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foreign teachers instill "taiwan independence" rhetoric in students? official: the institution is unqualified, and the app has been removed from the shelves

2024-09-20

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the china private education association released a message on september 20: recently, it was reported online that"british foreign teachers instill in students that taiwan does not belong to china", many netizens filed complaints and reports. after verification with the authority,the subject involved is an unqualified and illegal organization, and the relevant app has been removed from the shelves, relevant violations will be further investigated and dealt with.

on september 17, a video showed that a childwhen studying online english on the lingostar platform, the foreign teacher claimed that taiwan does not belong to chinathe company later issued a statement saying that it firmly supports the "one china" principle and that the teacher involved has been expelled and will never be re-enrolled.

according to the statement, the class in the video took place on the evening of september 12.the foreign teacher who indoctrinated children with "taiwan independence" remarks had the username "teacher paul uk" on the platform and was a new teacher on probation.after monitoring this situation,lingostar immediately fired the teacher and will never continue to enroll him.

the statement also stated that lingostar would require teachers to sign a teacher responsibility commitment letter before taking up their posts.the letter of commitment includes the following statement: "political remarks are not allowed in the courses."however, the foreign teacher deliberately broke his promise during the class.

according to the video posted by the blogger, the teacher claimed to be from the uk and had lived in taiwan, and then repeatedly told the chinese students that "taiwan is a country." when the child's mother corrected and reminded him, the teacher interrupted the parents and raised his middle finger to insult them, and then immediately left the class.

it is reported that lingostar is an overseas online education institution from singapore. it uses "one-to-one live english courses taught by british and american foreign teachers" as its selling point and provides english courses specifically for children aged 5 to 13. in china, it has authorized companies such as shenzhen zhixing zhiyuan education technology co., ltd. and beijing xideling education technology co., ltd.