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[ironclay]

I�ve been teaching in this private mess called school for 2 months now, I�m not gonna name it
Coz I�m planning to split as soon as I get my passport back..
I�m seriously worried about the kids. They have a new teacher every other week.
The school is crap they don�t deliver shit�.so teachers flow in and out at an incredible rate
the kids are experiencing a serious chain reaction of falling in love and breaking up.
Just when they think they finally got a teacher who can last, and boom the guy splits..
Anytime a new teacher steps in the class, she/he�s flooded with
Questions about what happened to the former���..
And the school doesn�t even bother to inform them or the parents about the change
U can see the disappointment on their faces.
So it all comes down to this�.U HAVE TO REALLY WORK YOUR ASS OFF TO
MAKE THEM LIKE YOU, coz u know that they�re not trusting u.
So I�m just wondering if this won�t affect them emotionally in their future relationships or sth.

[tradinup]

Are you talking about kindergarten or what? Your writing is... unique.

I'm a kindy teacher too and I can tell you, you're right!

But then what? You don't ask if there is a solution or not, but if you did, I would say that there isn't one.

Such a school will possibly ruin its reputation and then become financially insolvent, and so the dog will die... Darwinism is the only solution to some schools. But often poorly-managed schools in China don't go away, because well, the Chinese will take what they can get.

[Roger]

Maybe something wrong with those teachers? Since you have lasted two months, during which every one of them quit or was terminated within 8 days...

[jg]

I felt that same way too: sorry for the little 'uns. They were so adorable and nice to me too! I guess like tradinup said, they have to take what they can get in China.

Sometimes I feel like even when I do my best, the industry as a whole is so sketchy, in so many ways... it kinda brings me down. Lately I even wonder about having made teaching my career! I never had those doubts before... maybe its this gray winter...

[Jolly]

[ChinaMovieMagic]

Yes...it can be a Karmic Krime (baoying)
Mental/emotional scars to kindy-children, due to English-learning pressure
and Behavioristic techniques

IMAGINE: A kindy bringing together foreign (English speaking/learning)kids and Chinese kids...in a Chinese-English communication/learning environment.

This is one of my New Year's goals.

[cheekygal]

[Roger]

Jolly made a very valid point about the lack of recognition of a specialised discipline called 'kindergarten teaching'.
In fact, it shouldn't even be called 'teaching' because at kindergarten level you DON'T TEACH. Or at least you don't terach the way they do at primary school level.
In some western countries, kindergartens employ specially trained staff. Their job is a whole lot more comprehensive than the job of an English teacher is: looking after and supervising toddlers, feeding them, being constantly aware of their health state, streamlining them into a homogeneous, harmonious group - those are extremely demanding chores that few college graduates with no kindergarten training can perform, I assure you of that.
What's more, the kindergarten professional is dealing with intellectually under-developed human beings that are still grappling with the concept of "learning": they have to learn how to learn, and at primary school you can see the differences between those who learnt it under an empathising kindergarten teacher or an insentient one.

It took the advanced societies of Europe some two centuries to arrive at the current level of understanding; in China they are still at ground zero in this regard. The Chinese don't understand the concept of 'motor skills', and they pay token attention to the attention span deficit of five-year olds.

For me, it is always a huge privilege to get Chinese preschoolers to internalise basic English - but only so long as I get it my way. And this is rare since Chinese parents immediately will query your wisdom, and your employer will fall by the wayside in the quest for those royally high tuition fees that pay for a token white-faced English "teacher".

[writpetition]

So, Ironclay, are you any wiser now? I mean you started a thread with a comment, perhaps, hoping to share some of your pains, perhaps to let off some steam and to obtain some comfort. Did you get any? if not, see the other thread started by Passion in Teaching...some cold comfort there!