The teacher suffered from months of bullying and pressure at the hands of a parent. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SEOUL - A debate over teachers’ rights in South Korea was raised on Thursday, after an elementary school teacher was found to have taken her own life in her classroom amid rumours of bullying by a student’s parents.
The school, however, denied that any bullying of the teacher had occurred via a statement on Thursday, adding that it would cooperate with the police investigation. The country has seen a stark increase in the number of teachers being physically assaulted or attacked by students and parents, with a total of 1,133 teachers having been subject to such harassment between 2018 and 2022, according to data released by the Ministry of Education. Also, the annual number of reported cases of students breaching the rights of teachers in classrooms surpassed 2,000 last year.
As teachers were encouraged to adopt a gentler approach towards students, students and parents were given more of a say in school affairs, leading to a rise in cases of violence against teachers, according to teachers’ associations and observers. The occupation that has long been envied as a “respected job for life” has now become a nightmare for many.
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