The campsite where hundreds of elementary school students were fined to kneel while camping in Kaohsiung was illegal.

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[Reporter Ge Youhao/Kaohsiung Report] Hundreds of people were fined to kneel while camping at an elementary school in Sanmin District, Kaohsiung City, which led to the resignation of the principal. However, the Tourism Bureau found that the campground in Qishan District was actually a land for farming and animal husbandry. Legal, the Bureau of Agriculture will issue fines according to law.

An elementary school in Sanmin District, Kaohsiung City held a graduation camp for 5th graders last week. It was reported that hundreds of students were woken up at 5:00 a.m. by an outsourced health care worker named "Activity Instructor" and punished them all by kneeling. Even swear words.

In addition to punishing off-campus teaching manufacturers, the Kaohsiung City Education Bureau will also replace the principal with immediate effect, and appoint a school inspector to act as the principal.

This matter also leads to whether the camping ground is legal? According to the Gaocheng Tourism Bureau, camping is popular throughout Taiwan, but the proportion of camping grounds set up illegally is as high as 88%. In Kaohsiung City, only 10 of the 90 camping grounds are legal. The campsite the students went to was located in Qishan District, and it was also an illegal campsite after investigation.

The Gaoshi Tourism Bureau stated that this campsite belongs to agricultural and pastoral land. It applied to the Bureau of Agriculture for a leisure farm many years ago, but was unsuccessful.

In July last year, the Tourism Bureau of the Ministry of Communications revised the management points of camping grounds, conditionally allowing agricultural, forestry and pastoral land with an area of ​​less than 1 hectare of non-urban land to be used as camping grounds. After this incident, the Bureau of Agriculture may issue fines according to law.

The Education Bureau emphasized that in the future, schools will be required to carefully select legal camping sites and pay attention to the safety of students.