November 20- The NHRCK concluded that grading candidates for temporary teachers based on the high schools they attended is discriminative.
Ms. Lee (37), who failed to be hired by ‘A’ middle school located in Gwangju, filed a complaint to the NHRCK on February claiming, “In the process of selecting candidates by examining their career papers, A middle school applied a different standard for grading candidates based on the high schools they graduated from.”
According to the investigation by the NHRCK, A middle school applied different standards in reflecting high school records: 100% for equalized high schools located in Gwangju, and 70% for non-equalized high schools located outside of Gwangju.
Regarding this, the NHRCK pointed out, “It should be questioned if it is reasonable to reflect high school records in hiring temporary teachers,” “Applying an unfair standard uniformly to the candidates graduated from non-equalized high schools is a discrimination based on academic clique and the regions they are from.”
The NHRCK recommended that A middle school revise the related regulation. The principal of A middle school accepted the recommendation and removed the discriminative regulation.
