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Peter258
Joined: 18 Dec 2009
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 Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 9:13 am Post subject: Is this a fair assessment of private vs. public school? |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8XAch40z8E
This forum seems to prefer hagwon teaching in general, but this video makes them sound awful. |
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scotty12347
Joined: 16 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 9:27 am Post subject: Re: Is this a fair assessment of private vs. public school? |
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| Peter258 wrote: |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8XAch40z8E
This forum seems to prefer hagwon teaching in general, but this video makes them sound awful. |
Those two are GEPIK representatives, worth bearing in mind. |
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Emark
Joined: 10 May 2007
Location: duh, Korea?
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| Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 9:35 am Post subject: |
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| Read my post on the "lonely teaching experience" thread from this OP. |
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uhnothanks
Joined: 23 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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I'm currently in the application process and I've spent a lot of time trying to decide between public schools and hagwons and it seems like it just depends on the school/teacher. I love the eatyourkimchi.com videos but Simon and Martina have never worked at hagwons and they have had good experiences at their public schools. Other teachers will have different experiences.
I think people tend to defend whatever they are familiar/comfortable with, which makes sense because you can't really review something you've never experienced.
I'm currently applying to public schools mostly because I don't want to worry about the school closing or not paying me.
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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| There seems to be some confusion in terms going on. A private school is just like a public school, but it is privately owned, usually run by a family. A hakwon, often called an academy by Koreans, is a private outside-of-school business that offers classes in language education (and math, science etc in some of them but not usually the ones foreigners work at). |
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uhnothanks
Joined: 23 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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| There seems to be some confusion in terms going on. A private school is just like a public school, but it is privately owned, usually run by a family. A hakwon, often called an academy by Koreans, is a private outside-of-school business that offers classes in language education (and math, science etc in some of them but not usually the ones foreigners work at). |
That's a good point. Simon and Martina are referring specifically to Hagwons according to the sidebar on that video. |
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