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[bassexpander]

I've noticed something happening a lot more recently: more upturned noses on the ol' Eslcafe. By that I mean more teachers who seem incresingly obsessed with distancing themselves from the average hagwon teacher, public school teacher, or even other university teachers here.

I see more threads that put down hagwon teachers. I see more responses in university threads where some teachers go out of their way to deify their own school, and its hiring practices.

Is this a repercussion of the Peter Jackson event? Is it because some teachers are really juiced about their presentations at Kotesol? Or is it because they are facing stress, realizing that their jobs are being given to others with only BAs, or teetering toward unigwon land as well?

[Milwaukiedave]

Bass,

I don't think it really has anything to do with the Peter Jackson case, but is more about ego. I've seem some pretty rude comments on this board and had some even directed toward me personally.

When I came here I worked at a hagwon and put in my time there, moved on to public school and then to a university.

Then again, someone posted a comment a few days ago (not direct at me because I didn't participate in that thread) saying that most university jobs were just hagwons inside a university. Translation: if you work at a university you are just a hagwon teacher. I personally think that was a pretty snobby comment, even if it was true.

That's my two cents.

[bassexpander]

Dave, I think you are right.

But I feel the Peter Jackson case might be causing some to fear they are being painted with the same "foreign pervert teacher" brush as everyone else. This, in turn, causes them to stroke their own egos as a sort of mental self defense mechanism.

[Milwaukiedave]

[renzobenzo1]

I think a bit of backlash is going on yeh.

Throw onto that some end of year stress, a turn in the weather and hey presto, you have some disgruntled members.