Bimbo in The News
Here is the report (Via Korea Beat - thanks for the translation!)
[Anchor]
These days it¡¯s not easy to find a male elementary school teacher. It has finally gotten to the point where some schools have no male teachers at all.
Seong Mun-gyu reports.
[Reporter]
This school with, 860 students, has precisely one male teacher.
That one is in charge of curricula, so there are 28 female homeroom teachers from first through sixth grade.
[Interview:Lee Chae-yun, sixth grader]
¡°For six years I¡¯ve never had a male homeroom teacher but I would like to try it at least one time.¡±
For these students who cannot meet a male teacher, they want to have one during physical education classes.
[Interview:Jo Seong-beom, sixth grader]
¡°If we had a male teacher I think physical education class would be more fun and we would do more.¡±
As students age the need for a male teacher grows.
The students grow larger and it becomes more difficult for female teachers to cope with them.
[Interview:Choi Mi-ae, mother of an elementary school student]
¡°Obviously without male teachers students can¡¯t learn about the gender roles of men and women.¡±
Recently there was even an incident in which a sixth grader attacked a female teacher in Seoul.
[Interview:Hong Seok-yeong, teacher at Yangjeon Elementary in Seoul]
¡°These days it¡¯s now extremely difficult to properly guide students when they get to fifth grade. Female teachers are avoiding fifth and sixth graders. We have a lot of trouble at the start of a new school year when trying to decide how to assign homerooms.¡±
The number of female teachers has drastically increased since 1990.
Making up just 29% of elementary school teachers in 1970, by 1990 they were over 50% and in 2006 they represented 70%.
This year women comprised 86% of applicants to be elementary teachers in Seoul, continuing the feminization of the occupation.
The original is here and video here.
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