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Freddie Miles
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| billybuzz wrote: |
| So that formula has worked ever since ,works on the kids too show them whos boss ,take no crap ,or prisoners .. |
And someday those children will grow up and be doctors. And when you are laying in your hospital bed, a very old and sick man, you will see a face, a face you vaguely remember as one of those kids you roughed up years and years ago when you had your own teeth. He will smile sweetly back at you as he unplugs your respirator. |
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billybuzz
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| Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:30 am Post subject: |
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| Freddie old chum, you seem to have got hold of the wrong end of the stick .Basically there is no need to "rough up" the kids merely explain that you are a good friend and a BAD enemy no physical stuff is necessary just the threat of punishment is enough most of the time .Of course anyone who seriously pisses me off at my place of residence or encrouches on my personal space will pay the ultimate penalty .The kids have grown up that I first taught and are at the uni where I teach and we have a healthy respect for each other I have no fears when at some time later in my life I meet a familar face in hospital ,hopefully you can say the same . |
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Freddie Miles
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| Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:50 am Post subject: |
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I suppose I can say the same. I dont worry about the former students. Most of them seem to remember my classes fondly long after I forgotten their names.
I dont think I have ever had to use the threat of punishment but then I dont teach children either. Public humiliation is usually effective in most of my cases.  As a matter of fact, I agree with most of what you say about keeping a very tight control of the image you show in class and hey, later you can be the nice guy to the students.
Once I worked with a retired military guy who was giving english teaching a go. He would walk down the corridors after his class finished, shouting at the top of his lungs, "MAKE A HOLE! COMING THROUGH!"
You would probably get arrested for saying something like to high school students that back home. |
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thrifty
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| Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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| almuze wrote: |
wow! I thought that story of the foriegner with a tape recorder in his pocket and bags of urine was just some wacky TOEFLer urban legend... it was true? wow.
truth IS stranger than fiction! |
Denby was the only teacher sacked from Cinar, apparently on the grouonds of 'this man is - what do you guys say? - a total w4nker'. Which he was. On the night he left, the story has it that he wrote, IN BLOOD, on the walls of his shared accommodation, 'I know where you all live. Learn to sleep with one eye open'. |
Has anyone else heard the story that at Interlang during 96 a young woman teacher from Manchester smeared menstrual blood all over the walls of the bathroom in the Interlang shared flat and left it there. She finished her contract nonetheless. |
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thrifty
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| Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:31 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="Freddie Miles"]
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| Any manager worth his salt will make some honest attempt to sort things out for you if there is a problem. |
So there is no chance of that being sorted out in TEFL, then. |
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dmb
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| Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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| I remember hearing that story Thrifty. I was never sure if it was true or just Urban legend. |
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almuze
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| Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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| I heard it, but also have no idea if it was just a wierd urban tefler legend or true. |
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billybuzz
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| Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Hey Freddie Iused to work at a place with a retired militarybloke( that was before ole GE turned up) who used to spout the same thing .Big Guy,Yank, name of Barry ring any bells ? |
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Freddie Miles
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| Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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It could be him. I cant even remember which school it was. There is little hope of me remembering his name. But, yes, he was a Yank and he was fairly menacing looking.  |
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Golightly
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| Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 10:15 am Post subject: |
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| Anyone ever meet James Brown in 93-94? I had the deep misfortune of having to share a flat with him. The least bizarre of his rich tapestry of weird behaviour was downing bottles of raki neat and dancing on the furniture to The proclaimers. |
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Freddie Miles
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| Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 4:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Wasn't he in "The Dirty Dozen" as well? Ermmm.. the film I mean. |
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