[Pick] "Are you just taking a vacation for your grandparents?"... Vice principal who abused power, verbal abuse, and embezzled

 The vice-principal, who habitually abused and abused faculty and staff, and embezzled public funds, filed a lawsuit to cancel the disciplinary action, but was dismissed.

Today (19th), the first administrative division of the Ulsan District Court (Chief Judge Lee Soo-young) announced that the vice-principal A had dismissed the lawsuit against the Ulsan City Office of Education to cancel the suspension. 

Mr. A, who served as the vice principal of an elementary school in Ulsan, said to teacher B, who applied for leave after receiving a grandparent's award in October 2020, "My grandmother just passed away, and she abandoned the children for three days."

He also ignored Teacher C at meetings because he disagreed with him, and he abused Teacher D for not being told not to hang out with non-official caregivers.

In addition, he is also accused of misrepresenting the evaluation scores of other teachers for his fellow teachers, and embezzling some of the membership fees for the faculty member's fellowship.

When the education office started the investigation, it sent a message that made the victims feel anxious.

In the end, the Ulsan Office of Education held a disciplinary committee in January 2021 and decided to suspend Mr. A for one month. 

However, Mr. A filed a lawsuit stating that the reason for his disciplinary action was not true, and even if it was partially acknowledged, the suspension was excessive in light of the circumstances and extent.

In court, Mr. A claimed that some faculty members exaggerated the situation or added fictional facts.

In addition, they protested that they only paid for the false entry of teacher evaluation scores, and that there was no embezzlement of membership fees for faculty and staff members' associations. 

The court did not accept Mr. A's claim, saying, "There is not enough evidence to support the claim, and there is credibility in the statements of the teaching staff, such as some of the victims receiving psychiatric treatment."  

He continued, "It has caused a scandal within the faculty and staff community, such as undermining the fairness and transparency of faculty personnel and misusing some of the fellowship fee in the position of vice principal. He inflicted serious mental pain on the victim, and the offense was never light, so the suspension is legal."