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The Ministry of Education held a meeting on the second day to hear opinions on the idea of ​​lowering the elementary school entrance age to 5 years old, and even raised the possibility of scrapping it.

The decision will be made through a public discussion process by the end of the year, but the public opinion of criticism is growing.



First, reporter Jung Da-eun reports.



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Deputy Minister of Education Jang Sang-yoon met kindergarten parents.



After Education Minister Park Soon-ae met with parents' groups, she began to collect opinions late every day.


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[Jang Sang-yoon / Vice Minister of Education: First of all, I would like to apologize for causing trouble unlike my original intention.

The fact that we will continue to discuss with parents' opinions as our top priority



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[Mr. Kim/Parent: The government does not know the developmental stage of children.

Even now, mothers have planned pregnancies in January and February and give birth a lot in January and February because they are afraid that if they give birth late, their children will have a hard time adjusting.]



Deputy Minister Jang continued to persuade.



He said he would arrange a teaching assistant in the classroom, and make some subjects more play and experience-oriented, like kindergarten.



He also promised to keep the elementary school daycare classes open until 8pm.



Parent backlash continued.



[Kim Seong-sil / Parent: I do not think that high-quality public education is being provided.

Children who get up without being able to sit at their desks are branded as problem children, and the homeroom teacher



calls them.] He pointed out that the meeting with the minister and vice-minister was rushed on the same day or the day before, and the gathering of opinions was too slow, just like the announcement.



[Kwon Young-eun/Parents: I am so embarrassed and sorry that I was called to this place to talk.

Withdraw the hasty administration and apologize for this confusion.]



At the meeting between Minister Park Soon-ae and the superintendents of provincial and provincial education departments, disagreements were also revealed.



The Ministry of Education plans to make a decision on whether to reorganize the school system in the first half of next year.



However, parents and educational groups plan to continue protesting and signing protests to withdraw the policy immediately.



(Video coverage: Park Young-il, Yoon Hyung, Video editing: Won-hee Won)



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