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

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/07/117_48888.html

lifeinkorea · Joined: 24 Jan 2009 Location: somewhere in China

I can understand that during the middle hours of the day, but early on and later on in the day will be hard to enforce this gem of an idea.

If a parent wants to attack a teacher, all they have to do then is wait until the teacher leaves school. A lot worse can happen off school grounds.

pkang0202 · Joined: 09 Mar 2007

OculisOrbis · Joined: 17 Jul 2006

would that also include random wandering sales people that just seem to regularly appear in the teachers room?

AgentM · Joined: 07 Jun 2009 Location: British Columbia, Canada

The law sounds like a good idea to me.

okokokok · Joined: 16 Jul 2009

After working at hagwons for a few years and now at an elementary school, I can't believe the parents roaming around the hallways. They have no business being there. I never saw parents at school back home. Just another example of the lack of boundaries in this country.

okayden223 · Joined: 05 Jun 2009 Location: Incheon

Yes! I remember coming into the office I shared with my co-teacher one day and she was sitting there talking with a woman who I had never seen before. My Korean is rudimentary at best so I had no idea what it was about. Eventually my co-teacher got up, took her purse and left. The other woman left soon after and about 10 minutes later my co-teacher came back into our office through a different door. She told me the woman was trying to sell her makeup. I can't believe there isn't already a law against that kind of solicitation. As for needing the law to prevent parents from attacking teachers...it's called ASSAULT...here's my take on how to stop that from happening. Arrest people who do it and send them to jail instead of bowing a bunch times and pretending like nothing happened for fear that the general populace might catch wind of things that they already know occur. I'm pretty sure parents who can't afford a private school are still going to send their kids to the free public one even if there are reports of parents getting hauled off for kicking teacher ass.

nfld_chingu · Joined: 29 Jun 2009

Does this actually happen often enough that there needs to be a bill passed???
I was often annoyed by parents, but never assaulted. Wow.

Demophobe · Joined: 17 May 2004

Mr. Pink · Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Location: China

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oldfatfarang · Joined: 19 May 2005 Location: On the road to somewhere.

Anyone who has taught in a K public school can understand why some parents would want to come to school and 'have a little talk' with a Korean teacher.

After seeing Korean teachers' institutionalised violence against defenceless children - I can't believe that there aren't more 'assaults' on teachers by parents.

Any teacher who beat the living bee-Jeusus out of a student in my country - would be glad to be taken away by the police - because if the kid's parents got hold of them, well ......................................................

andrewchon · Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:23 pm Post subject: parents keep off?

In the big city schools it is a good idea.

In my small rural elementary school deep inside mountains we need parents' help to run the school.

Milwaukiedave · Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Location: Goseong

I have to agree, it's a good idea. When I worked at a public school in Incheon one of the student's mother would come in regularly and yell at the principal and school staff and make a huge scene.

Not having any idea about what was going on, one day I walked into the main office (where the two vice-principles sit) and was shoved out of the office immediately by one of my co-teachers who explained something was going on and that I shouldn't be there. Later they explained the situation and said that the police were often called when this women came to the school. I asked if the women's kid was in any of my classes and I was told no.

If parents want to be on school grounds, they should sign into the office and respect the rules of the school.

Big Mac · Joined: 17 Sep 2005

I've been thinking for a while that the Korean education system has its priorities all wrong. The principals, "chiefs" and teachers are always considered to be more important than the kids.

Their reasons for passing this law proves my theory.

How about passing the law to protect the safety of the KIDS?

I'm pretty sure that's the main reason we don't let random strangers wander the halls of schools in Canada. The lack of security at the schools here amazes me. What if someone wanted to come in to the school and rape a kid? They could just walk right in and do it and no one would blink an eye.

Korean schools are not safe places for children. Until the education system gets its priorities right it's not going to change.