Teachers’ Union Federation Press Release
At an elementary school located in Seocho-gu, Seoul, a teacher in his early 20s belonging to Seoi Elementary School made an extreme choice, and the police are investigating.
According to the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education on the 19th, teacher A (23) made an extreme choice on the morning of the 18th, the previous day, on the school campus where he works, and the school found it belatedly and reported it to the police.
No suicide note was found at the scene, and it was reported that no students witnessed the scene as Mr. A was found before the students started school.
Police are investigating the exact time and circumstances of death.
It is said that Mr. A is a new teacher whose first assignment was at this school, and that he was in charge of the first grade homeroom this year.
It is known that Mr. A was in charge of handling the issue of school violence (school violence) of a student in his class recently.
In this regard, the Federation of Teachers’ Union (Teachers’ Union) issued a statement on the 19th and said, “The teacher is known to have been in charge of the first grade homeroom and school violence, and there is an opinion that the school violence incident was the main cause of his death. It is circulating on social media. In this regard, we demand a thorough fact-finding and investigation without the sanctuary of the education authorities and the police.”
The teachers’ union referred to the elementary school where Mr. A worked as ‘S Elementary School’ with the English letter ‘S’ corresponding to the Korean consonant ‘ㅅ’.
In addition, online mentions are made of the claim that Mr. A suffered from parental complaints, and the suspicion that there were continuous malicious complaints from certain parents. This, too, is expected to be identified through fact-finding and investigation.
※ If you have troubles that are hard to talk about, such as depression, or if you have family or acquaintances who are experiencing these difficulties, you can call the suicide prevention hotline ☎1577-0199, the phone of hope ☎129, the phone of life ☎1588-9191, the youth phone ☎1388, etc. Consultation is available.
2023-07-19 11:33:41
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