Keeping Order

So this post is going to be about how teachers and student relationships work in Taiwan. If it sounds boring then feel free to skip it.
So students start learinging how Taiwan school life works right away. Once a week in the kindergarten the students go outside stand in line with there class and do exercises (they dance, it is adorable). This eventualy evolves into twice a week school wide gatherings in high school. Mondays we all stand outside with our classes. Military style. Someone in front yells out the way we are supposed to stand, hands held behind our back, hands at our sides, or on had on the hip. There is no slouching or talking, unless no one is looking. We have 3 military officers on campus. They help everyone stay in line. Corporal munishment is not alowed, they just yell. Luckily I don't get punished. Though, I could waltz off campus and no one would think anything was wrong (don't worry Mom, I don't ditch school). On Wednesdays we also meet, same place same time. Except this time we do a 5 minute exercise routine.
When class starts and the teacher walks in, everyone stands up. Then we great the teacher and do a little bow. Students don't ask questions in class and rarley is student participation activly used. I have some great teachers that don't always follow this ideal, but it is very different from America. In the U.S. the teacher demands attention, in Taiwan it is readily given. When students pass teachers in the hall, they say hello.
I think Taiwans system is a bit too strict, but that America's is deffinetly to lax.

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Zai Jian!