A Peaceful Educational Community Created Through Parent Participation

Ulsan Office of Education Holds Roundtable Discussion with Parent Association Presidents

The Ulsan Metropolitan Office of Education supports strengthening parental capabilities to enhance mutual respect among educational stakeholders and foster a culture of parental participation in education.

Recently, the Ulsan Office of Education held a parental roundtable discussion on the topic of "The Role of Parent Associations in Cases of Malicious Parental Complaints," on the 12th and 15th at the Oesol Meeting Room.

Out of 246 parent association presidents from elementary, middle, high, special, and various schools, 212 (86%) attended the discussion.

The participants communicated and shared cases regarding ways for parents to participate in a peaceful educational community.

As a result of the discussion, the most common opinion, at 40.5%, was to mediate malicious complaints through the parent association by recruiting parent experts and operating dedicated channels such as a planning team (TF team), monitoring team, and complaint booths.

The second most frequent opinion, at 18%, was about "parent education," proposing lifecycle-based and child-characteristic-based parent education, as well as strengthening character, cultural, and teacher authority education to help shift parental perceptions.

The third most common opinion, at 16%, was about "communication," including holding meetings and forums among students, parents, and schools, and regular gatherings among parents.

Following that, opinions on "school participation" (8%) emphasized operating programs and events involving the education office, schools, parents, and teachers together to build support systems through mutual understanding and communication.

Ulsan Office of Education.

In December 2020, the Ulsan Metropolitan Office of Education enacted the "Ordinance on the Establishment and Operation of School Parent Associations in Ulsan," providing a legal foundation for parents to participate in school educational activities.

They are promoting various projects such as operating parent associations at individual schools, supporting school participation expenses for parents, establishing parent association rooms, providing counseling (consulting) and networking for parent associations, and parent education.

This year, they produced and distributed in March a "Parent Education Participation Casebook" featuring exemplary cases of parent association operations at individual schools. They also conducted training for 357 school administrators and staff to build cooperative relationships between schools and parents.

Superintendent Cheon Chang-su stated, "We will do our best to reflect the valuable opinions from this parental roundtable discussion in the parent association projects at individual schools. We will strive to help parents and schools work together to address and solve difficulties experienced at schools."

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