuclear waste “residues” inside their systems………

If a species of living organisms is going extinct, doesn’t it mean, that it’s not fit to live on this planet, that it, DESERVES to, D-I-E off?  So, here’s my question, why the FUCK are we, still, saving them, from extinction?  Because we feel that we’re all, morally responsible, as a higher-thinking species, with a higher purpose of, helping to save the planet?

like all of these, because they couldn’t adapt, and became, ill-fitted to, survive??? Illustration from online

So, if we’re all that high and mighty, then, why are there, those wars that are currently started, or are about to, start?  And, wouldn’t that be contradictory???

Uh, DUH!

So, this is why, the world’s a total mess, because we can’t just, live our lives, and then, just DIE like good little boys and girls would, we have this need to keep on, living longer, longer, longer, and ,we want immortality that’s what this is, and, by trying to get at achieving immortality, do you know HOW many other species will get sacrificed for that, SHITTY cause?

Too many to count up, and so, we humans are, the SOLE sources of all things, evil, think about it, do animals kill each other for anything else other than food, to survive?  HECK no, they slaughter, because if they don’t, they die, and they got mouths to feed, that’s how they ensure that their genes would get, passed down to their, next generations…

Theory of EVOLUTION, anyone???

The Holes in the Childcare Laws, Only Set the Teacher-Student Ratios Not Mandated that There Should be Two Early Childhood Certified Caretakers Per Classroom

The teacher to student ratio had been set, but, there’s no written rule of at least two early childhood professional caretakers per preschool classroom setting, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The Preschool All Over the Island Has the “Half-a-Classroom Functional” Problems

Currently in the preschool classes here, there are usually two early childhood educators, to allow the instructors of the classroom to have the needed support from the early childhood educators, and vice versa, but recently, the N.F.T.U. received the complaints, that a lot of the cities and counties, when adding more preschools to the districts, would use the “half-a-class” human resources means, causing some of the classes with only one early childhood assistant, who can only keep the eyes on half the class, calling out to the Department of Education to amend the “early childhood education and care laws” to resolve the wayward situation of “half-a-class being taken care of” in preschools.

Based off of the current regulations, the student to teacher ratio for three-to-five-year-old preschool classes is one adult to fifteen children, with the maximum number of students being thirty, meaning, that two nursery workers per thirty children; the two-year-old classes, with a student limit of sixteen children, the teacher to student ratio being one to eight.

this is how foreign countries do it…but apparently, this “country” can’t catch up to the “games”…from onine

But the N.F.T.U. stated, that the early childcare laws only followed the teacher to student ration, without making sure of the two early childhood caretakers per class, causing there to be “half-a-class” in a lot of the counties and cities when they added more preschools to the districts, meaning, that they’re only taking in half of what’s required as the total of students, and only had one early childhood classroom help.

Based off of the survey conducted by N.F.T.U., it’d been found, that this is happening across the whole island, the C.E.O. Hou suspected, that this may be caused by how the local government saves up on the cost of hiring the early childhood educators, he can’t come up with other possible reasons for this.

The N.F.T.U. said, that children under age six needs the nursery care workers around them at all times, if there’s only one adult in a classroom, there’s no way of ensuring every child’s safety.  There are teachers who’d stated, that in the “half-a-class” systems, there are the sudden onsets of emergencies, for instance, a child vomited and needed to have the place sanitized completely, or a child has diarrhea, or arguments between children, with only one certified caretaker, there’s no way that the adult can manage an entire class full of children.  And this will get worse in the classes of two-year-olds.

On this, the Department of Education stated, that it will supervise the local governments, to have the preschools hire by the regulations of the law, and consider the actual needs of the schools individually, to adjust the number of teacher per classroom.

And so, this is still how SLOW the Department of Education is to response to this teacher-to-student ratio “thing”.  And, it seemed that the Department of Education, just like all the government agencies under the D.D.P., keep missing out on the “memos”, I mean, it IS, common sense that the younger the age group is, there’s the lower teacher to student ratio, and as the kids grow older, then, there would be more number of students getting supervised by a school instructor, and yet, this god damn government is slow to respond to this problem that is coming up to the surface in early childhood education here.

“If the Actions of Mistreatment of Young Children is Only by One Early Childhood Educator,”, then the ENTIRE Preschool will Get Listed as Unfitting, and, Put Out of Operations

This doesn’t work, because instead of going after the individuals who are not fitting enough as early childhood educators, the government zooms in on the schools, and, sure, the schools should have a stricter background checks, but, sometimes, the bad behaviors isn’t apparent on those, résumés, so, this is still, a HALF-ASSED bill!  Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The third stage draft of the regulation of public preschool mandated, that if the mistreatments of young children by the early childhood care employees had been proven factual, the termination of contract for hire for the early childhood educators are effective immediately, and these unfitting educators will never get hired again, and from the date of the contract, the actions can be reviewed to three years prior.  Toward this, the E.C.E.A. and other early childhood foundations believed, that it should be decided on the severity of the early childhood educators’ behaviors, and if the contract for hire is terminated, then, the added note of “regarding severe actions, and those who are responsible for the operations of the facilities”, and also suggested that the reviews of the past behaviors not get considered in, that the actions of the instructor is effective on the day that the contract for hire is signed.

Hsieh, stated, that the system of wages currently only considered the years of experiences, and not asked about the degrees in training, that this is also incomplete.  Using the monthly wages of $32,000N.T. to hire the teaching assistant for the daycare classes who only have a technical high school degree or certification is a bit high, but, if the same costs are paid to the certified preschool instructors and the directors of a preschool, that’s, extremely, low.  And, the drafts of the bill proposed the reduction of the number of students being enrolled, and, there’s a forty-percent total charge deducted from the cost of handling charges, that this would be huge losses for the preschools, and more problems are bound to surface because of this.

And so, this is, all because of the department of education’s wrongly written rules, and, it places emphasis on punishing the schools for hiring the unfitting educators, but not enough punishments or restrictions on the bad early childhood educators, and, the wages are way too low too, and so, how the HELL can you expect that these early childhood educators will stay enthusiastic (if that was how they’d begun) through the years of work, if the benefits are not high enough, and if they get blamed for everything that happens in the school, that’s not even, their faults?  So, this is still, a HALF-ASSED proposal by the DDP government, in ITS, FAILED attempt to make we the people believe, that they are, taking the matters of abuse and mistreatment of young children in the daycare programs, preschools, kindergartens, seriously.

The Farthest Distance to the Tub: Seven Centimeters

The problems of growing older, which we are all going to face one day in our, near or, far, future, and, there’s just, no way that we can, equip our homes with these needed things, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The years, turned the farthest to nearest, and the nearest to the, farthest.

A professor of mine who was in his nineties, had originally been very healthy, used his cane, gotten him all over the places.  But the cold fronts that came before the New Year’s, he’d had a minor, stroke.

His daughter rushed back from the U.S.  They’d been separated for long, and now, they live, next room to each other.

As the professor became immobile, the bathroom needs to allow for the convenience of a wheelchair.  There was, originally an elevated eleven-centimeter height, with the floor board of seven centimeters up.  The daughter found the handyman, and leveled the frame of the door to seven, which is the same as the height of the floor in the bathroom.

But how would the man, get over these, seven centimeters in his wheelchair?

I’d helped my professor to search for a ramp on line, the height ranges from three to nineteen centimeters, and fitted for both indoors and out, with the words, “Safe Passage” on them.  It’s just, that the width of these boards are only, fifty centimeters, and the wheelchair’s, the bath chairs widths, both, sixty.  “Buy two of them, and, saw the extra off?”, the daughter suggested.  “but, you can’t tie the two together that they stay together, as the wheelchair goes across, the shorter one is bound to slide to the side,” I’d told.

And so, I’d found a carpenter to custom make one.  “It will take me three days”, the carpenter told me, “can you put a rush on it?”, I’d pleaded.  Seeing how his shop was stacked with other things he needed to get finished with, although I’d not felt right, rushing him, I’d still told him, “an elder couldn’t get bathed for too many days already, and it’s around the New Year’s, and the weather’s heated up.”

Within three day’s time, in the evenings, I’d made my way to the carpenter’s, surprised to see that the ramp was already finished and on the table!  “It was late, so I didn’t call you,” he’d told.  Of course I didn’t mind, I’d, picked it up gladly.

The size was just right, the work, perfectly done, but, I’d not predicted, that there was a wall that’s right in front of the bathroom that the wheelchair couldn’t go in in the front, that the chair had to slide sideways to enter.  And now, a ramp wouldn’t be enough.  “I’m so sorry”, the daughter was apologetic for not letting me know this, and I was beating myself, for missing the forest for the trees.  She’d told me, “let’s just use the washboard as a ramp for now.”

And, with the ramp, and the sliding plastic washboard, the wheelchair bumped into the bathroom.  And, my professor had gotten a good wash of his hair in the sink, for the very first time after his stroke.  The sink, was so close within reach before the New Year’s, but, after the New Year’s, it was, miles out.  And that sink, became a wishing fountain, and it’d, fulfilled the wish of a daughter.

I’d gone back to the carpenter, to find a piece of wood that can replace the washboard.  It was, next to impossible to perfectly match the board in size, width, with the original ramp, we only want the board to be sturdy enough, that it doesn’t move as the wheels of the wheelchair slide across it.

The road to rehabilitation is long and winding, and, there are, bound to be bumps on it.  And, how much can seven-centimeters make up for, so long as the wheelchair didn’t bump around too much, it’s, a win for us.

After the second board was received, my professor was finally able to get into his own bathroom for a bath.

The years, it’s a friend who can, get on bad terms with us.  It’d been friends with us for many a years, slowly, offering the intelligence, the connections, the money to us, so we can, solve the problems in our, lives, but, in an instant, it can, take all the capabilities away.  It’d allowed us to travel far and wide, to all the places, and in the end, it’d, prevent us from getting our most basic needs of going to the toilets, getting a bath or a shower.

I stood outside the carpenter’s shop, with a piece of board that’s not right in size, thought about my instructor when he was younger, when I was, a child.  Forty years, it was only, an, instant it seemed.  Although I’d not had a conversation with him since a long, long time, but it’d felt, that I’m, so very, close to him.  So close, that we’re only, seven centimeters, apart.

And so, this is the distance, of the handicapped person between where they need to, go, and even in their own homes, they can’t, get the needed amenities, because, of how everything is, custom made, and everything is needed right now, and, these things takes time to get made, and, there’s just, NO prediction of what will happen in our futures, and so, there’s, no complete ways of preparing for these inconveniences of our, elderly, years…and, we can only, live with this, difficulty in our lives, when we age.