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[Yu_Bum_suk]

This was written by a grade three middle school student. It's so unlike anything I've ever seen a Korean student write that I thought I had to type it out. This is exactly as she handed it in:

Future Dreams

Actually, I don�t know what I really want to be. But by seeing many teachers and wrong education policy, a small dream becomes bigger and bigger which I want to change today�s education. So at first I want to be a teacher and then become a minister of education. I will not be a teacher who doesn�t have any teaching ability, background, and common sense. But ironically in this country, there are many teachers who don�t have any knowledge. When I become a teacher, I will not be like that teacher. And I really don�t like those teachers who punish students violently. Although students didn�t do such a bad thing, teachers hit them. But not all of the teachers behave like this. And I really don�t like teachers who are not neat and clean. To be a teacher, I think, we need more tests and certification. I will certainly change those things. I really want the policy to be conducted early which students evaluate teachers. Then the teachers who don�t have any ability will be retired. In this sense, my dream is not just a teacher, but to change Korea�s education. It really needs to be changed. I will do my best that my dream to be come true. I really want the teacher who don�t have ability to disappear in the school.

[yingwenlaoshi]

[eamo]

[normalcyispasse]

Damn, +1 for her! Go go gadget idealism!

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[Rapacious Mr. Batstove]

Sometimes at my middle school, it seems that some teachers are just well dressed bums pulled from the street, handed a belt microphone and told to read from a text boot while brandishing a bamboo cane.

YBS - I've had students express pretty similar sentiments in their writings. It would appear that Korea could clean up it's act by simply listening to the kids.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[mrsquirrel]

^ It's a good start though.

A few more of them and they could have a revolution on their hands.

Problem is if she is good at the free thinking thing she will get whisked away to another country to work there leaving the droids behind.

[BS.Dos.]

[oldfatfarang]

An excellent piece - well thought out, argued and written. You're very lucky to be teaching a kid like that.

My only doubt is, after listening to numerous K kids voicing the same opinion, will she, too, become crushed by her society and turn into a smiling, love-stick-weilding, child-beating adjuma?

Where do these child-beaters come from? Surely when they were young they also said that they would never beat kids. ?????????