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maingman
Joined: 26 Jan 2008
Location: left Korea
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 Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 6:30 pm Post subject: Korea and teaching |
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What do you think- TWO words sum up Korea/and specifically teaching
in SK for you!?
I arrived around June 2007- and have now had over 2 school positions
mainly in Seoul
1 mediocre 2 antsy |
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Koveras
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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| arrived around June 2007- and have now had over 2 school positions |
It's like that Monty Python skit where the guy has seen "almost one" sasquatch, or whatever it was. |
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Juregen
Joined: 30 May 2006
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The ESL industry in Korea needs some serious overhaul before it will be effective.
It mostly is a money grabbing Industry, that plays on peoples insecurities regarding the future of their children.
The other problem is that parents are not sufficiently critical and/or are blindsided by the ESL industry.
I am pretty sure it will take another generation before any change will kick in. |
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joshuahirtle27
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Yu_Bum_suk
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Pooty
Joined: 15 Jun 2008
Location: Ela stin agalia mou
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Ukon
Joined: 29 Jan 2008
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1. Overpaid
2. OverSexed
3. Over Here
bonus points to who gets the reference |
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T-J
Joined: 10 Oct 2008
Location: Seoul EunpyungGu Yeonsinnae
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Not to understate the number of money grabbing, just looking to make a won hagwons out there. However, one problem with the education system in Korea that is not given enough attention is that the parents like it the way it is!
They don't want the public schools to improve.
They don't want the bad hagwons to go away.
They want a system that is translucent at best and a mine field of mediocrity and inequality.
Why?
They feel that the system being this way will give them the opportunity to run an end around on the other kids. If the public schools don't give all that their kids need to get ahead better for my kid. If there are a lot of substandard hagwons that don't really care about making up the short comings of the public school system, all the better. Anything to get my kid ahead.
The system isn't going to change anytime soon, because when it comes right down to it the majority of the parents in Korea think that it works to their advantage. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:58 am Post subject: Re: Korea and teaching |
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| maingman wrote: |
What do you think- TWO words sum up Korea/and specifically teaching in SK for you!?
1 mediocre 2 antsy |
the opposite!
Korea EXCEPTIONAL (at both extremes), my teaching RELAXED |
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rhinosaur
Joined: 25 Oct 2008
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| Teacher! Teacher! |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 4:59 am Post subject: |
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| Ukon wrote: |
1. Overpaid
2. OverSexed
3. Over Here
bonus points to who gets the reference |
American GIs in England during WWII, right? |
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frankhenry
Joined: 13 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:05 am Post subject: |
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Not to understate the number of money grabbing, just looking to make a won hagwons out there. However, one problem with the education system in Korea that is not given enough attention is that the parents like it the way it is!
They don't want the public schools to improve.
They don't want the bad hagwons to go away.
They want a system that is translucent at best and a mine field of mediocrity and inequality.
Why?
They feel that the system being this way will give them the opportunity to run an end around on the other kids. If the public schools don't give all that their kids need to get ahead better for my kid. If there are a lot of substandard hagwons that don't really care about making up the short comings of the public school system, all the better. Anything to get my kid ahead.
The system isn't going to change anytime soon, because when it comes right down to it the majority of the parents in Korea think that it works to their advantage. |
I have several Korean friends who have told me this exact same thing. And, one of them actually owns a hagwon. |
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asylum seeker
Joined: 22 Jul 2007
Location: On your computer screen.
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| Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:56 am Post subject: |
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| T-J wrote: |
Not to understate the number of money grabbing, just looking to make a won hagwons out there. However, one problem with the education system in Korea that is not given enough attention is that the parents like it the way it is!
They don't want the public schools to improve.
They don't want the bad hagwons to go away.
They want a system that is translucent at best and a mine field of mediocrity and inequality.
Why?
They feel that the system being this way will give them the opportunity to run an end around on the other kids. If the public schools don't give all that their kids need to get ahead better for my kid. If there are a lot of substandard hagwons that don't really care about making up the short comings of the public school system, all the better. Anything to get my kid ahead.
The system isn't going to change anytime soon, because when it comes right down to it the majority of the parents in Korea think that it works to their advantage. |
Two words. |
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crusher_of_heads
Joined: 23 Feb 2007
Location: kimbop and kimchi for kimberly!!!!
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| face stupidity |
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T-J
Joined: 10 Oct 2008
Location: Seoul EunpyungGu Yeonsinnae
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| Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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| T-J wrote: |
Not to understate the number of money grabbing, just looking to make a won hagwons out there. However, one problem with the education system in Korea that is not given enough attention is that the parents like it the way it is!
They don't want the public schools to improve.
They don't want the bad hagwons to go away.
They want a system that is translucent at best and a mine field of mediocrity and inequality.
Why?
They feel that the system being this way will give them the opportunity to run an end around on the other kids. If the public schools don't give all that their kids need to get ahead better for my kid. If there are a lot of substandard hagwons that don't really care about making up the short comings of the public school system, all the better. Anything to get my kid ahead.
The system isn't going to change anytime soon, because when it comes right down to it the majority of the parents in Korea think that it works to their advantage. |
I have several Korean friends who have told me this exact same thing. And, one of them actually owns a hagwon. |
I own a hagwon. |
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