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Sashadroogie
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| Not that new. 2004! Been discussed already on this forum. |
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firebird
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| It will be new to people just starting TEFLing and for those who are new to the forums. Not everyone has been on here since 2004. |
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Sashadroogie
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| Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 4:59 am Post subject: |
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| There's already a thread somewhere discussing it to death. Unless it's been deleted. |
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voltaire
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This article should be under the headline: Life A Bitch -Then You Die, but that wouldn't be news then would it?
"You become a TEFL teacher when your life has gone wrong."?
Well, who's led a life that hasn't gone wrong? As I recall, life went terribly wrong even for God's Only Son. So why should I even be offended as a career ESL teacher by Sebastian Cresswell-Turner's remark? I shouldn't be, but somehow I am. So I say, something went terribly wrong in your mother's life, pal, and she named it Sebastian Cresswell-Turner!
And what's gone wrong in your life Sebastian? Oh, don't bother. We really don't care to know.
Much of what he says is just not so:
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| Permanent positions are scarce, and there is no work in the summer; although if you are willing to sell yourself into servitude, there are plenty of 10-month contracts from September to June that leave you washed up and penniless at the start of the long hot holidays |
I know of and had plenty of jobs that go on for years as long as you may want them.
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| But unlike a job in a proper school, there is no pastoral side involved in being a TEFL teacher |
Just what is the 'pastoral' side of being a proper school teacher? Summers off? All right, granted, but every 'proper teacher' I know speaks of nothing but how many years they have until retirement. Sometimes it's as many as twenty! I have one friend who spoke of having only five more years to go. Since then I have lived in three different countries while he has stewed in the small town he was born in for the sake of a paltry pension.
In one of the earlier threads our friends here have so kindly directed us to the point is made of the fun of traveling. That's why I got in this game. Even as a child I remember seeing dogs sitting behind fences with wide open gates just there, and I wondered at their lack of imagination and curiosity, their brute stupidity! And with all due respect to the fools who are not ESL teachers, how do they abide a life in the same town or city, year after year? Frequent trips to the pizzeria perhaps? I opt for the 'extravagance' of eating at one in Rome!
This article is pure sensationalism. While some of it is more or less true it possesses a bias that is plainly a bald attempt to sell newspapers. Get a real job Sebastian Cresswell-Turner! |
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Sashadroogie
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| I believe Sebastian is referring to the 'caring' side of being a proper teacher. Tending to your flock of students outside the classroom etc. Hard to imagine him caring a jot for anything beyond his own ego. |
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