# A student at an elementary school in Jeonbuk suffered bruises on his face due to self-harm, and the parents reported that teacher A had abused the child. When the accused was acquitted, the parents re-reported that the teacher had angered the student and harmed himself.
#Mr. B, a teacher at an elementary school in Chiyeok, Gyeonggi Province, bought food for a student who asked him to buy it because he did not have money to buy snacks during the experiential learning. Then, the parents demanded an apology and compensation for the psychological damage, claiming that the child was treated like a beggar.
#Mr. C, a teacher at an elementary school in Gyeonggi-do, met with a parent who had a credit card business and was advised to get a new credit card. Mr. C eventually signed up for the threat of not leaving the classroom until he wrote the application form, but he had to throw away his credit card without using it.
These are some of the cases of infringement of teaching rights received by the Korean Federation of Teachers’ Organizations. While teachers are complaining of damage due to infringement of teaching rights, the Federation of Korean Teachers’ Federation has counted 11,600 cases of infringement of teaching rights. appear. In addition, it was requested that teachers’ life guidance be specified so that students who exhibit problematic behavior can be immediately restrained.
On the 3rd, the Korean Federation of Teachers’ Organizations announced that a total of 11,628 cases of infringement of teacher rights were received online for 9 days from the 25th of last month. Among the cases, 57.8% (6720 cases) of threatening to report child abuse or filing malicious complaints accounted for the largest proportion. Infringement of teaching rights by parents accounted for 71.8% of the total (8344 cases), more than twice as many as infringement by students.
In cases of malicious civil complaints and obstruction of business, such as child abuse, there have been cases where parents demanded that their children go to school by car because they were injured at school, or gave teachers’ mobile phone numbers to loan sharks who borrowed money. Violence and abusive language by students was at a serious level. One student threatens with a cutter knife because he does not want to present, and another student does not hesitate to use violent words and curses at the teacher, such as “I want to hit the head with a golf club. ”
The abusive language of the parents who visited the school is beyond imagination. In the case, “I am a gangster. Remarks such as “Do you want to be stabbed on the street?” “If you ignore my words, I will kill you all,” “You can cut me if I want to,” were received. Students and parents said, “My uncle is going to counseling if the teacher is not married,” “I want to impregnate the teacher,” and “I can imagine the teacher wearing a swimsuit.”
Jeong Seong-guk, president of the Federation of Korean Teachers’ Organizations, held an ‘urgent press conference to deliver on-site demands for guaranteeing the right to education’ and presented 5 policies and 30 tasks to protect teacher rights. The five major policies include student measures against problematic behaviors such as class interruption and infringement of teacher authority, measures to protect students’ learning rights and teachers’ rights from indiscriminate reports of child abuse, measures against infringement of teacher rights and malicious complaints by parents, swift revision of the School Violence Prevention Act, and teacher authority They demanded the improvement of protection conditions and school environment.
As a detailed task, the Federation of Teachers’ Federation insisted that the Ministry of Education notice to be announced this month should include content containing practical sanctions, such as leaving the classroom, so that teachers can immediately안전놀이터 stop students who disrupt classes. In addition, it was announced that the function of the school teacher rights protection committee (Kyobowi) should be transferred and strengthened to the local office of education, and the facts of infringement of teacher rights, such as transfer, expulsion, and class change, should be recorded in the student life record book. In addition, in order to prevent teachers from having to endure police and local government investigations, dismissal of positions, or replacement of homeroom teachers just by reporting child abuse, the removal of the position must be done carefully. It also demanded that it should be able to accuse. It is also argued that the Law on Teacher Status can be amended to impose fines or accuse parents of violating teacher rights, establish a unified complaint window such as a call center for local education offices, keep teachers’ personal phone numbers private, and block civil complaints through social networking services (SNS ) . did.
A survey result was also announced, saying that violations of teacher rights should be addressed urgently, such as thinking that violations of student rights should be recorded in the school records (student records). According to the ‘results of a survey on teachers’ perceptions to strengthen the protection of educational activities’ announced by the Ministry of Education on the same day, 90% of the teachers said they were in favor of writing down measures for infringement of educational activities in the school record book. 69.1% of faculty responded ‘very much in favor’ of the student record, and 20.9% responded ‘in favor’. The survey was conducted online from the 3rd to the 16th with 22,084 teachers in 1,315 kindergartens and schools across the country. From the 5th to the 9th, 1455 parents of the parent policy monitoring group responded.
In particular, the majority of teachers showed a strong attitude, believing that it was appropriate to write down all measures for infringement of educational activities in the student record from the beginning. When asked what method would be appropriate to write down measures for infringement of educational activities in the student register, 62.8% of the respondents answered that ‘record all infringement measures from the beginning’. In the case of parents, 75.6% agreed to write down the measures for infringement of educational activities in the school record book. However, 37.7% of the respondents answered that ‘recording only serious infringement measures from the beginning (recording only transfer and expulsion measures)’ was the most appropriate method for writing in the student record.
A difference in perception between teachers and parents was also revealed about the causes of the increase in infringement of teacher rights. Teachers pointed out strict punishment and lack of on-site response regulations, but parents often cited the educational environment as the reason, such as the lack of preventive education and prevention systems, and the lack of a reasonable complaint handling system for guardians.