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Justin Trullinger · Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 10:33 pm Post subject:

I do enjoy throwing candy at students, but I'm careful that it's an irregular occurence.

A problem I run into is that I teach a lot of small children, and small latin children are physically demonstrative. You get into the habit of petting them on the heads as positive reinforcement.

But this becomes habit, and I have to fight back the urge to pet adults...

Lowest moment for student correction:

"If you say that again, I will bite you."

This only happened once.

Justin

Cdaniels · Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 12:09 am Post subject: hmmm, kinda chewy

I would think you only needed to bite your student once! Shocked

I would have liked to see if anyone watched and waited for coins coming out of guangho's window. Wink

Perpetual Traveller · Joined: 29 Aug 2005 Posts: 651 Location: In the Kak, Japan

I'm a big fan of the Mr Garrison method of correction:

Mr. Garrison: Let's start the day with a few new math problems -- what is five times two? Yes. Clyde?
Clyde: Twelve.
Mr. Garrison: Okay. Now let's try and get an answer from somebody who is not a complete retard.

Mr. Garrison: No, that's wrong, Cartman. But don't worry. There are no stupid answers, just stupid people.

Laughing

PT

Sweetsee · Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 2302 Location: ) is everything

I often correctly repeat the student's mistakes.

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

Similar to throwing the won out the window, I've burned a turkish note in class. Seeing as there is a picture of Ataturk, a godlike figure, on the notes I had to be sure that I knew the students well. As I've given up smoking though, I no longer have a lighter on me so I don't do that anymore.

Atassi · Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Posts: 128 Location: 평택

Question dmb...

I haven't been to Turkey yet. Do the people there really love Ataturk as you say? I always assumed that a good bunch in Turkey still hate him.

Just curious.

yaramaz · Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 6:28 am Post subject:

It's hard to know for sure because it isn't actually legal to dislike him, or to show any signs of dislike for him. I was nearly arrested (got a great talking to) a few years ago for accidentally hitting a bust of him with a snowball. So far, I've only met a few people who openly criticised him- one was kurdish and the other had lived abroad for about a decade and was politically very open. Otherwise, most people seem to have a set list of praise phrases that come out of their mouths regarding him, probably from the years of rote learning in school.

Atassi · Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Posts: 128 Location: 평택

Thanks for the post yaramaz...I thought it might be so. It tells a lot that you were nearly arrested for throwing a snowball Laughing

kind of sad though that people there in Turkey are scared to talk Crying or Very sad

He wasn't a nice guy, that's for sure...

yaramaz · Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 7:53 am Post subject:

I sometimes think that it wouldnt even occur to many people to criticise him, be it legal or not. It's such an ingrained part of their life that for many if not most it would be like criticising a great uncle or santa claus. You just know he is great and untouchable because...because...because everyone told you he was. So he must be!

Don't knock Santa!

bennyr81 · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 45 Location: Poland

A few of my friends, Kurdish Turks, used to get what can almost be called torture for dissing Ataturk. I think in the west he gets a good name for being pro-european but the people i knew despised him and suffered because of it! But when going to countries like Greece they were welcomed in with open arms when they discovered they were Kurdish.

yaramaz · Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 10:18 am Post subject:

What do you mean by

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

yaramaz · Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 12:09 pm Post subject:

dmb, all of the above, esp the Ibo aspect. And arabesk pop blasting out of night clubs generally! And anything involving the body parts of a lamb that are meant for thinking and procreating, not salad making.

Oh, and the fact that I lived in an essentially dry city for two years. Whoah! That was torture!

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

Atassi · Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Posts: 128 Location: 평택