President Yoon Seok-yeol Takes Action to Strengthen Teaching Authority and Overhaul Student Human Rights Ordinances

President Yoon Seok-yeol Takes Steps to Strengthen Teaching Authority

President Yoon Seok-yeol Takes Steps to Empower Teachers

In a move to enhance teaching authority, President Yoon Seok-yeol has instructed the Ministry of Education to implement public notices and revise self-government ordinances. This decision comes in response to the recent incident involving an elementary school teacher in Seoul’s Seocho-gu, who made an extreme choice. President Yoon made the announcement during a meeting of senior secretaries at the Presidential Office in Yongsan.

According to Presidential Office Spokesman Lee Do-woon, President Yoon emphasized the importance of promptly aligning the Ministry of Education with the revised Elementary and Secondary Education Act and Enforcement Order. Recognizing the Ministry’s role as a field-specific guide, President Yoon further directed them to consult with political parties and local governments in order to address any unreasonable self-government ordinances that infringe upon teaching rights.

Government Aims to Address Teaching Authority Through Student Human Rights Ordinance

The government has revealed its intention to address the issue by revising student human rights ordinances. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education Lee Joo-ho, on the 21st, announced plans to overhaul these ordinances. He highlighted the need to balance students’ human rights with teaching rights, as current emphasis on students’ rights can undermine the classroom environment. This initiative aims to strengthen both the human rights and teaching rights of students.

On the 21st, President Seok-Yeol Yoon moves to the meeting place after awarding medals to former Supreme Court justices Jae-Yeon Cho and Jung-Hwa Park at the Presidential Office in Yongsan. Correspondent Kim Chang-gil

On the 24th, President Yoon Seok-yeol ordered the Ministry of Education to enact public notices and amend self-government ordinances in connection with strengthening teaching authority. It appears to be an extension of the recent discussion on overhauling the system to strengthen teachers’ authority following the case of the extreme choice of an elementary school teacher in Seocho-gu, Seoul.

President Yoon ordered this at a meeting of senior secretaries held at the Presidential Office in Yongsan this morning, said Presidential Office Spokesman Lee Do-woon in a written briefing.

President Yoon said, “Since the revision of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and Enforcement Order, which was adopted by the Korean government and promoted as a national task to strengthen the authority of teachers, was recently completed, the Ministry of Education, which is a specific guide for the field, should be prepared promptly.” President Yoon then ordered, “Consult with the party and local governments to simultaneously promote the revision of unreasonable self-government ordinances that violate teaching rights.”

The government reveals its intention to resolve this case by linking it to the student human rights ordinance. On the 21st, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education Lee Joo-ho announced that he would push for an overhaul of student human rights ordinances, saying, “As students’ human rights are overemphasized and prioritized in schools, teachers’ teaching rights fall to the ground and classrooms collapse.” Attention is drawn to the fact that this is a prescription for strengthening the human rights and teaching rights of students as measure zero.

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