Gyeonggi Office of Education Strengthens Measures to Prevent School Violence

Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education

The Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education is significantly strengthening measures to prevent school violence, including the expansion of the ‘School Violence Zero Center.’

First, the Office of Education will operate the ‘Creating Our School Character Education Brand’ program to practice character education linked with families and conduct character education connected to the curriculum.

Additionally, considering the increasing trend of school violence during school hours, they will operate the Life Education Council and district-based Life Education Councils.

In particular, schools will prevent school violence by implementing school culture responsibility agreements and student social-emotional programs, and will also promote excellent cases of life education and student-led practice projects.

The Office of Education will also expand the operation of the ‘Reconciliation Mediation Committee.’ Currently, 892 mediation committee members are active across 25 education support offices in the province. As of September, a total of 1,044 cases were submitted to the Reconciliation Mediation Committee, with 775 cases (74.2%) resolved through reconciliation between parties.

Next year, the Office of Education plans to enhance the capabilities of mediation committee members by expanding the discovery of competent mediators and will proceed with dismissal procedures if mediation activities are insufficient.

Also, the ‘School Violence Zero Center,’ which was piloted this year in two education support offices, will be expanded to all education support offices next year. The center provides one-stop support for ▲handling school violence cases ▲healing support for victimized students ▲relationship restoration ▲legal services.

Meanwhile, according to the results of the ‘2023 First School Violence Survey (Complete Survey)’ conducted nationwide by Gyeonggi Province and other metropolitan and provincial offices of education from April 10 to May 10 targeting students from 4th grade in elementary school to 3rd grade in high school, the victim response rate was 1.9%, an increase of 0.4 percentage points compared to last year. This is the same level as the national average of 1.9%.

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.