Site Search:
 
Speak Korean Now!
Teach English Abroad and Get Paid to see the World!
Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index Korean Job Discussion Forums
"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Teachers from Around the World!"
 
 FAQFAQ   SearchSearch   MemberlistMemberlist   UsergroupsUsergroups   RegisterRegister 
 ProfileProfile   Log in to check your private messagesLog in to check your private messages   Log inLog in 

Schertzer is at it again
Goto page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7  Next
 
Post new topic   Reply to topic    Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General Discussion Forum
View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
hogwonguy1979



Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: the racoon den
PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 5:42 am    Post subject: Schertzer is at it again Reply with quote
for your gagging pleasure

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2008/04/137_22591.html

why does the korea times keep printing this idiots works?

somebody should write a disclaimer that all foreign teachers are not like this guy
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Imrahil



Joined: 04 Feb 2008
Location: On the other side of the world.
PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 5:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I have gave up reading it half way through. Is this guy married to a korean? He has to be. I can't believe the generalizations this guy made in the second paragraph. What an ass. Of course everything has to be the teachers fault. What an apologist for an incompetently run industry.

Last edited by Imrahil on Wed Apr 16, 2008 5:49 am; edited 1 time in total
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Leslie Cheswyck



Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: University of Western Chile
PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 5:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I OWN THE CLASSROOM!
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
SHANE02



Joined: 04 Jun 2003
PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 5:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
The guy is weird.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
DrunkenMaster



Joined: 04 Feb 2008
PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 5:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Steve Shertzer has truly learned his place.




"I AM THE ONE WHO IS RESPONSIBLE!"
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Leslie Cheswyck



Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: University of Western Chile
PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 5:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
ALL YOUR CLASSROOM ARE BELONG TO US!
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
JongnoGuru



Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 5:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Imrahil wrote:
I can't believe the generalizations this guy made in the second paragraph. What an ass. Of course everything has to be the teachers fault.

Nope. He blames "Western businessmen" too this time.


From the comments section (I really liked this):

Quote:
Steven "thiessen" rails against modernatization, while complaing about "crap" from other teachers. Pick one topic. Looks like you are an aging teacher who can't score w/ the students like you used to. BTW, Korea is a male-dom confusian culture...its a fact. Your western-guilt self-loathing must make you a lot of "fun" at parties...fortunately, you aren't invited.



And yet, full disclosure laws require me to sheepishly confess I rather agreed with ol' Steve-o when he says:

Quote:
Examples of this indoctrination are native English teachers in hagwon (private language institutes) and universities "advising" Korean women on how to leave their husband or boyfriend, to English teachers who brazenly bring feminist writings, revolutionist literature, and material which openly advocates radical social change...


Not that I've personally ever been "stung" by a Western femi-nazism-fed uppity K-gal, or what have you, but I can appreciate the general nuance here.

Last edited by JongnoGuru on Wed Apr 16, 2008 6:01 am; edited 2 times in total
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Kimchieluver



Joined: 02 Mar 2005
PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 6:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I cut and pasted this from the current events forum.... it should never have been moved there. This is what I said in that forum

Another poorly thought out and disconnected article from the "Loser" Steve Schertzer.


This guy is not your fellow ex-pat. He is a person with an agenda. What it is I will never know. Read his past articles and you will soon get what I mean. I pity Steve, I really honestly pity him.

Since when was the last time you advocated for social change in a classroom of middle school students. I spend my time just trying to get them to learn more than the basics covered in the textbooks.

I teach at a great above average girls middle school. Saying things like "Girls, marry for money and don't get knocked up by just any guy" really wouldn't be understood or condoned. I wonder what imaginary universe Mr. Schertzer is living in.

Excuse me, but university professors are allowed to give the students some thoughts to chew on. It is university after all. It's called vocabulary building and rational thought processes, hopefully coming out in some sort of English.

Steve Schertzer prides himself as being the most hated EFL teacher in Korea amongst the ESL teaching community.

BTW, I wonder why he doesn't publish his thoughts on the Palestinian State.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
blaseblasphemener



Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 6:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
He looks like a portly Ted Bundy. Crying or Very sad
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Khunopie



Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Location: Fucking, Austria (pronounced "Fooking")
PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 6:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Does he insinuate that hagwan teachers are the Big Macs, Supersized fries and and large Pepsis of the ESL biz?
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
JongnoGuru



Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 6:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I wouldn't bother with rebuttals to the Korea Times. Nobody of consequence reads any of the local "E-rags".

Last edited by JongnoGuru on Wed Apr 16, 2008 8:04 pm; edited 2 times in total
Back to top
View user's profile