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[Marmalade]

Hi,

I've been browsing with interest the posts on summer schools, and have noted that the overall concensus seems to be that they're shit.

Does anybody have anything positive to say about them?

I'm returning to the UK next summer after a year and a half in Thailand. I hope to spend some of the summer at a summer school in or around London before I head off elsewhere (outside of the UK).

I want to be in London because a) I've never lived there and b) I've lots of friends from uni there.

Is summer schooling a viable option, or am I just better off getting a temp job? I know I'd rather be teaching than temping!!!!!

P.S. Incase you hadn't realised by now the SEX @ was just a cunning ploy to make you read my post. Sorry.

[scot47]

I am not sure that they have sex in London. People are too busy with consumerism and lifestyle choices.

As for TEFLing, you would earn more working as a bartender.

[grahamb]

From the job ads I've seen, summer school organisers in the UK require you to work as teacher/monitor/social worker/taxi driver.
Whilst in Spain I worked in 9 camps run by the Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha. The teachers' responsibilities were restricted to the classroom, the kiddies being entertained at all other times by teams of monitors. Participation in extra-curricular activities was optional.

[Hector_Lector]

I thought sex at summer schools was obligatory.

You take a job and the school shafts you.

[grahamb]

One of the better films of the 70s.

[Hector_Lector]

Richard Roundtree Rocks!