Events to commemorate deceased elementary school teachers were held across the country a few days ago, but in Daejeon, an elementary school teacher in his 40s passed away again. The bereaved family claimed that the deceased had been suffering from malicious complaints from parents for four years.
TJB reporter Kim Cheol-jin covered the story.
<Reporter> Mr.
A, a teacher at an elementary school in Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, was found making an extreme choice at his home around 9:30 pm on the 5th.
Mr. A was immediately taken to the hospital and received treatment, but he eventually died last night (the 7th).
It is in front of the elementary school where the deceased worked.
The wreaths of sympathy that were increasing in real time were filled with anger about the current situation and condolences for the deceased teacher.
The bereaved family and fellow teachers said that Mr. A, a teacher with 20 years of experience, suffered from malicious complaints from parents and complained of mental pain while taking over as a first-grade homeroom teacher in 2019.
He received strong protests for humiliating his classmates by pointing out children who screamed during class or lay down in the cafeteria.
[Park So-young/Daejeon Teachers’ Union Policy Director메이저놀이터: I know there have been many complaints to the principal’s office or the Office of Education asking, “Why are you humiliating our children?”] Some parents even reported Teacher A to the police on charges of child abuse
.
Although the case was acquitted of charges after a year, the parents are known to have filed continuous complaints for four years, saying they did not want to encounter Teacher A.
[Bereaved family: Why did you put that teacher in the same hallway as my child when you could have bumped into him in the hallway? Move somewhere else right now… .]
The bereaved family said that Mr. A, who had been receiving psychiatric treatment since the incident, had a more difficult time following the death of a teacher at Seoi Elementary School in Seoul last July.