Teacher Assaulted by Angry Grandmother

A student's grandmother battered a teacher as stunned students watched at an elementary school in Seoul last week. According to the Seoul Office of Education on Tuesday, the third grade teacher, identified as Bae, was attacked while teaching class at a school in Songpa district in eastern Seoul on Thursday. The parents and maternal grandmother of a student identified as Kim barged into the classroom while Bae was teaching and began a loud quarrel about whether the teacher has discriminated against Kim. During the argument, the grandmother began pulling the teacher's hair and the quarrel turned into a scuffle. Alarmed students notified other teachers who subdued the attacker. Bae was taken to a nearby hospital and discharged a week later. "Kim's family was unhappy about his teacher's allegedly negligent attitude, which they saw when Kim was absent from school and the teacher failed to call to ask why," the school said. The parents of another student said, "It seems Kim's parents couldn't control their anger when they complained to the teacher that their son had received fewer tickets for the school bazaar held the previous day than other students." According to the school, Kim's family visited the teacher in the hospital and reconciled with each other on Monday. Kim has transferred to another school. The school appears to have tried to cover up the incident as it neglected to report it to the Gangdong District Education Office. The district office said it hadn't received any specific information about the incident from the school.

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