January 31 that the principal of the respective school provide on-the-job education to the teacher
to more effectively deal with school violence cases.
Insufficient Protection for Victims of School Violence
A petition was filed concerning a teacher for failing to protect a victim of school violence
in middle school. When the victim requested help from the teacher of Wee Class (school
counseling system) for being bullied by some of his/her classmates, the teacher urged the
assailants to apologize to the victim saying that the victim's father is in a high-ranking position
in the military. The teacher also made the victim sit in a separate counseling room and had the
eight assailants go into the room one by one to have a conversation with and apologize to the
victim. In this process, the victim was forced to make apologies to the assailants.
First, we viewed that the teacher's method of attempting to make the assailants apologize
by highlighting the status of the victim's father is questionable as it clearly aims to pressure
them and that this method was likely to create hostility among the assailants and damage the
relationships between the victim and assailants to an irreparable extent.
Second, we concluded that the teacher failed to protect the victim's personal rights guaranteed
in Article 10 of the Constitution by making the victim engage in dialogue with the assailants in
an isolated space in the absence of the teacher without fully identifying whether the assailants
had the intention of apologizing and whether they were aware of their wrongdoing. As such, we
recommended on April 3 that the principal of the respective school provide on-the-job education
to the teacher about school violence counseling and children's rights.
Forcefully Mobilizing Students for Plays for Children
A petition was filed for the respective university for forcing all students in the Childcare
Department to prepare for a play for children for four hours a day from March to May every
year and make preparations even on weekends and holidays as the opening date draws near.
Although the university could seek optional measures such as providing incentives to those
student who voluntarily participate in the play and designating the preparation for the play as
a compulsory course, the university violated the principle of proportionality to minimize the
damage by forcing the students to take part in the play against their will; restricted their everyday
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