2023-09-04 10:36:33
On the 4th, the 49th anniversary of the death of an elementary school teacher in Seocho-gu, Seoul, elementary, middle and high school teachers in Busan, who participated in a memorial meeting held at the Busan Metropolitan Office of Education, are urging fundamental measures to protect teacher rights. Reporter Kim Kwang-soo
While teachers’ rallies across the country continued, incumbent teachers held a rallies for the first time in Busan. Elementary, middle, and high school teachers in Busan held a memorial rally for elementary school teachers in Seocho-gu from 5:00 to 7:00 pm on the 4th at the Busan Metropolitan Office of Education. The organizers, identified as ‘Busan teachers’, reported the rally to the police and said that regarding 1,000 people were expected, but in the middle of the rally, they claimed that there were more than 2,500 people. After a large-scale rally was held in connection with the establishment of the National Teachers and Education Workers’ Union (KTU) in 1989, it was recorded as the largest number of on-site teachers among the rallies held in Busan demanding resolution of pending educational problems.
Elementary school students and teachers pay their respects at the temporary incense burner for elementary school teachers in Seocho-gu, Seoul, prepared by the Busan Metropolitan Office of Education on the 4th. Reporter Kim Kwang-soo
Teachers gathered at the Busan Metropolitan Office of Education wearing black following finishing class or taking sick leave or annual leave that day. At the rally held under the title of ‘Beyond Sorrow, to Change!’, teachers took to the podium one following another and complained regarding the terrible reality of education in which teaching rights were violated. An elementary school teacher said, “According to the Busan Metropolitan Office of Education’s field experience learning manual, we conducted a survey asking regarding lodging-type experiential learning. However, the parents asked, ‘Can’t you go to the accommodation type experience learning without 80% consent?’ She came to the school, shouted at the principal, and even filed a complaint in the national newspaper,” she cried. A high school teacher said, “In 2014, I was in charge of the first year of high school, and I drank twice without knowing that my student had peed in my tumbler. She demanded a police investigation, but she was told that unless she was 16, she was not given a urine sample because she didn’t get consent, which is supposed to be parental consent, and eventually went overboard. I was luckier than Seocho-gu teachers. I feel betrayed and hopeless by the church that does not protect teachers. Superintendents of education and others must come up with measures to protect teachers.” Like this, whenever a colleague cried and accused the scene, attendees stole tears, and some teachers sobbed.
On the 4th, the 49th anniversary of the death of an elementary school teacher in Seocho-gu, Seoul, elementary, middle and high school teachers in Busan, who participated in a memorial meeting held at the Busan Metropolitan Office of Education, are urging fundamental measures to protect teacher rights. Reporter Kim Kwang-soo
On this day, teachers demanded revision of child-related laws to block the infringement of teaching rights. A 21-year-old elementary school teacher who took sick leave and attended the rally said, “His junior teacher grabbed his hand and asked for strength, so he participated. She is often accused of violating the Child Welfare Act when she takes a child to the school office to discipline a misbehaving child. In this situation, it is difficult to properly reconcile or take appropriate measures even if children fight with each other. In order to protect the teaching authority, related laws such as the Child Welfare Act must be amended,” he raised his voice. Reporter Kim Kwang-soo [email protected]
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