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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
Location: Jeollanam-do
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 Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 3:45 am Post subject: KT: Student Attemps Suicide After Teacher's Beating |
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Students at a high school in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province, stood in the pouring rain on the playground. They refused to attend class and called for an apology from a teacher, after one of their female schoolmates attempted suicide following corporal punishment and an insult from the teacher.
Police booked the 44-year-old teacher, whose name was not disclosed, without physical detention for violence.
Some 80 students of the school refused to attend lectures and staged a protest in the middle of the school playground Wednesday morning, demanding the teacher make an open apology and the school reveal the truth.
The move came a day after the 16-year-old girl was found unconscious in her room after taking 10 nervine pills. Her mother, Lee, transferred her to a hospital, and the girl was revived after having her stomach pumped.
In a written note she said that other teachers denounced her as a liar about the incident in which the teacher hit her about a month ago.
According to the mother, the teacher took the girl to the restroom and slapped her on the cheek and kicked her for about an hour because the girl was asleep during class on April 14. |
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/05/117_24901.html
Just a reminder to all you dangerous foreign teachers, get those criminal background checks in ASAP. |
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Whistleblower
Joined: 03 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 4:27 am Post subject: |
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What about the other way round? A group of students beating a teacher and the school trying to cover that up? Again double standards if you ask me.
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Elementary School Pupil Assaults Female Teacher
By Kang Shin-who
Staff Reporter
An elementary school student struck his female teacher in front of other students and the school seemingly attempted to cover up the incident.
On May 22, a 12-year-old student at Sinjeong Elementary School in western Seoul punched his teacher in the face with his fist several times in front of a group of classmates, according to witnesses and parents. The teacher, 32, received injuries around her mouth and had to have several stitches.
The incident began following a survey on school bullying with two boys writing obscene comments about the teacher on their survey sheets. After reading the comments, the teacher approached the two students and reprimanded them during clean up time after class.
As they showed no signs of apologizing, the teacher ordered the two students to prostrate themselves on the classroom floor. They disobeyed her so she tried to hit one of them with a rod. One of the students grabbed her arm and punched her.
Apparently shocked by the incident, the teacher could not attend classes over the next several days.
However, the school is denying the assault. School principal Lee Soon-kwon told reporters that the teacher received the injury accidentally in the process of the student attempting to block himself from being struck with the yardstick. He said the school reported the incident to the regional education office.
Despite the denial, the school plans to transfer the two students to other schools at the request of their parents.
Asked why the students insulted their teacher on the survey papers, Lee said he could not ask them, as they are now too depressed to answer questions about the incident.
``They are in their adolescent period and very sensitive to stress and have difficulty controlling themselves. They feel very guilty and their parents have already apologized to the teacher,�� he said.
To find out exactly what happened at the class, the Korean Federation of Teachers' Association is investigating the case and plans to announce an official statement later.
``The number of assaults against teachers has doubled over the last five years. Apart from this case, there are no proper penalties against students, so we will ask the National Assembly to set up a law to protect the education activities of teachers,�� said Kim Dong-seok, a spokesperson for the teachers� association.
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DRAMA OVERKILL
Joined: 12 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 4:31 am Post subject: |
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| Sounds like the brats in the second story need a taste of what was handed out in the first story. |
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Hanson
Joined: 20 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 5:48 am Post subject: |
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| Sounds like the brats in the second story need a taste of what was handed out in the first story. |
Yeah, but then someone might pipe up and say "that's only for savages"...  |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 6:19 am Post subject: |
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| They feel very guilty and their parents have already apologized to the teacher,�� he said. |
No, they are depressed because when they got home they were unable to grab the rod and punch their fathers in the face, and instead received the beating of their lives
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| Apart from this case, there are no proper penalties against students |
Well, it's long past time to start expelling problem students. Maybe a better idea would be to send them to boot camp to finish their education. |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 7:11 am Post subject: |
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I don't teach in a public school, but the elementary school students I speak to say abuse is still very prevalent in the classroom (teacher on student).
Why doesn't the Federation of Teachers look at the main cause of student on teacher violence, which is teacher on student violence? |
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Justin Kimberlake
Joined: 20 May 2008
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 7:47 am Post subject: |
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Poetic Justice?
Students have realized that standing up to "authority" will result in them being heard.
THANK YOU US BEEF PROTESTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hahahaha |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 3:22 pm Post subject: |
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following corporal punishment ... from the teacher.
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| the teacher took the girl to the restroom and slapped her on the cheek and kicked her for about an hour |
I think there's a difference between corporal punishment and abuse. It also sounds just a bit fishy. She slapped the kid around and kicked her 'for about an hour' in the toilets and no one did anything about it, but now 80 of them are staging a walkout protest? |
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DRAMA OVERKILL
Joined: 12 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Hanson wrote: |
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| Sounds like the brats in the second story need a taste of what was handed out in the first story. |
Yeah, but then someone might pipe up and say "that's only for savages"... |
Ok. If you get terribly disrespected by a dog, I think you should eat it. In that case it wouldn't be savage-like, it would merely be revenge. |
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Hanson
Joined: 20 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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| DRAMA OVERKILL wrote: |
| Hanson wrote: |
| DRAMA OVERKILL wrote: |
| Sounds like the brats in the second story need a taste of what was handed out in the first story. |
Yeah, but then someone might pipe up and say "that's only for savages"... |
Ok. If you get terribly disrespected by a dog, I think you should eat it. In that case it wouldn't be savage-like, it would merely be revenge. |
Finally! Some gray area!!!  |
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DRAMA OVERKILL
Joined: 12 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Hanson wrote: |
| DRAMA OVERKILL wrote: |
| Hanson wrote: |
| DRAMA OVERKILL wrote: |
| Sounds like the brats in the second story need a taste of what was handed out in the first story. |
Yeah, but then someone might pipe up and say "that's only for savages"... |
Ok. If you get terribly disrespected by a dog, I think you should eat it. In that case it wouldn't be savage-like, it would merely be revenge. |
Finally! Some gray area!!! |
It's more of an off-white with extremely subtle gray tones. |
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Ronald
Joined: 14 Feb 2007
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| NO, it sounds like rebel protesting to me. I commend them for standing up to these unfair teachers. The discipline here should be standardized. It's infair at all levels. SOME students get hit, other don't for the same offense. IT'S BULLSHIT. I was paddeled in grade school, but it was also standardized; teachers were trained. Some teacher here hit light, some hit HARD and their little sticks leave nasty marks. I've seen students get slapped by a man like a man. That's why parents stay at school. They don't trust these teacher's. Many Korean teachers are azz when it comes to discipline and fairness. |
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