Teachers at South Korea they are going to participate en masse in a march and refuse to work today, demanding the protection of their rights and expressing their protest against the harassment they are suffering from, which led as their colleagues emphasize to kill themselves.
Public school faculty protests about aggressive behaviors towards him by parents and students, especially reports of abuse when punishing children, have intensified since a young teacher was found dead in July. According to a report by the South Korean national news agency Yonhap, there were two more suicides of teachers last week.
Thousands of teachers had warned at the weekend that they would take a day off today in protest. Government officials and school boards made desperate last-minute efforts to avoid a shutdown of schools today and vowed to take legal action to protect teachers.
The number of teachers who did not go to work today is not clear, but according to Yonap and other media, many schools were expected to close as teaching staff made it clear they were not going to work.
The authorities explained that this collective action is illegal and warned that disciplinary measures will be taken. The national union of South Korean teachers had no involvement in organizing today’s protests, according to the organization that called the demonstration, as reported by Reuters and relayed by the Athens News Agency.
Changes must be made so that “not one and not a single teacher will end up committing suicide”, emphasized the organizers of the mobilization.
President Yun Seok-geil today ordered his administration officials and officials to listen to teachers’ demands and work to protect their rights, according to a statement from his office.
In July, a primary school teacher was found dead – believed to have committed suicide – due to stress caused by a parent protesting her over a dispute between students.
Faculty members across the country have been participating in vigils and demonstrations every weekend since to mourn her death. The protests culminated on Saturday, when 200,000 teachers gathered near the parliament in Seoul.
At least 20,000 teachers are expected to march on the South Korean parliament today, organizers said.
In the last six years, more than a hundred members of the teaching staff have committed suicide in South Korea. 57 taught in primary schools, according to official data.
South Korea has the highest suicide rate among developed nations, according to figures from the World Health Organization and the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development): it exceeds 20 per 100,000 inhabitants.
The Ministry of Education has pledged to prevent cases of teachers being punished for otherwise legitimate educational activities and to take initiatives to improve communication between teaching staff and parents.
Under the government plan, teachers will have the right to block calls from parents on their personal numbers, among other things.
The number of complaints of child abuse has increased in recent years as “excessive” emphasis was placed on the rights of students, while those of teaching staff “were not respected”, the Ministry of Education said in a press release. He promised to “support” it, so that he “can focus on his teaching work” undisturbed, “freed” from concerns that they will deal with allegations of child abuse “indiscriminately”.
Source: News Beast
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