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cj1976
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 Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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| I would love it if no kids signed up for camp. I'm even less enthusiastic about it then they are. I guess I'm lucky in a sense, because I only have to be at school for the classes. No deskwarming for me. |
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RedKristin
Joined: 27 Jun 2010
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| Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Kaypea wrote: |
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| crisdean wrote: |
Also given that the camp is going to be a cooking class, I'm doubting (and hoping) that very few boys will be interested. Middle school boys + fire and knives can't possibly end well.
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I had a food themed camp and had boys come because boys, in general, are always hungry. They were not good at plating but definitely were active participants.
My winter camp only has 5 students as of right now because the Korean teacher wants to start charging for attendance where camps used to be free. My students are kind of poor so really anyone but her could've seen it coming. |
that's pretty unethical of your co-teacher and school; the school is given money by the government to pay for the foreign teacher. they shouldn't be trying to turn a public school program into a business.
i think a lot of public schools do this though - i know my first school did. |
How do the schools get away with this? I asked my coteacher about this, and she said with all the bureaucracy in the school board, it's hard to fathom it being possible for a school to get away with charging for something that's supposed to be free. |
My co-teacher's reasoning was that students won't have incentive to come unless they've paid ahead of time and that we need money for snacks.
1) This was never an issue before. Students always came to the free camps unless they went on family vacations, usually towards the end of camp.
2) The camp runs from 9 to 10:40 or something like that. We can do without snacks.
I'm a bit bitter about this but we do have 10 students now...so there's that. |
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crisdean
Joined: 04 Feb 2010
Location: Seoul Special City
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| Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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| RedKristin wrote: |
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Also given that the camp is going to be a cooking class, I'm doubting (and hoping) that very few boys will be interested. Middle school boys + fire and knives can't possibly end well.
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I had a food themed camp and had boys come because boys, in general, are always hungry. They were not good at plating but definitely were active participants. |
You're right aboutb boys always being hungry, but I noticed with my middle school girls that they're always hungry, too.
At any rate, only 1 boy has registered, and I know him, and he's already told me that it wasn't his decision. His mother signed him up and he has no desire to take my cooking class. I have more kids registered than I have space for, so I need to do interviews and arbitrarily give about 4 or 5 of them the no-go, part of me wants to do this kid a favour and not take him, but I've been warned by some of the other teachers that his parents can be quite the shit-disturbers when they don't get their way, so now I'm currently wondering what I should do. |
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OculisOrbis
Joined: 17 Jul 2006
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| If the kid doesnt even want to do it, cut him. Set up a preemptive argument with your CT's for the parents that says he was too late in signing up and the class was already filled - other students beat him to it. Allow everyone to save face and let the poor kid do something else. |
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jrwhite82
Joined: 22 May 2010
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| Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 2:10 am Post subject: |
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| Make all the students take a level test. Make it explicitly clear to this boy and his parents (by sending notes home to all the families) that if they do not do well they won't be allowed into camp and there are no retakes. Make sure he understands that the ball is in his court. |
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hypnotoad777
Joined: 05 Apr 2010
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| Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 2:30 am Post subject: |
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| machoman wrote: |
doesn't seem like a good sign that ZERO out of 2000 students signed up. do your students talk to you outside of class? do they say hello to you when you're in the hallways? could be that they don't think you're interesting or maybe they think your teaching style is boring.
i taught winter camp for my district last year but this year i'm doing it at my school. i had summer camp at my own school too. there were more students who signed up during summer and a lot less signed up for winter.
anyway, i don't know what to tell you, but i would feel a bit down too.... |
Never said I had 2000 students. I have about 500-600. All girls high school. They all love me and say hi ad nauseum every day. I suspect a lot of the other factors people have discussed are at work. Regardless, yes I am still a bit down about it. |
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