A vice principal at a private alternative school in Seoul, who was dismissed after making a public interest report about school misconduct, filed a lawsuit demanding protective measures, but the court did not accept the claim.
According to the legal community on May 11, the Seoul Administrative Court’s 14th Administrative Division (Chief Judge Lee Sangdeok) recently ruled against the plaintiff in a lawsuit filed by Mr. A seeking to overturn the National Rights Commission's decision to deny protective measures.
Mr. A, who served as the vice principal of the elementary section at a private alternative school in Seoul, filed a public interest report with the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission in March 2024, alleging that the principal and the middle and high school vice principal had violated the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the Local Subsidy Act. He claimed that the school created classrooms in the basement, which was not a designated educational facility, and that subsidies awarded for creating a library were actually used to build a church.
The following year, after the school received a notice from the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education to reduce the number of vice principal positions from two to one, it decided to retain the vice principal position for the middle and high school section, which had more students and faculty than the elementary section. The school offered Mr. A, “Externally, you will maintain your status as a teacher, but...
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