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SEOUL - On a morning earlier this year, elementary school teacher Kang Hyun Ju, 29, woke up with a sudden paralysis, unable to move her body.
The spotlight has been cast on the mental health crisis of South Korean teachers, following the death ofelementary school in Gangnam on July 18, after reportedly suffering months of bullying and pressure from a student’s parent. Earlier in July, two days after the news of the suicide, Dr Kim had led the Korean Neuropsychiatric Association in issuing a strongly-worded statement calling for an urgent need to set up an institutional mechanism to provide support to teachers and protect them from abuse.
In July, a third-grade student at a Busan elementary school hit and kicked a female teacher in her face and body and could only be stopped after other teachers intervened.A special needs teacher wrote in an online forum that she had a student who would frequently attack her by grabbing her hair and slamming her head against the desk.
On the online community platform of Indischool, more than 2,000 stories have been shared by teachers in just three days. The child’s parent had hid a recorder in his clothes, and spliced recordings of the teacher scolding the child. The parent lodged the complaint a day after arranging for the child’s transfer to another school.“It is not so much about the money she had to spend on legal fees, it is not about the lack of support from the school or education ministry, it is about the teacher’s mental health.
It is said to be the largest-ever gathering of teachers in Korea. The teachers had come from all over Korea on buses and even two planes from Jeju. The scale of the rally and rising tensions over the weekend led to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education Lee Ju-ho changing tack and adopting a softer stance toward a separate group of teachers staging a walk-out on Sept 4, dubbed “A Day to Pause Public Education”.
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