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[tanklor1]

I'm trying to draw a line between the problems that I have and the problems that I actually have. But seeing how this is my second contract I'm starting to see a couple of trends that leaves me with that empty, shallow feeling inside.

From my experince (and this is just mine) even though we are important to our schools, we are not THAT important. I walked into school last Tuesday only to find the hallway filled with mothers, (now I could go on and on about how much I hate Korean mothers and I still wouldn't be able to do my feelings justice) it turns out that the mothers of the special classes were invited to the school for a powwow with the teachers. A Korean PTA meeting if you will. My main beef is that the native speakers weren't involved in it at all, even though we teach the same students the same number of times a month as our Korean counter-parts and are asked to do almost the same amount of work as them: i.e. making monthly routines, creating tests and supplements etc...

Even through I hate most mothers, I still would have liked the opprotunity to speak my thoughts about their kids. A bit much, I most certainly, know. It's just this and a few other more pressing issuses (I missed 6 days of work becuase I was in the hospital with a broken knee and was docked 700000 won, even through I returned to work as fast as possible) that have me counting down my time left at the school. Maybe I'm a cold person but I'm not feeling the love or any sort of caring. Odds are it's just me.

[newteacher]

huh?

[eamo]

You're feeling marginalised. I know the feeling. Korean schools are really bad at making the foreigners feel part of the team.........

[Hyeon Een]

[tanklor1]