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[some waygug-in]

I personally know someone who was refused a visa because it was at a kindergarten (in korea).

I don't know the laws or how widely they are open to interpretation, but I do know that in some cases immigration does forbid foreigners from working in kindergartens.

Here's a thread from a couple years back that talks about it.

I don't really understand it myself.

http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=126165&sid=f79ff6cfc1ca9378ca9647c8e2111ec8

[Vix]

Kinders are the reason I teach. Little kids are in my opinion 100x more rewarding to teach. Besides they are soooo cute! Sure the crying is a little annoying at times but I can usually stop it in less than 5 minutes

[northway]

[northway]

I just thought of something else that's really nice about teaching at a kindergarten. Assuming you're teaching elementary in the afternoon, chances are you'll have high-performing elementary students, as many of them will have been through immersion starting at age six or seven. My second graders who went through immersion are of about the same ability level as my sixth graders who didn't, and speak in English out of force of habit (even during break time when they're allowed to speak Korean) rather than being forced to do so by their teachers.

[Mr. Pink]

It all depends on what sort of person you are. When I was younger, I taught kindie for a year and I loved it. I even thought to teach it longer. The pure love that the kids show for you is so rewarding that it makes some of the other things easy to put up with.

I moved from doing that to high school, and there was no turning back from there. I tried to teach younger kids, and I found it just wasn't within me anymore. I've been teaching high school for 8 years now and I doubt I could go back to anything below middle school.