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Sheikh Inal Ovar · Joined: 04 Dec 2005 Posts: 1208 Location: Melo Drama School

Who do you nominate as TEFL President?

Please submit with your nomination at least one word explaining why you believe this candidate should be considered for the post.

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

Thrifty.

Why not? (sorry if i went over the word count)

thrifty · Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 1665 Location: chip van

I'd accept-anything is better than TEFLing. But I think Adrian Underhill has already got the job.

Like a Rolling Stone · Joined: 27 Mar 2006 Posts: 872

Is it a real position? Where did my post go? Was my nomination too controversial? Confused

Baba Alex · Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 2411

Sheikh Inal Ovar · Joined: 04 Dec 2005 Posts: 1208 Location: Melo Drama School

... my vote's for that Albania teacher from Corlu who gave the disruptive students a bit of 'what's for' ...

Why ... our jobs would become easier and textbooks more interesting ... a power swing in favour of a teacher who could go to class empowered by a real hammer and sickle ...

thrifty · Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 1665 Location: chip van

Nazif Ulgen-a legend, a pioneer, a Hawaian shirt wearer in Istanbul, a myth, a good payer and offer of great conditions, showed how far you could get with limited English -I salute you. An importer of TEFLers, an exporter of carpets, a fraudster, a prison survivor, married to an architect, an educator, a manager, a linguist, a Kurd, a straight talker- I salute you.

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

^you missed out boss of a convicted paedophile... Politics, it's a dirty game.

thrifty · Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 1665 Location: chip van

In your DOS career how do you know that you have not been the boss of a convicted paedophile?

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

I don't. But i was never in prison to meet future employees.

thrifty · Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 1665 Location: chip van

Perhaps the bottom feeder language schools could recruit in prison-they could then reduce the hourly rate. They would find the lojman luxurious and the curfew would be no problem. Don't know how they would cope with no homebrew in the rooms.

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

Funny you mention that. I was hearing the other day about a prison/work thing. The prisoners' families are paid about 4 ytl a day. They grow crops/make things depending on where they are in Turkey. Does anyone the name of this project.

Anyway, as I was reading I thought "teachers get paid more than that"

Sheikh Inal Ovar · Joined: 04 Dec 2005 Posts: 1208 Location: Melo Drama School

According to sky news, inmates in the Uk are getting paid for playing tiddlywinks ... or some such taxing game ...