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PatrickGHBusan · Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 9:33 am Post subject:

I was also joking....that seemed obvious but then again online forums make it hard to convey humor sometimes!

Credentials were used to dispel something, as they usually are shifter.

You take care out there shift, life is tough in the peninsula. Laughing

shifty · Joined: 21 Jun 2004

PatrickGHBusan · Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 3:01 pm Post subject:

Good grief shifty, you went off the deep end again buddy.

Shift, shifter, shifty its all the same really, this is an online forum right.

Much like Paddy, Pat or Homer.

Use Homer all ya like anyway! I told you before, its no big deal as it was my username before. I never hid that now did I? So its all good.

Peninsula...yeah that is never used to refer to Korea!

I mean...The Korean Peninsula is a peninsula in East Asia. It extends southwards for about 684 miles (1,100 km) from continental Asia into the Pacific Ocean and is surrounded by the Sea of Japan (East Sea) to the south, and the Yellow Sea to the west, the Korea Strait connecting the first two bodies of water.

Hit Korean peninsula in google..but be ready for a shock shifta...there are a few references that qualify Korea as a peninsula. Gee I wonder how they came to calling it that?

Take care out there shifty, watch your step and keep an eye out.

Next time I am in Korea, the beer is on me pal.

marsavalanche · Joined: 27 Aug 2010 Location: where pretty lies perish

Hahah, I've lost count of how many times patrick has posted his credentials. I guess it's his way of telling others although he doesn't even work in Korea anymore, people should take him seriously Laughing

Now he'll make a post about how professional of a teacher he is and I'll laugh some more @ this thread.

I saw the OP. The little aholes comment was the worst part, but the OP just talked about how his kids don't care in his class right now because they're on vacation.

My kids are on vacation too at my public school but they've been the same. Meh, I think it's more of a reflection of you as a teacher if your kids don't care about your class.

ippy · Joined: 25 Aug 2009

Obviously, not everyone that comes to korea does it because they love teaching. Quite a few people come here because its an easy well paying job. Not everyones a born teacher, and not everyone runs with mantle of trust and expectation which the parents place upon their shoulders. Some amazingly, see this job as quite pointless and silly, but well paying. Korea need only raise the requirements though for qualified teachers and it can have vocational foreign teachers who care (it might have to pay them a lot more though).

Also, kids can be ... 'troublesome' at times ('holes at other times). But the nice thing about school is that kids are allowed to be aholes (or rather, allowed to exhibit behaviour that would warrant them being labelled an ahole in adult society). They are continually allowed to make these mistakes in order to modify their behaviour to something more sociable and less 'holish in preparation for them taking up their place in adult society.

It means kids can be aholes while not actually being aholes because logically, they cant be. Kids are allowed to make the kind of mistakes that would get them fired in a normal work environment for disrespect and self interest (ahole behaviour). They can refuse to do the assignments we ask them to do, they can speak over their 'boss'; they can tell people to GO DIE!!! and a million other little things. And for these acts theyll get sent outside into the hall and told to write an apology note.

In the adult world theyd be sacked of course.

But thats the charm of childhood. Kids are allowed a certain leeway to become socialized. Its not of course correct to call them 'holes because naturally they are only in the process of learning these skills. These labels are for people that have spent time being trained in those skills but still acting like self interested, self absorbed jerks who will stamp on whoevers face they need to in order to get what they want.

Being an ahole, is a conscious choice. And though kids are astonishingly smart, they havent yet learned to deal with the invariable compromises required of them that an adult will have.

But they can of course *exhibit* the *behaviour* so lets assume that the OP recognises this and isnt attacking the children, but the behaviour and the way it would be seen in adult life - but put it in shorthand Smile

shifty · Joined: 21 Jun 2004

Ramen · Joined: 15 Apr 2008

how much for the tico pat? Razz