Education: Society: News: Hankyoreh

In March last year, when online school began with Corona 19, a teacher is conducting a remote class in an empty classroom at Youngpoong Elementary School in Geoyeo-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul. Joint Photo Report Group

Although the overall experience of school violence declined last year, the proportion of cyber violence and bullying appeared to be higher than in previous years. It is interpreted that it is the effect of remote classes introduced in accordance with the Corona 19 epidemic. Looking at the results of the ‘2020 School Violence Survey’ released by the Ministry of Education on the 21st, the response that’experienced damage to school violence’ in a survey conducted on 3,550,000 students from the fourth grade of elementary school to the second grade of high school from September to October last year It was 0.9% of the total. This is a decrease of 0.7 percentage points from 1.6%, which was the result of the first survey (April) in 2019. By school level, the response of elementary school students who experienced damage fell the most from 3.6% to 1.8%. The respondents that they had experience of violence in school decreased from 0.6% in the previous year to 0.3%, and the response that they had witnessed it decreased from 4% to 2.3%. The decline in the number of responses that experienced school violence is estimated to be largely affected by remote classes introduced in accordance with Corona 19. At the time of the survey, we asked about the experience of’from the second semester of 2019 to the present’, because most of the first semester of 2020 was conducted through distance classes. As the opportunities for students to face each other at school are less due to the implementation of distance classes, there is a possibility that the possibility of school violence has also decreased. However, compared to the previous year, among the various types of school violence, only’bullying’ and’cyber violence’ have become more prominent. The share of verbal violence was the largest with 33.6%, followed by bullying (26%) and cyber violence (12.3%), compared to the first survey in 2019, with bullying by 2.8 percentage points and cyber violence by 3.4 percentage points. This is the result of increased All other types have decreased in weight compared to previous years. The proportion of citing’cyber space’ as the site of school violence was also 5.4% in the first survey in 2019, but increased to 9.2% in the 2020 survey.

In response to this, it is possible that online spaces such as messenger and SNS may have affected students to a different level than before. One educational worker said, “As the number of days to go to school decreased, student conflicts and quarrels moved online. Bullying and bullying have become more frequent in places like’dan chat rooms’.” A high school teacher said, “I feel that students’ living culture is changing significantly from before, as students who have never even seen their faces become SNS and have already formed a network. Observation and research on this is necessary.” The recently released Korean version of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Initiative (OECD) Education Indicators 2020 also pointed out that “Considering the increase in cyber school violence during the period of quarantine, the percentage of students victims of online bullying in 2020 is likely to be higher.” The Ministry of Education said, “We will examine the characteristics of the experiences of school violence in the Corona 19 situation, and based on this, we will establish and implement the’School Violence Prevention and Countermeasures 2021 Implementation Plan’ to strengthen the prevention and response to school violence.” Revealed. It is expected that education for the correct use of internet and smartphones will be strengthened, educational activities and campaigns for the prevention of cyber violence, and education for community capacity building will be promoted. By Choi Won-hyung, staff reporter [email protected]