Korean Job Discussion Forums

[jdog2050]

sing it from the mountain sistah!

http://koreabeat.com/?p=2442

[IncognitoHFX]

[RACETRAITOR]

An expensive education is like owning an expensive car in other countries (or here). Koreans won't stop throwing money away at businesses like the ones most of us work at, because it would lower their social status among their peers.

[Ronald]

Then where will you work? You make your living off the sweat off young kids backs like everyone else here.

[jkelly80]

Yes Ronald. Everyone here, EVERYONE, works for a hagwon.

[Ronald]

It's all connected. One feeds the other. Hagwons keeps the Public schools sh**ty, Public schools keep the college's shi**ty, and Universities keep the hagwans in business. If you're not in ESL, well I guess you though Dave's "ESL" meant something else.

[cdninkorea]

[Juregen]

I run my own hagwon and I even agree with the the article.

The problem is not necessarily the after school programs though, it is the way they are being run.

Children are constantly being monitored and pressured into "learning", while children have a natural tendency to learn, they are curious.

Teaching them to take tests, testing them constantly, creates an atmosphere that limits the imagination of children.

So my school does not operate as such. We don't test, we don't set limits, we don't pressure. We focus on attitude and behavior, give them an environment where they can freely express whatever is on their minds. To keep the parents happy, we do "assessments" of the children. We keep our eyes and ears open during class, and write reports on the childrens' progress.

Not only do they improve their communication ability in English, it seems also that these children are actually improving their character as well.

To say that after school education is bad per se would be limiting the possibilities. I do believe that after school programs have their uses.