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[Sash]

Have you ever worked for a boarding school?
(The kind where you have to sleep at the dorms)
Do the students at these schools usually speak better English than regular schools? Pros/cons?

[Yu_Bum_suk]

Many rural high schools (like mine) have dormitories for the students who live farther away. They're usually no different from any other school.

Don't ever take a job where you'd have to live in a dormitory with the students. That's just ridiculous.

[christinajou]

I worked at HAFS in Yongin in 2005. I taught the students in the English department. Having taught returnees before, I expected these students in the English department to be pretty fluent. Except for 20 or so students, the students' fluency wasn't all that good. I had doubts whether these kids understood my lessons during AP and SAT classes. They are better at reading comprehension and grammar, but aren't all that proficient in speaking. They are better than public school students, but wasn't what I had expected.