The lawmakers are, once again, BLABBING, out of, turn here again, still missing the point here, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
On the 25th, the Executive Yuan posted its “Internet connection for every class, every student has an iPad”, giving priority to the students in the distant-region schools an iPad each. In actuality however, what the distant-region schools need, is NOT only the hardware, the lacking in professional instructors, without a stable rate of instructors on staff, and low motives for learning, are the primary issues of education in the distant-region schools right now.
Like how Iris Marion Young’s definition of justice, “it should not only be on the allocations, but also based off of developing, and fulfilling the personal abilities, the collective communication means, cooperation, along with all the systems working together all at once”. For the distant region schools, equal education shouldn’t be on the assignment of resources only, but the total reform of the environment as whole, to set up the system that helps cultivate the desires to learn in children, to raise their children’s level of self-confidence, so they can have the means to make their own dreams come true, to meet the goals that they set for themselves.
For long, it’d been very difficult, for the distant region schools to get the qualified instructors, the substitutes, the surrogate instructors are higher in rate with a high rate of moving around, of leaving the jobs, and the instructors aren’t subject specific, with a low rate of subject-specific instructions. Plus there’s, this general lacking in social resources, lacking in economics and culture, with the family of not enough ability to support the children, hard to make the living environment to get the students to tap into their potentials, in the lacking of the multiple fronts, causing the students in distant regions to fall farther, farther behind in learning; and they’d become, less motivated, to put in the time to learn, couldn’t get the drive for leaning.
As the described-above conditions not meeting up, even IF the government gives every student an iPad, the children in distant regions will still, duplicate their past fail experiences in learning, let along, turning their own lives around for the future.
“Every class with internet accessibility, every student with an iPad”, this sort of an “equal rights to all”, isn’t equality after all. The imaginations that government has toward the distant-regions, should NOT stay stagnant on the provisions of hardware, but instead, to change the system, along with altering the positive discrimination belief systems, think on how the distant regions can get enough qualified instructors to teach locally lowering the rate of transferring out, set a steady instructor resources; how to add more energies, more resources with the local communities to help the children in distant-region schools, to motivate the students to want to learn things, to believe that they are, capable enough, with that sense of hope for their futures. That way, it would guarantee, that children in distant region schools will have an equal opportunity.
And so the government still, missed the boat, on the purpose of improving the education means in the distant region schools, and they’re too retarded to think, that money, hardware will, solve all the problems in the distant regions, the problem here, is that the students lacked the motivations to learn, because what’s the point? It’s not like by studying hard, we’ll have a better future, stuck here, in this, distant region, so, the reinforcements aren’t nearly enough, and if there’s not enough reinforcements, how can a kid be motivated to learn?