Conservative candidate Cho Jeon-hyuk begins official campaign for Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education by-election
Candidate Cho Jeon-hyuk, who was selected as the single candidate by the conservative camp for the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education by-election to be held on the 16th of this month, began his official campaign on the 3rd. Before the ceremony at Gwanghwamun on this day, he visited Seoi Elementary School in Seocho-gu, Seoul. Last year, a second-year teacher died after suffering complaints from parents, raising the issue of violation of teaching rights to the surface. It is said that Candidate Cho was heartbroken because it was the school his second daughter graduated from.
Candidate Cho, who made ‘increasing academic ability’ as his first pledge, saying, “I will raise the academic ability of Seoul students, which fell during the 10-year term of former Superintendent Cho Hee-yeon,” believes that public education will be strengthened only when teaching authority is strengthened. In an interview with the Dong-A Ilbo conducted on the car from Seoi Elementary School to Gwanghwamun, Candidate Cho emphasized, “I will abolish the student human rights ordinance within this year, create an ordinance to separate students who disrupt classes, and collect cell phones when going to school.”
ㅡAfter the Seoi Elementary School incident last year, the government revised the Teaching Rights Protection Act, but the collapse of public education due to low teacher morale is serious.
“The Student Human Rights Ordinance, which was created to protect students’ human rights, has disrupted classrooms and classes. The Constitution also states, “All citizens have the right to education.” Students who do not have at least a basic level of academic ability cannot live in modern society. (Things guaranteed by the Student Human Rights Ordinance) The right to study, a basic right to life, has been violated in order to protect what is mistaken for a right when it is not a right. If elected, the first thing I will do is abolish the Student Human Rights Ordinance and enact the Student Rights and Obligations Ordinance and the Separation of Students Disrupting Class Ordinance. Abolition of the Student Human Rights Ordinance is possible this year. “The Supreme Court has accepted the application for a temporary injunction to suspend the execution of a lawsuit filed against the Seoul City Council by former Superintendent Cho Hee-yeon to confirm the invalidity of the re-enactment of the student human rights ordinance to abolish the ordinance. It can be withdrawn immediately.”
ㅡIn a situation where indiscriminate use of cell phones in schools is leading to violations of teaching rights and disruption of classes, the pledge to ‘return cell phones when attending school’ is attracting attention.
“France started a plan this year in some middle schools to collect cell phones upon entering school and return them upon dismissal, and will expand to all schools next year. Even in countries with a higher awareness of human rights than Korea, regulating mobile phones in schools is not a problem. Students must be taught a distinction between freedom and self-indulgence. In exceptional circumstances, such as when necessary for educational purposes, use will be permitted with teacher approval, but all cell phones will be removed from students after they arrive at school and returned to them upon dismissal. We also plan to ban the use of social networking services (SNS) at school.”
ㅡParental concerns are high as many students bring home the educational tablet PC ‘Divot’ distributed by the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education to use social media and YouTube.
“We plan to keep divots in schools. Divot is an abbreviation for ‘digital and friend’, and some parents call it ‘digital enemy’ or ‘digital enemy’. I think that parents’ request to not bring divots home is reasonable and should be reflected in policy. Even in developed countries, digital devices are used in schools for educational purposes and students do not take them anywhere. “This kind of policy is educational populism that calls for handing out education unconditionally.”
ㅡThere is a lot of interest from parents in the pledge to revive paper-based assessments in elementary schools.
“The leftist camp (candidate Geun-sik Jeong) says they are lining up children and that private education will flourish, but this is not an evaluation for that purpose. Rather, it is the opposite. Since the school does not evaluate children and they are not satisfied with public education, they go to an academy and pay money to take a level test. I believe that public education is an educational service, and the superintendent of education is the CEO of that business. The superintendent of education must provide evaluations to manage the overall quality of education in Seoul. Peter Drucker, a master of management, said, ‘You have to measure something to evaluate it, and you have to be evaluated to improve it.’ We will develop a diagnostic kit so that you can check your skills in each subject at home at any time. “We will communicate with the National Assembly to revise the current law and promote a comprehensive national-level academic achievement evaluation survey.” (Currently, in the elementary school curriculum, there is no term for paper-and-pencil evaluation, so regular exams such as midterm and final exams are not conducted. Formative evaluations and unit evaluations are conducted in various forms such as observation type and paper-pencil type by establishing a plan at each school. Further explanation is needed later on what kind of revival of paper-based assessment that Candidate Cho is talking about.)
ㅡPerformance evaluation is also related to rolling admissions for college entrance exams. By what percentage do you plan to reduce it? According to this year’s Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education guidelines, middle and high schools are recommended to reflect more than 40% of semester grades in performance evaluations, and it is also possible to evaluate performance evaluations at 100%.
“I haven’t decided on a specific ratio, but I don’t think there will be any problem if it is reduced to less than half. There are schools where performance evaluations are competent and there are schools where they are not. “We will provide experience programs at the school or office of education level and allow teachers to choose not to conduct performance evaluations at their discretion.”
ㅡWill innovation schools be abolished altogether? Are you going to provide after-school support to all students with that budget?
“As I have criticized the idea of completely cutting off the past just because the superintendent of education has changed, I will have to see whether a blanket abolition is right. But it will be scaled back. The budget of tens of millions of won is provided to innovative schools, but it is extremely wasteful, as it serves as a support for left-wing civic group activists. “If we save the budget (by abolishing innovation schools), we can secure enough of a budget of 200 billion won to provide free after-school school tickets of 1 million won to low-income families and 300,000 won to regular students.”
ㅡThey said they would allow prior learning in after-school programs, but is this to prevent demand for private education?
“We plan to request the government to revise the Special Act on Promoting the Normalization of Public Education and Regulation of Prior Education to allow after-school classes to be held next semester. Is there any country in the world that has such a law? As prior learning is banned, private education increases due to the balloon effect. “If students can take next semester’s classes at after-school programs, the demand for private education will decrease significantly.”
ㅡHow much are you planning to expand autonomous private high schools?
“I will allow everything as long as it meets certain standards. Also, like former Superintendent Cho Hee-yeon, I will not use the evil policy of abolishing the (redesignation) evaluation by artificially changing it like a rubber band standard.”
ㅡThe remaining term of office of the former superintendent of education is approximately 1 year and 8 months, which is less than half of the superintendent’s term of office (4 years). What policy will you implement first?
“First, we will abolish the Student Human Rights Ordinance within this year. Next, since Seoul’s educational background is so poor, we will focus our resources on this area. “Then, I plan to conduct a parent evaluation of the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education’s public education services within my term.”
ㅡWhy you should vote for candidate Joe
“Progressive candidate Jeong Geun-sik is unfamiliar with elementary and middle school education, so I don’t know if it’s shameful for him to come forward to become superintendent of education. I worked for 20 years. He served on the Education Committee for all four years in the National Assembly, and worked in the Social Education and Culture Division of the Lee Byung-bak Presidential Transition Committee. As Chairman of the Innovation and Fair Education Committee appointed by Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon, he contributed to the creation of educational welfare policies such as Seoul Run. “(I majored in history) I think I, who has created policies for future education, is the better candidate than Candidate Chung, who has lived by digging into the past.”
At the launch ceremony held at Gwanghwamun at 10 a.m. on this day, Candidate Cho raised his voice and said, “I announce the normalization of education after 10 years of darkness.” The reason why Gwanghwamun was chosen as the starting point for the election campaign is because Gwanghwa means ‘light shines widely.’ The purpose is to be reborn through education of hope.
Candidate Cho said, “This by-election is a result of former Superintendent Cho Hee-yeon’s illegal act of ‘special hiring of teachers from the National Teachers and Education Workers Union,’ resulting in a waste of 60 billion won in tax money.” He added, “However, the progressive candidate said he would inherit former Superintendent Cho Hee-yeon’s policies.” “I do it,” he criticized. He also said, “We cannot go further into darkness after 10 years of despair in education,” and appealed, “Please judge the avatar of former Superintendent Cho Hee-yeon and vote for Cho Jeon-hyuk.”
Reporter Choi Yena [email protected]
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2024-10-03 20:07:42