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fromtheuk · Joined: 31 Mar 2007

Well, how fair is it when someone advises people to not touch their students, to be then accused of being a potential kiddie abuser, simply for condemning abuse in the first place?!!

Some posters on this forum are totally crazy.

Yes, I hear the law here is unfair, but if you avoid all people like the plague, it's hard to make allegations against you.

bacasper · Joined: 26 Mar 2007

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Typhoon · Joined: 29 May 2007 Location: Daejeon

And rightfully so. The police have been crap for the 8 years I have been here. It is about time someone is going to try to make them do their damn jobs. The sad thing is that if the police had been doing their job all along the need for such a heavy handed law would probably not be needed. The problem is that the police rarely catch people who sexually abuse kids so when they do people/the gov't want to make sure they don't get out.

I have a daughter and I have to say the law makes me happy. I like knowing that people who sexually abuse kids are going to be put away for a long time. I would be happier knowing that for every day of their sentence they would have to have their *beep* electrically shocked for no less than two hours a day, but that would be over the line.

As a teacher it does frighten me that a false accusation could be a huge problem of me, but in the end I would rather have the law in place. Protection for kids is more important than protection for teachers. We just have to make sure we are as careful as possible and that we learn how to protect ourselves against false accusations.

Typhoon · Joined: 29 May 2007 Location: Daejeon

funny test-i-cles are beeped out by the swear filter. *beep* is not a bad word is it???

nicholas_chiasson · Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Location: Samcheok

I do think this is why we EPIK teachers get the 'no alone time in a classroom without a Korean Teacher.' I myself prefer it. How can you make a 23 year old 'discipline' a 15 year old girl? Really if I ask her nicely to read a page, and she says 'no' what is left? Just one more reason I don't want to work hogwons...

asylum seeker · Joined: 22 Jul 2007 Location: On your computer screen.

kentucker4 · Joined: 03 Sep 2007 Location: Georgia

This is scary as shit. I could see a little Korean doing this. They are so freakin overemotional...some of my kids are capable of doing anything.

IncognitoHFX · Joined: 06 May 2007 Location: Yeongtong, Suwon

What's scary is that even my youngest kids know what a "pervert" is. Which means they're quite able to manipulate someone into believing they were touched when they weren't only to get attention. It could potentially destroy an innocent person's reputation, even if proven innocent. All at the whim of a child.

I didn't know what a pervert was until I was in Grade six or so. I have students who are seven years old who were referring to the child murderer from Anyang as a "Pyeontae", which is scary on two counts: they actually know what happened (they're way too young to understand it so their parents shouldn't tell them IMHO), and secondly, they actually have a vague idea of what a "pervert" is.

Children need to be ignorant because they're children. It's part of the process. People need to quit cramming their heads with stuff they aren't ready to understand. That's why I don't let my younger kids talk about the Anyang murderer in my class, or anything related to it.