The results of a survey by a teachers’ organization showed that 87% of teachers responded that they felt the emotion of ‘anger’ in connection with the case where a teacher was found dead at an elementary school in Seocho-gu, Seoul.
The National Teachers and Education Workers Union held a press conference in front of the National Assembly on the morning of the 25th and announced the results of the survey conducted from the 22nd to yesterday (24th).
14,500 teachers working in kindergarten, elementary, middle, high, and special schools nationwide participated in the survey. As a result of the survey, it was found that teachers felt the emotion of anger (87.5%) the most in relation to this incident.
This was followed by 75.1% of helplessness, 68% of sorry, 61.1% of depression, 59.2% of self-doubt, and 44.0% of anxiety. Teachers with less than 5 years of experience, and elementary school teachers by grade, felt more anger.
Among the educational activities, the number one difficulty teachers experienced was ‘adaptive student life guidance’ (95.3%), followed by ‘excessive work’ (87.1%), ‘absence of support and protection system from the school community’ (84.1%), and ‘excessive complaints from parents’ (81.6%).
Regarding the support experienced when parents complained, ‘support from fellow teachers’ (65.2%) was the highest, but ‘I did not receive any help’ (28.6%) was second.
As for measures to protect parents from abuse of power and malicious complaints, the rate of ‘strengthening punishment for perpetrators, such as legalization of compulsory reporting of violations of school authority to the superintendent of education’ (63.9%) was the highest.
Regarding what education authorities should do to prevent the recurrence of incidents and guarantee teaching rights, ‘Prevention of punishment for child abuse in legitimate educational activities through revision of relevant laws’ (89.2%), ‘Specific indication of teacher’s life guidance rights in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Early Childhood Education Act and Ministry of Education notice’ (66.2%) appeared in the order.
As a measure to guarantee teachers’ teaching rights, the Teachers and Education Workers’ Union proposed three major tasks and 13 detailed tasks, including ▲protection of teachers from infringement of teacher rights and malicious complaints, ▲revision of the law to protect teacher rights in the process of handling child abuse cases, and ▲establishment of a support structure to guarantee teachers’ right to guide their lives.
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2023-07-25 02:24:00
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