“There’s no need to notify the school violence” … 38% of it occurs in a classroom.

[CBS Tae-im Jo] 

 It turned out that a number of students did not report that they suffer from school violence for a reason that there is no use.

On 23th of November, Ministry of Gender Equality and Family announced the result of the research on school violence intended for 15,954 Korean middle and high school students.

For the last one year the rate of victims was 6.7%. As for the reaction after they suffered, the most frequent answer was ‘did not let anyone know’ which took 32.5%. It was led by ‘told friends’ (26%), ‘notified family’ (21%), and ‘informed teachers’ (19%).

The survey also asked why they did not report anyone for those who said ‘did not let anyone know’ and 52% of them said because it was useless.

In addition to that, 42.5% of the students who have suffered from school violence answered that there was no special reason for school violence. This indicates that the violence happens unconditionally. Behind the answer, there were two or more answers including ‘because the victim is weak’ (14%) and ‘because the victim has bad personality’ (10%).

Similar to the former result, students who have committed school violence said that they hit other students for no special reason and the answer took 31%, the second frequent response. ‘Because they did something wrong’ (47%) was most frequent one, ‘to take some money’ (4%) and ‘because friends did that to’ (3.5%) were the next.

The fact that 38% of the school violence took place in a classroom shows us the maxim ‘the bacon does not shine on its own base.’ For other answers, there were ‘outside of the classroom’ (12%) and ‘somewhere of narrow paths’ (10.5%).

It was figured out that 42% of the students were hit by schoolmates or seniors or juniors. 6% of them were suffered from violence by students from other school.

The age when they first experience school violence was when they were 11 and it is younger than the last survey’s result which was 13. It shows that the age was getting younger and younger when they undergo violence at school.

Based on the research, Ministry of Gender Equality and Family is planning to open a ‘117 center’, which help students to report their pain. Furthermore, they are going to consider a countermeasure such as using counseling center in the cyber space and encourage students to be counselors in order to listen to their peers’ worries.

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