A Legal Study on the Improvement of the Appeal System for Educators

The Appeal System for Educators is an essential system for protecting educators' rights and is currently working well. However, there are many things to improve. Especially as the decline of teaching power is becoming more widespread, affecting even the preference for the teaching profession, it is more necessary than ever to find ways to improve The appeal system for educators to restore the stability of the teaching staff and to encourage them to teach with confidence as education professionals. Under these circumstances, we looked at the problems of the current school cleaning system and ways to improve it. First of all, it is necessary to expand the claimant qualification and claim targets in the Appeal for Educators, as expanding the avenues for educators who have been unfairly or excessively disciplined in the field of education to complain about their unfairness and receive relief is the starting point for protecting the status and rights of educators. Specifically, national university lecturers, who are appointed through a similar process to full-time faculty and perform the same duties, should be granted the right to file a complaint. In addition, the need to allow appeals for warnings and cautions, which are essentially no different from unwritten warnings, needs to be seriously and actively examined. In addition, recognizing the administrative action of private school educator discipline and granting the right to apply for an administrative stay should be interpreted prospectively. The operation of the Appeal Commission for Educators should also allow reconciliation and mediation at the educator appeal stage, and the scope of grievance claims, which is currently very narrow, should be interpreted more broadly so that conflicts and work difficulties in education can be resolved quickly and accurately. Some of these improvements are interpretive and some are legislative. And when these system improvements are made, the burden of work on the Appeal Commission for Educators will inevitably increase. Therefore, it is necessary to increase the efficiency and professionalism of the work by expanding the organization of the Appeal Commission for Educators and deploying more experts qualified as lawyers. In addition, it is also necessary to consider separating kindergarten, elementary, and secondary school teachers from university educators as a way to further enhance the professionalism of the Appeal Commission for Educators.