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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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 Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 7:26 pm Post subject: Steve Schertzer is going to China!? :) |
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http://www.ajarnforum.net/vb/the-virtual-pub/41370-steve-sh-tzer-serves-up-another-turd.html
This is the most fantastic Steve Schertzer article I've ever read!
"I am currently looking at a few places in which to teach next, including Shanghai, China, and Taiwan."
And look at this gem:
"It's not Jesus who saves, it's teachers. It's good and dedicated teachers who save. It's education that saves. I realize how dangerous it is to compare teachers to Jesus. I would never do that. Jesus tried to save others too and look what happened to him. If I dared to compare teachers to Jesus, I just might be--- well--- crucified."
Mr Schertzer, I'm sure I speak for many, many EFL teachers in Korea when I say I wish you a long, happy, long, untroubled, and especially long teaching career in China or Taiwan. I hope you love the place so much you never want to leave. Indeed, I hope you fall in love with the place so much that you never even entertain the notion of teaching in Korea again. As a certain rabbi once said 'May the Lord bless and keep you ... far away from us'. |
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hogwonguy1979
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: the racoon den
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| Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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what a piece of bs. dont know whats worse his messianic complex or his ego.
can somebody who taught in his region care to explain how he got fired, bedsides the obvious reason, being a egomaniac turd?
we can only hope its the last korea sees of him |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 10:17 am Post subject: Re: Steve Schertzer is going to China!? :) |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| "I am currently looking at a few places in which to teach next, including Shanghai, China, and Taiwan." |
1) I didn't know Shanghai was a country
2) I didn't know Shirtlifter had the credentials to get a job in Taiwan. You need more than just a BA or MA over there. |
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marlow
Joined: 06 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 3:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Anyone who is not a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed newb isn't really welcome in Busan EPIK anymore. |
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roadwork
Joined: 24 Nov 2008
Location: Goin' up the country
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| Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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| marlow wrote: |
| Anyone who is not a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed newb isn't really welcome in Busan EPIK anymore. |
How so? Care to elaborate? |
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Freddypops
Joined: 11 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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I had the pleasure of meeting Mr Schertzer last September during a Busan EPIK training week. He's an angry, angry man. The (admittedly rather hapless) admin lady gave us the schedule for our demo lessons. Through gritted teeth, cords straining in his neck, Steve told her "I... already told you... I have to leave early!" I offered to take his place, allowing him to present the next day instead.
Guess if he thanked me for my considerate offer. Go on, make a wild guess. He did have some interesting ideas in his lesson plan once he actually presented it, though. |
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hobakmorinam
Joined: 22 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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I was at the EPIC training tooo.
"I'm constipated!!!"
hahahahaha. What a goober...
Hmmm, should I go to China or Shanghai? |
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The Great Toad
Joined: 12 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 7:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Steve styles himself after Bernard Trink |
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Insomnia
Joined: 17 May 2009
Location: koreanwikiproject.com
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| Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Who is he? |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Insomnia wrote: |
| Who is he? |
You must be quite new. He's a lone voice of righteousness amongst a sea of unprofessional Korean and apathetic western teachers. Look up misanthrope in the dictionary and his picture should be there. Unfortunately he wasn't content with being someone a few people disliked and had to try to get his views published everywhere in order to become someone everyone disliked. |
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Insomnia
Joined: 17 May 2009
Location: koreanwikiproject.com
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| Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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| What kind of stuff does he say? |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Insomnia wrote: |
| What kind of stuff does he say? |
He published all of his 'articles' on his Ajarn Writer's blog - http://www.ajarn.com/Contris/writersindex.htm#Steve%20Schertzer . This is a Thai site from before he got fired from his teaching job in Thailand. He managed to get some of his 'articles' published in the Korean press before I guess they caught on to what a weirdo they were dealing with. The most infamous were his 'I own the classroom' piece and the fall-out from his betrayal from his Filipina bar-girl. |
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alphakennyone
Joined: 01 Aug 2005
Location: city heights
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| Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 8:40 am Post subject: |
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I don't understand the obsession with the guy. I don't have the patience to read any of his "articles." But there are a lot of guys out there just like him; he just puts his long-winded thoughts onto a blog rather than into your ear at a bar. I prefer this sort of nonsense in blog form because I can easily stop reading after the first few sentences. Getting a drunk wind-bag to stop requires a bit more tact.
Still, he seldom posts on Dave's...so what's the point? Just to rile him up and feed his ego by seeing his name here every few months.. |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 2:50 pm Post subject: |
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| alphakennyone wrote: |
| he just puts his long-winded thoughts onto a blog rather than into your ear at a bar. |
He doesn't just put his asinininities on a blog, he also got a local English paper, a nation-wide English paper, to publish them. |
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