If Transferred or Expelled for Disrupting Class or Violating Teacher Authority, It Will Be Recorded in the Student Record

Ministry of Education Announces Measures to Strengthen Prevention and Response to Educational Activity Disruptions

[Asia Economy Reporter Yoo Byung-don] From now on, students who disrupt classes and infringe on teachers' educational activities, resulting in disciplinary actions such as transfer or expulsion, will have these details recorded in their school life records (student records).

On the 27th, the Ministry of Education announced the "Measures to Prevent and Strengthen Response to Infringement of Educational Activities," which centers on this content.

In schools, while measures to protect individual students' human rights have been strengthened, there has been ongoing criticism that measures to guarantee the learning rights of other students and the human rights of teachers when a specific student disrupts a teacher's legitimate educational activities have been insufficient.

Accordingly, the Ministry of Education decided that students who receive "significant disciplinary actions" for infringing on educational activities will have these disciplinary details explicitly noted in their student records.

Specific details will be finalized during the revision of related enforcement ordinances, but among the seven possible measures that the Teacher Rights Protection Committee can impose?△ school service △ community service △ special education △ suspension of attendance △ class transfer △ school transfer △ expulsion?the most serious measures, transfer or expulsion, are highly likely to be recorded in the student records.

However, the Ministry of Education believes that further consultation is needed on whether to include suspension of attendance (45.1%), which accounts for about half of the disciplinary actions related to teacher rights infringement.

Considering the time required for revising the enforcement ordinance, it is expected that these measures will be applied in schools starting from the 2024 academic year rather than next year.

The Ministry of Education will protect affected teachers by immediately separating offending students from teachers and expanding compensation for teachers' damages and legal support.

Until now, teachers often took special leave to avoid students, but to guarantee the learning rights of other students, the offending students will be separated instead.

Students who receive disciplinary actions of suspension of attendance or higher will undergo special education together with their parents, and if they fail to comply, additional disciplinary measures will be possible.

The Teacher Rights Protection Committee, currently established in schools and city/provincial education offices, will also be established in education support offices, and the Teacher Healing Support Center will be expanded and reorganized into the "Educational Activity Protection Center."

Lee Ju-ho, Deputy Prime Minister for Social Affairs and Minister of Education, said, "I hope conditions will be created so that teachers can fully concentrate on innovating classes," and added, "We will actively support the legislative process in the National Assembly to ensure that the contents included in the measures are promptly legislated."

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