Teachers of preschool infants and toddlers who are alienated from the measures to protect teacher rights
Parents demand to watch CCTV from time to time, complaint bomb
When a child abuse accusation is filed, the police may take it away without permission.
Early childhood teachers “must provide minimum protection measures”
Recently, childcare teachers at a daycare center in Gyeonggi-do were scolded by parents’ complaints that they would recklessly check CCTV. It was not a situation in which abuse was suspected, but simply ‘the child is strange’. Because the privacy of other children and faculty members’ faces can be exposed, the consent of the operation committee within the childcare institution is required to view the CCTV, but the parents ignored this and recklessly asked for it to be shown.
Kang Won-mi, president of the Korea Family Daycare Center Association, said, “Parents often ask for CCTV to be seen unconditionally when a child does not eat at home or does not want to go to daycare center.”
As a result of Maeil Business News coverage on the 16th, unlike elementary, middle and high school teachers, kindergarten and daycare center teachers whose childcare process was exposed to CCTV complained of extreme stress due to complaints from parents. Due to the extreme choice of teachers at Seoi Elementary School, discussions on measures to protect elementary, middle and high school teaching rights are active, but some point out that teachers of infants and toddlers are being left out of the discussion.
Chairman Kang said, “If you listen to the stories of the directors of various daycare centers, some procedures are required to view CCTV, but there are not a few parents who want to come and see it blindly.” , They said they would open all the videos for two months.”
It is also not uncommon for parents to accuse teachers or principals of child abuse and the police to take away CCTV for investigation purposes. A nursery school teacher who requested anonymity said, “This place has to have CCTVs running even for a day, but the police took the CCTV and rented it, saying that there was an accusation of child abuse.” They didn’t even pay for it, so I paid 200,000 won the other day.” The police take the video without copying it, and the daycare center has to bear the rental cost for this part.
Even if no charges of child abuse are found, childcare institutions that have been accused once will suffer damage that is difficult to recover from. This is because negative rumors about childcare centers spread through mom cafes. In fact, in 2021, the director of a daycare center in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi-do, suffered from a suspicious child abuse post posted by a parent on Mom Cafe, and made an extreme choice near the reservoir, appealing for innocence.
Chairman Kang said, “In the case of the Hwaseong Daycare Center, he requested to see the CCTV because his child did not want to go to the daycare center, and then a child other than his own climbed onto the window sill and saw the video of the teacher dropping the child off, and posted it on Mom Cafe as a problem.” Since there is no suspicion that the child of the child was abused, this incident occurred while making an unreasonable claim.”
In many cases, teachers quit due to reckless CCTV viewing and excessive accusations of child abuse. A teacher at a daycare center in Gyeonggi-do said, “The children fought among themselves, and the teachers are demanding compensation for mental damage. Most of them go from 5 million won to 10 million won.” She added, “I’ve seen a lot of fellow teachers leave the industry because they are exhausted from the lengthy trial process, even though they come out mostly innocent.”
According to data released by the Democratic Party of Korea Min-seok Ahn’s office, the number of counseling cases for infringement of teaching rights by kindergarten teachers recently, excluding Daegu and Gyeongnam, has increased by more than five times compared to before COVID-19. Kindergarten teachers are not obliged to set up a teacher authority protection committee except for national and public private kindergartens, so even the means to protect teacher rights are weak.
At the same time, teachers of infants and toddlers made it clear that they were not against the installation of CCTVs. Chairman Kang said, “Isn’t it right to set up an arbitration committee with experts between the agency and the police to clarify the existence of child abuse and follow the official procedure?”
2023-08-16 14:15:48
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