"Predict First and Respond Proactively" ... Busan Metropolitan Office of Education Operates 'School Violence Prevention Weather Forecast Project'

Busan Metropolitan Office of Education.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Hwang Du-yeol] The Busan Metropolitan Office of Education is operating the ‘School Violence Prevention Weather Forecast Project,’ which predicts and prevents school violence in advance.

The project aims not only to focus on managing and resolving incidents of school violence after they occur but to take a step further by predicting the occurrence of school violence in advance and strengthening a proactive response system.

This will be carried out through strengthening routine preventive activities, fair and rational handling of cases based on fundamentals, fostering a zero-tolerance culture of school violence that emphasizes prevention and respect, and operating conflict recovery and relationship restoration programs that protect and heal.

The Office of Education compiles statistics and data on types of school violence occurring in schools across the Busan area.

Each month, the Office visually represents the types of school violence that show an increasing trend during specific periods as weather forecast images and provides this information to kindergartens, elementary, middle, high, and special schools.

The types include physical violence, verbal violence, extortion, coercion, ostracism, sexual violence, and cyber violence, totaling seven categories, and the weather forecast images include thunder and lightning, cloudy, partly cloudy, and clear.

Customized preventive education materials for each target group that can be easily used by individual schools, as well as example letters to parents on how to educate their children and how to respond to school violence, are also provided together.

Nam Su-jeong, Director of School Life Education at the Busan Metropolitan Office of Education, said, “The Office of Education will establish a foundation that allows schools and families to work together in a multidimensional way to predict and proactively respond to school violence before it occurs.”

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