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[senor boogie woogie]

Hola!

If that kid threw a book at me, I would have thrown him against the wall. I would of lost my job, but the first week of kids saying F YOU and MOTHERF####R, I would have walked off anyway. Too many jobs to put up with all that.

I worked in Korea and in my opinion, a lot of the kids there were that way, disciplinary nightmares. I've had some jerk off Chinese kids, but most of them are good to deal with. Chinese by and large are happy that a foreigner is at their school (good face, the chance to make money, etc.)

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[Roger]

Really downlifting experiences, guys! I have some of my own, but not quite that bad!

When Chinese primary pupils make a nuisance of themselves (their talking is louder than the rumbling of a truck outside), I would stand the culprits in a corner. After five minutes, I allow them to sit down again. Quite often, their private conversations and fooling resume, so I stand them in the corridor outside the classroom!

Now this is what I cannot understand:
If a Chinese teacher with power comes along, they routinely put these miscreants back in class, saying "they are missing their English lesson..." or something like that!

Yet, if a Chinese teacher has to deal with undisciplined students, they punish them in a variety of ways, some of which I totally approve of, some I find a wee bit over the top (including physical handling!).

So, the one person that is misbehaving in a Chinese classroom is the foreign teacher, not the CHinese student. Unthe class is being held by a Chinese teacher...