Korean Job Discussion Forums

tomato · Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 4:06 am Post subject:

Here I don't have to live in a big city or buy a car. In the United States, one has to do one or the other.

I don't like hoodlums yelling insults at me

I enjoy the foreign language experience

smaller class size

no stupid dress codes

don't have to give grades

As D R Crazy says, back home there are "tons of applications, few openings"

Crazy Lemon Girl said it: "fear of allegations of child abuse"

The Man known as The Man · Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 3:00 pm Post subject:

How is it there are so few openings in the USA? The demographics are similar to Canada, and the boomers are retiriing left and right.

khyber · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Compunction Junction

the strange thing, CLG, is that men are highly saught after in some districts for early education jobs. Due to the "large" number of single mother's male elementary school teachers are the closest thing to a father figure that some students ever have.
That is weird and, in some ways, sad.

in edmonton public schools, 400teachers got laid off. The glory days of the late 90s are finished.

I don't think that discipline itself is the problem; i think it's the bureaucracy and limitations that make it difficult.

In some ways, i think ghetto teaching would be the most interesting. If you can somehow manage to empower those kids, you'd have a fight force....man, a fighting force

anae · Joined: 13 May 2003 Location: cowtown

hojucandy · Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Location: In a better place

there is a very simple reason why i don't teach at home. at home i am a veterinarian. here, until i can speak the language better i can't really manage that, so i teach. gotta put rice and kimchi on the table somehow.

i am in korea for the music primarily.

i should add that i really enjoy teaching - could do it for years. but, IF i ever go back to australia or papua new guinea (my two "homes") i doubt i would teach there. i can make a lot more money as a vet.