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riverboy
Joined: 03 Jun 2003
Location: Incheon
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My wife and I run a study room from my apartment. I enjoy it quite a bit, but mothers can be down right scary at times. I don't think it is a Korean Japan thing, it's just a mother thinking their children can do no wrong.
I had a student with decent English, but a terrible attention span decide to blurt out "shut the f--- up!" in my class. I kicked him out and his mother called my wife up screaming and yelling at her for what I did.
Her English is actually quite good, so I told her she had no right to speak to my wife that way and I was not interested in teaching her boy as she was not a good mother and I could not control her.
Now, I screen the mothers as much as I screen the children when they come for an interview. I could have more children, but it's not worth it. |
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darkcity
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: SF, CA
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i like one of the comments from the article:
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I think that's great! They will come down to our level and we won't have to compete with them anymore.
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| any job where you'd get disciplined or fired for saying "no" to those fruits is a job not worth your time. |
So true!
Best yet of Japan is that we OWN our WORK VISA. So if we don't like one school, it's just a matter of walking down the street and working for the NEXT one! It's LEGAL here!
I'm pretty content with my employer though. I haven't heard many complaints here in Japan about teaching. |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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| Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="Tiger Beer"]
| uberscheisse wrote: |
| any job where you'd get disciplined or fired for saying "no" to those fruits is a job not worth your time. |
So true!
Best yet of Japan is that we OWN our WORK VISA. So if we don't like one school, it's just a matter of walking down the street and working for the NEXT one! It's LEGAL here!
I'm pretty content with my employer though. I haven't heard many complaints here in Japan about teaching.[/quote]
Most succinct, true thing I've read on here for a long time. Why the hell is Korea so popular when a) you are a slave to your hawgie b) you have to be around korean children c) you could live in Japan instead of Korea
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