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Real Reality · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

Teachers Beaten
By Kang Shin-who, Korea Times (June 2, 2008)
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/06/117_25176.html

bejarano-korea · Joined: 13 Dec 2006

They try that with me and I will Mike Tyson (pre 1990) their ass! Evil or Very Mad

agoodmouse · Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Location: Anyang

I wonder how the sentencing will turn out.

kprrok · Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Location: KC

SuperHero · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Location: Superhero Hideout

gangpae · Joined: 03 Sep 2007 Location: Busan

Please ignore any previous advice about shin kicking and toe stomping.

crescent · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Location: yes.

I had an incident where a father showed up and entered my class to settle a pre-existing problem between his son and another boy.
The father verbally assaulted the boy (not his son) with profanities and looked as if h was about to physically strike him.

I intervened, by putting myself between him and the boy , and told him to leave the classroom. As I held my ground he began to brush up against me.

He spent his energy and left. Later I learned he threatened to sue me for assault because I "restrained him".

Children shouldn't be allowed to breed.

merkurix · Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Location: Not far from the deep end.

I never witnessed assaults on teachers here in Korea, but I did work in a school in the states where a disgruntled parent decked an English teacher in my department for failing his sweet little boy. He had four facial fractures and took four weeks to recover. The dad went to jail. After that incident, I would always get a little nervous back in the states when parents requested a meeting with me regarding their kids' failing grades. But nothing happened thankfully. Nothing here in Korea either--5 years and running. This is one of those nice moments where for what it is worth, the language barrier between teachers and parents is actually a blessing in that respect.

bassexpander · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

genezorm · Joined: 01 Jul 2007 Location: Mokpo

good on the student, sometimes they need to stick up for themselves

just yesterday, i was sitting in the teachers office alone, the teacher next to brings a high school student in the teacher's room. he tells him to get down on his knees. he starts screaming profanity at the kid, and slaps him in the face. the kid fell to the ground, and the teacher then kicked (or maybe kneed - i'm not sure the kid in the abdomen) the kid again falls to the ground, the teacher screams at him to get up and gives him a few more kicks to the abdomen for good measure....

two other teachers walked in while this guy was going ape shit on the kid, and sat down at their desks like nothing was going on....

i would have liked to see the student give the old man a taste of his own medicine

KimchiExplosion · Joined: 01 Jul 2007 Location: Nowhere near Seoul

bacasper · Joined: 26 Mar 2007

When you consider school shootings in the states barely make the news anymore, this is (sadly) just ho-hum.

TheUrbanMyth · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Location: Retired

genezorm · Joined: 01 Jul 2007 Location: Mokpo

i wasn't referring to this particular case, but i was thinking about when a teacher beats on a student, sometimes i hope the student is thinking "this dude maybe a teacher, but that does not give him the right to beat me, i am probably stronger than him, i can take him"

if you have seen the movie chingu, i liked what jang dong gun's character did in the high school

pkang0202 · Joined: 09 Mar 2007