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Teachers: Have you ever fallen asleep during class?
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Olivencia



Joined: 08 Mar 2009
PostPosted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 4:37 pm    Post subject: Teachers: Have you ever fallen asleep during class? Reply with quote
Can't say I ever have but I came real close once.
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Goon-Yang



Joined: 28 May 2009
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 9:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
If you fall alseep, you mustn't be much of a teacher. I pity your students.
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Olivencia



Joined: 08 Mar 2009
PostPosted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 10:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I admit I'm not a "real" teacher. I just fake it.
The reason it almost happened once was I was working at a school who used to do "room inspections" (student dorms) at 11pm or later at night. Had a Senior girls PE class that came to class totally wiped out the next day. So I just took them all to my classroom and let them sleep. What prevented me from sleeping too was people would say I slept with them and I would have to go about explaining what happened.
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Goon-Yang



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PostPosted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 10:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
So instead of teaching you let all your students sleep. Nice.

I still pity your students.
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kinerry



Joined: 01 Jun 2009
PostPosted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 10:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
you're a good teacher

I'd kill myself if I went through the crap they do
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Olivencia



Joined: 08 Mar 2009
PostPosted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 11:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
It is not very healthy at all to do physical exercise when one is that physically exhausted....and in this case through no fault of their own.
So Goon-Yang the only thing for you to pity is your stupidity. Take your cavalierism and shove it!
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hellofaniceguy



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PostPosted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 11:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I fall asleep every single day in class! Soon as class lets out and I have an hour or so between classes....I snooze!
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litebear



Joined: 12 Sep 2009
Location: Holland
PostPosted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 11:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Olivencia wrote:
It is not very healthy at all to do physical exercise when one is that physically exhausted....and in this case through no fault of their own.
So Goon-Yang the only thing for you to pity is your stupidity. Take your cavalierism and shove it!


Eh?

What time was the class? How much sleep does a senior need before attempting exercise? I get the feeling that the expression "physically exhausted" might be something of an exaggeration.
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Olivencia



Joined: 08 Mar 2009
PostPosted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 12:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Room inspections sometimes passed midnight and if they "fail" they have the wonderful punishment of doing exercise (that ought to constitute their PE class). School started at 7:50am and got out at 5pm - required (extra) ESL class for everybody at 7pm. Believe me there were other things that would add to the fatigue. The school advertised their meals as "buffet" but the students were told they could only get one serving and it was a pitifully small one at that. They allowed the teachers to take as much as they wanted so I would go up and secretly give my food to as many students as I could. Sometimes when I went out at night I would stop by and pick up some food for my students (out of my own wallet). One time they tried telling me in the cafeteria that I am only allowed to come up once. I went up a second time and just took as much as I wanted. Had an argument with the boss about it and I told her that if you advertise to everyone at the school that it is a buffet when it really isn't that is wrong. Her response? Well it's not really a buffet but it's "a buffet style" Shocked
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Mr. Pink



Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Location: China
PostPosted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 2:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Seriously, if you are in a position where you are close to sleeping, you aren't teaching.

If the topic was rephrased, I could say I almost fell asleep while proctoring an examination. It was hours long and too damn quiet for me. My head was nodding.

I've known Korean teachers that did take the desk face plant for a few minutes in such cases.
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Olivencia



Joined: 08 Mar 2009
PostPosted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 2:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm teaching how to fight back against the stupidity that was going on. Oh yeah...the Philippines is very hot...the school decided to shut down all AC during the night (of course without telling us) so I woke up at 2am with hot air blowing from the vent. No fans in the room, no screens on the windows...nice