For the second week following last week, teachers gathered to hold a rally in memory of a freshman teacher who died at an elementary school in Seoul.
Teachers, who voluntarily gathered to demand guarantees of educational rights and normalization of public education, held a rally in front of the Seoul Government Complex this afternoon to report violations of teaching rights and demand countermeasures.
Today’s rally, which was held voluntarily by teachers rather than a specific teacher union or organization, gathered 30,000 people, including 1,900 teachers nationwide, the organizers estimated 30,000 and the police estimated 21,000.
A teacher who has been working as an elementary school teacher for 21 years in Gwangju Metropolitan City confessed her experience of attempting suicide after being reported for child abuse last year, and said, “Please revise the Child Abuse Punishment Act, which allows you to be removed from your position simply by reporting it.”
A high school teacher in Seoul also complained that ″Abusive language and insults to teachers are an act of killing a teacher’s personality and at the same time, they are also trampling on the dreams of students who will become teachers in the future.″
102 professors at Seoul National University of Education announced a statement for normalization of education, established an educational community human rights research institute in solidarity with universities of education and education nationwide, and announced that they would propose effective measures to restore teaching rights.
2023-07-29 10:25:01
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