Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Easter Clark]

Sad, sad, sad. 7 girls from a grade 1 HS class attacked a girl who had lived abroad for 3 years and speaks perfect English. When I asked their homeroom teacher why they did it, he told me they said she was too smart and was making them look bad in their English classes.

This at a vocational HS where the level of spoken English is somewhere between "Hi" and "I like fork."

[Xuanzang]

So why isnt she at a normal high school (the assaulted)?

[pkang0202]

You should talk to the girl that went to the hospital and let her know that she shouldn't be intimidated. Especially in Korea where STATUS counts for a lot. That girl will get revenge in the fact that one day she'll have a great job, have all the luxury goods she wants, while the other girls are working at waitresses at noraebangs, and sleeping with drink ajosshi's for extra money.

[jvalmer]

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[Easter Clark]

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[sojourner1]

Dam, they got some serious competition going on in Korea. Kid says, "I want gun." Teacher says, "why?" Kid says, "so I can win....."

Kid acts totally retarded and specially sits at the front next to the teachers desk and has no friends, but yet shows brilliance when he writes.

I see disaster brewing in Korean kids...

The rich have a competitive advantage while the smart poor get pissed off and it results in school violence and suicide. Korean schools would be scary if guns were readily available like in America and America is one scary place to teach. That's too bad it's gotta be that way, but times are tough.

[Xuanzang]

Revenge is a dish best served cold. I hope that girl doesnt go off the rails and succeeds at becoming a translator .

[elavndrc]

I feel bad for her. I have a few students like that in my class, they're not isolated but they do try to hide the fact that they speak well. The English teachers parade them around and force them to speak in class because they can do it well but they don't want to do it because of the other students. Their level of English is much higher but the work is also way too easy for their age group.

[espoir]

Seriously if my students ever did that to one of the special (can actually speak a full sentence student) in my class we would be doing nothing but military drills, in english of course, and ensure they got one hell of a beating!!

I have one student that actually spent 12 years in California and speaks perfect english obviously. I also work in a technical high school so the class average in English is not far beyond "hello" and "I'm fine thank you" But this student spends the entire class helping out the other students around him and ensuring that they do all the work. He's honestly a dream come true in a student and definately my favourite by far. Funny enough some of the other english teachers just think hes too cocky and a distraction for the students, but I think thats just because he speaks better english and with a perfect accent and they ever will!

[Pa Jan Jo A Hamnida]

Yep. The K teachers don't care much for kids who were educated in an English speaking country. I remember one teacher who had an unreasonable dislike of a 9 year old who spoke excellent English. Every minor fault was a major criticism. Disappointing.

[maddog]

That's pretty sad. One of my students, who is in 2nd grade middle school, lived in Canada for five years and speaks almost fluent English. To my knowledge, she's never been the target of intimidation. Then again, she's in quite a high-level class, so they're all pretty good speakers.

I would lose the plot completely if I found out something like that had happened to one of my students.

[Easter Clark]

[Joe Boxer]