Daegu Seobu Office of Education Wins Grand Prize in Ministry of Education's 'School Dropout Prevention Case Contest'

4 Awards in 3 Categories at the Ministry of Education's Academic Dropout Prevention Best Practices Contest

Daegu Western Education Support Office 2nd Western Wee Center specialist counselor Kim Dasol exchanging greetings with an official from the city education office regarding the 'Outstanding Case of Dropout Prevention' award.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Dongwook Park] Daegu Metropolitan Office of Education announced on the 31st that it won 4 awards in 3 categories at the Ministry of Education's '2020 Academic Dropout Prevention Best Practices Contest.'

In the external education institution category, the 2nd Wee Center of the Western Education Support Office received the Grand Prize for its operation case of the 'Paired Friend, Companion (伴侶) Diary Program,' recognized as the best program in that category.

The DoBe classroom within the Yeongnam Wee Center, which opened this year as a healing-type alternative education consignment institution for middle school students, also had the honor of winning the Encouragement Award in the same category.

Gyeongbuk Girls' Commercial High School won the Excellence Award in the student category by submitting a moving story of overcoming academic dropout titled 'So Today, I Decided to Live for Myself,' and Daegu Ipseok Elementary School won an award in the school's alternative classroom UCC category, challenging for the first time this year.

The award ceremony for the '2020 Academic Dropout Prevention Best Practices Contest' was held non-face-to-face on the afternoon of the 30th using the online platform Zoom due to the spread of COVID-19.

So far, the Daegu Metropolitan Office of Education has been operating an academic dropout reflection system centered on elementary, middle, and high schools and six Wee Centers of the Education Support Office for students at risk of academic dropout. This year, efforts are expanding by operating external consignment programs for academic dropout in connection with three local universities (Daekyung University, Suseong University, Yeungjin College).

Superintendent Eunhee Kang expressed, "I sincerely salute the frontline school teachers and external education institution staff who have continuously worked hard to prevent academic dropout despite the difficult situation in the education field caused by the outbreak of COVID-19," and encouraged, "I wholeheartedly support the students who are struggling to overcome difficult academic dropout situations even at this moment."

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