President Yoon Seok-yeol is speaking at a conversation with teachers on the occasion of the Four Laws for Protecting Teachers’ Rights held at the Presidential Office Building in Yongsan, Seoul on the 6th. /yunhap news
President Yoon Seok-yeol held a meeting with on-site teachers, including those at Seoi Elementary School in Seoul, on the 6th and said, “We will continue to supplement detailed guidelines (related to protecting teaching rights) so that you can teach students with predictability.” . Recently, as the decline in educational authority was cited as a reason why teachers made extreme choices one after another, President Yoon expressed his will to normalize the education field. President Yoon announced that he would increase the homeroom teacher’s allowance, which had been frozen for a long time, by 50% and the teacher’s allowance by more than double.
On this day, President Yoon held a meeting with 20 teachers from elementary, middle, high schools, special schools, and kindergartens at the President’s Office and heard about the difficulties in the field. President Yoon said, “Teaching rights are not the rights of teachers, but rather the rights of students,” and added, “It is the same as the state having certain authority to maintain order to protect the freedom and rights of the people, not the rights of public officials.” At the same time, he said, “Rather than thinking about it as a confrontation between ‘teaching rights versus student human rights,’ we should ultimately view it as students’ rights,” and added, “Student human rights without teaching rights are also empty talk.”
Regarding the Seoi Elementary School teacher death incident that occurred last July, President Yoon said, “If the government and the National Assembly had worked together a little more to cooperate and make efforts to normalize the educational environment and the law was revised quickly, the unfortunate incident could have been prevented. It is very disappointing.” “It’s unfortunate,” he said. The four major bills to ‘protect teaching rights’, which were also President Yoon’s presidential election pledge, were passed by the National Assembly on the 21st of last month. At the Cabinet meeting on the 12th of last month, President Yoon said, “Recently, there has been a series of sad news from the education field,” regarding the situation in which the four laws protecting educational rights were pending in the National Assembly due to a standoff between the ruling and opposition parties. “I hope it will be processed quickly,” he said.
President Yoon said, “If you receive love and benefits and then turn around and criticize that person, no matter how much knowledge you instill, it is the same as setting up a bomb in society.” He added, “Not only in schools and home education, but also in the country, we need to keep creating laws, but we have neglected that. “He said. He continued, “In the past, we said, ‘We will realize true education,’ but there are many doubts as to whether it is better than 30 to 40 years ago.” Last August, the current government prepared a public notice that included measures such as allowing teachers to physically restrain students who assault students or send students who disrupt class out into the hallway.
In particular, President Yoon said, “We have decided to increase the homeroom teacher allowance by more than 50% and the position allowance by more than two times to further boost the morale of teachers in raising the future generation.” It has been pointed out that the homeroom teacher allowance is 130,000 won per month since 2016, and the assignment allowance is 70,000 won per month since 2003, so field teachers are not receiving proper compensation.
The phrase ‘Normalization of public education through restoration of teaching rights’ was written on the backdrop of the conference room on this day, and from the government side, Deputy Prime Minister Lee Joo-ho, National Education Commission Chairman Lee Bae-yong, Presidential Office’s Senior Secretary for State Affairs Lee Kwan-seop and Senior Secretary for Social Affairs Ahn Sang-hoon were present. The President’s Office stated, “This reflects President Yoon’s will to continue to collect on-site opinions regarding the restoration of teaching rights even after the revision of the four laws protecting teaching rights.”
2023-10-06 08:27:14
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