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wylies99
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 Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2013 6:57 pm Post subject: More teachers become sex criminals, 'dangerous schools' |
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2013/08/511_141597.html
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More teachers become sex criminals, create 'dangerous schools' By Ko Dong-hwan
Korea is witnessing an increase in teachers/professors-turn-sex criminals.
According to statistics released by the Ministry of Education and the Information Publication Center for Transparent Society on Aug. 22, the number of teachers incriminated for sexual crimes from 2010 to May 2013 was 160. This is triple that from 2007 to 2009.
But another statistic showed that those among the criminals who received as heavy a punishment as dismissal from their tenure only accounted for 58 cases, or 32.5 percent of the total.
Such inadequate enforcement of punishment can be explained by the fact that while the teacher employment manual requires applicants to submit criminal background check reports, those holding tenure in schools can remain on the podium unless penalized with imprisonment or more severe penalties.
Ko Yu-kyung, a counselor from Parent Committee for True Education, expressed concern that schools that are supposed to protect students have become a hive of danger. The schools offer teachers an annual session of sex crime-preventive classes, which is all the counter-measure teachers receive.
Lee Chang-han, a professor of the Police Administration program of Dongguk University, said, “Teachers commit sex crimes because they think they can control the whole aftermath using their authority.” Lee also pointed out their tendency to think that their crime will remain uncovered as another cause of the crimes.
An associate from Korean Womenlink emphasized a need for new educational direction, inculcating that victims of sex crimes shouldn’t be shameful or keep quiet but instead take initiatives in expressing their thoughts.
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12ax7
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| Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2013 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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| How about teachers who are physically and verbally abusive to their students? Half of the teachers my kid has had would fall within that group. |
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andrewchon
Joined: 16 Nov 2008
Location: Back in Oz. Living in ISIS Aust.
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| Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2013 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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| 12ax7 wrote: |
| How about teachers who are physically and verbally abusive to their students? Half of the teachers my kid has had would fall within that group. |
They will be handled American style: it's the kid's fault for driving his teacher crazy. Then somebody will upload a video of the teacher going ape. A reporter hungry for a news item will do an exclusive expose, front page stuff. FOX will blame the teacher, teacher's union, the school, bloated bureaucracy, and Obama. Right wing christians will demand prayers at school, teaching of intelligent design, and blame Obama. Liberals will blame the parents. and Obama. End of news cycle. Abusive teachers? So passé.  |
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Weigookin74
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| Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2013 7:55 am Post subject: |
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| Well, if I ever walked in on a teacher, foriegn or Korean, feeling a kid up, my boot would be up their @$$ (teacher). Consequences, be darned! |
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Los Angeloser
Joined: 26 Aug 2010
Location: Korea
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 5:33 am Post subject: |
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My guess is that it isn't that more teachers are becoming sex-criminals, but
that there are more cases where these things are being reported now.
In the past, I suspect a lot of these cases were just brushed aside and
ignored. |
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Skippy
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Daejeon
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| Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 5:39 am Post subject: |
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| some waygug-in wrote: |
My guess is that it isn't that more teachers are becoming sex-criminals, but
that there are more cases where these things are being reported now.
In the past, I suspect a lot of these cases were just brushed aside and
ignored. |
or blamed on the foreign teachers. I bet there is an active search for someone to blame. |
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goreality
Joined: 09 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2013 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Skippy wrote: |
| some waygug-in wrote: |
My guess is that it isn't that more teachers are becoming sex-criminals, but
that there are more cases where these things are being reported now.
In the past, I suspect a lot of these cases were just brushed aside and
ignored. |
or blamed on the foreign teachers. I bet there is an active search for someone to blame. |
I also think it was more of a face saving, cash grabbing thing before society decided that wasn't the solution.
As for the foreigner thing, if this was ever the case, Korean pedos trying to blame it on foreigner pedos has now backfired. The general population has now been convinced it's a problem that requires drastic solutions no matter the race or citizenship status of the person doing the crime. Although it is every Korean pedo hunter dreams to catch a foreigner, the odds are stack against them here with over 95% of teachers being Korean, and foreigners knowing they are watched and even screened more carefully. |
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