The bereaved family of a 23-year-old junior elementary school teacher who took her own life last week released part of her diary indicating that she had struggled with too much work and an unruly student on Tuesday, amid the ongoing investigation into the circumstances surrounding her death. “After going to work on Monday, I was bombarded with an immense workload and chaos caused by a student. I just wanted to .
Amid growing concerns over recent cases of teacher abuse by students and parents, the government announced Monday that it would revise a student rights ordinance to safeguard teachers’ rights and enhance their authority in classrooms. The ordinance adopted in 2011 for schools in Gyeonggi Province and in 2012 in Seoul by progressive education superintendents is a set of legally binding guidelines that bans.