Busan teachers rally to call for withdrawal of discussion on 'dismissal from school at 3 o'clock for lower elementary school students'

(Busan = Yonhap News) Reporter Min Young-gyu = The Busan Teachers' Union and the Elementary Teachers' Union held a rally attended by about 300 union members in the parking lot of the Busan Metropolitan Office of Education on the 16th and urged the National Education Commission to withdraw the discussion on dismissing lower grades of elementary school at 3 o'clock.

This is the first time that teachers have held a large-scale condemnation rally after it was reported that the National Education Commission was considering 'dismissal from elementary school at 3 o'clock'.

Participants criticized, "It was revealed that the National Education Commission included in the draft mid- to long-term national education development plan a plan to increase the regular education hours of first and second grade elementary school students and dismiss them at 3 p.m.," adding, "The opinions of teachers, parents, and students who are responsible for the policy are being excluded."

He went on to point out, “The policy of expanding educational hours for lower grades of elementary school is under the guise of eliminating the gap in care and reducing private education costs, but it is an irresponsible idea that transfers all responsibility to public education while forgetting the essence of schools.”

At the rally on this day, the unfairness of the discussion on dismissing lower grades of elementary school at 3 o'clock was also made known through remarks by elementary school students, a reading of the statement from the Busan Elementary School Principals' Association, and remarks by on-site teachers.