Authorities seek views on rules for teachers
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Chinese educational authorities have moved to further regulate teachers’ conduct, vowing to punish those who use corporal punishment, molest students, accept bribes or earn additional money by giving lectures outside school.
A draft document issued by the Ministry of Education yesterday to solicit public opinion before December 18 specifies a code of conduct for primary and middle school teachers.
The 10 offenses for which teachers will face punishment are: comments or actions against Party and state policies; refusing to take care of students’ safety in emergencies; treating students unfairly; cheating or seeking personal gain in student enrolment, teaching assessment, promotion or academic studies; using corporal punishment; humiliating or discriminating against students; molesting students; accepting bribes; seeking profits by forcing students to buy teaching materials; and giving paid lectures outside school.
Penalties include warnings, demerits, demotion or dismissal, according to the draft, which also applies to teachers at kindergartens, vocational schools, children’s activity centers and other educational institutions.
The document is in response to an increasing number of reports of teachers violating codes of conduct. Since the beginning of 2012, the media has exposed 48 cases of teachers using corporal punishment, with 33 of them occurring in 2013.
A spate of sexual assaults involving teachers and their students has shocked the nation.
A 62-year-old primary school teacher in east China’s Jiangxi Province was sentenced to 14 years in jail in October for molesting seven second-grade girls and infecting six of them with STDs.
The media has also focused on Fan Meizhong, a middle school teacher who ran for his life when an 8.0-magnitude earthquake struck southwest China’s Wenchuan County on May 12, 2008, leaving his students behind in the classroom.
Meanwhile, parents’ giving of gifts to teachers has come under fire as an example of society’s bribing culture. Meng Fanhua, vice president of Beijing’s Capital Normal University, suggested setting a limit on the value of gifts accepted by teachers by referring to bribery rules for national civil servants.
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