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[mack the knife]

You know what I'm talkin' about. Everytime you blow your nose in class (into a tissue) your students shudder and say "Oooooh. Teacher dirrrrty!"

Here's a lesson you can teach them to try and end this foolishness. It won't work, but do it anyway:

Teacher: "Students, where do you put your toilet tissue after you wipe your heinders?"

Students: "In the trash can."

Teacher: "Oooooh. Dirrrrrty. So everyone gets to look at and smell your sh*t. Nice. Now, where do you, your sister, your father, your grandfather, and your grandmother spit?"

Students: "Wherever we want, teacher."

Teacher: "Precisely. Wherever you want. So everyone gets to step in it and slip in it and sometimes put their hands on it. You filthy molluscs. Shall we continue? When you're eating a snack in the park, where do you throw the wrapper?"

Students: "On the ground."

Teacher: "Exactly. On the ground. And it's the government's fault. You are indeed a bunch of dirrrrrty bastards. All the way up to the top. Let's keep going. When you are gravely ill or have pink eye, does your mother keep you at home?"

Students: "No way. I must not miss a single lesson or I'll fall behind and I'll never get into a foreign language high school or Seoul University."

Teacher: "You poor, misguided fools. Class dismissed."

[ulsanchris]

Students with pinkeye used to have to stay home. The government changed that policy and put all the pinkeyes into seperate classes. The rate of pinkeye among students went down. In the past the Students with out pinkeye would get from the kids with pinkeye so they could stay home. NOw that Students with pinkeye still have to go to school there is less interest in purposely getting pinkeye.

You ought to have mentioned that the rate of Hepatitis A went up last year. Isnt' that linked to unsanitary conditions. Also Korea has the highest rate of TB in the OECD (WIN!), because of unsanitary conditions and poor medical care.

[Goku]

Even though I feel you are trolling, I kinda agree on one point.

Kids are stupid rude and obnoxious,

I pretty much loved kids until I became a teacher here.

They have a great way of zoning onto insecurities and parading around and declaring it to every other adult they see.

I have dandruff that phases in the warmer months.

Anyways my "observant" kids say "TEACHER DIRTY!" when I had my month of dandruff. Well honestly, I don't care. but as soon as they start telling all the other teachers I wish I could bury my head in a vat of kimchi and ferment.

The issue is that now I have the reputation as this unclean teacher and it's a "weakness" the kids can exploit (very bad). For those of you who know about classroom management, we know this is can be the end of authority. Even though I'm clean for about 11 of the other months. My 1 time of dandruff has made me the dirty foreign teacher. Giving a bad rap for teachers and foreigners all at the same time.

Well, can't blame em really. Kids are kids. We foreign teachers see this uncleanliness as a cultural difference. But the kids see it as a TEACHER is dirty thing. So it's a bit uncalled for to point out cultural differences in these cases. Kids are just testing us, don't let them get to you.

Although, if I have my way, watch for the next news headlines:
200 students bodies found under a mound of dandruff with a foreign teacher laughing "GG"

[harlowethrombey]

I spent some of my trip to Yoido park on Sunday just walking around, picking up trash from the path and stuffing it into a plastic bag.

I simply cannot believe that people sit on a bench, eat their lunch, and then just walk away leaving all their wrappers blowing in the breeze. It's THEIR park (as in Korea, Seoul's). Dont they have a vested interest in keeping it clean?

This isnt to say that it doesnt happen elsewhere (yes, I know in America people do this. Although other people will publically call them out for it, too.).

Yes, the waeguk trash collector was quite busy on Sunday.

[Ilsanman]

I won't spend 2 seconds of my time picking up trash for other people.

I like that Koreans litter. It gives me more ammo to tell them that their country is ridiculous.

[michaelambling]

[mack the knife]

[Straphanger]

[roadwork]

What gets me is that they will sneak out late at night and stuff all of their household trash into one of the public cans in my apartment complex to the point where it spills out every Sunday. Wow! I guess 500 won is too much to spend on a trash bag.

[hugekebab]

[Robot_Teacher]

I still throw my trash in trash cans even though other people don't. I just pack it with me until I find a trash can to unload my pockets or backpack.

[TheUrbanMyth]

[harlowethrombey]

[agoodmouse]

[harlowethrombey]