{"id":58177,"date":"2023-09-08T10:05:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T01:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/08\/south-korea-teacher-protest-why-are-teachers-protesting"},"modified":"2023-09-08T10:05:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T01:05:30","slug":"abused-traumatised-and-powerless-south-koreas-teachers-on-why-they-are-protesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58177","title":{"rendered":"Abused, traumatised and powerless: South Korea\u2019s teachers on why they are protesting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teachers recount the emotional toll of being harassed by parents and dragged through child abuse proceedings over everyday classroom matters<\/p>\n<p>Park Seo-yoon* says South Korea\u2019s teachers know why a young primary school colleague killed herself after being subjected to abuse from parents. \u201cWe\u2019ve all had similar struggles,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve all received late-night calls from parents accusing us of disrespecting their precious children because they were disciplined for not participating in class,\u201d says the elementary school teacher. \u201cWe\u2019ve had parents yell at us for not providing extra materials to students who didn\u2019t bring their own, insisting that students who don\u2019t do their homework shouldn\u2019t be punished, or complaining about giving three sentences of praise to one student but only two to the other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/08\/south-korea-teacher-protest-why-are-teachers-protesting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teachers recount the emotional toll of being harassed by parents and dragged through child abuse proceedings over everyday classroom mattersPark Seo-yoon* says South Korea\u2019s teachers know why a young primary school colleague killed herself after being &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2929,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2929"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58178,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58177\/revisions\/58178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}