Jotun_Symph
Joined: 21 Aug 2011
|
 Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 10:38 am Post subject: |
 |
|
| jamesd wrote: |
| Jotun_Symph wrote: |
| jamesd wrote: |
| What's wrong with serving and eating lunches with your students? If it's small enough, it shouldn't really matter. |
Are you stoned? Lunch counted as one of our breaks, so it was not factored into our pay as a teaching hour. Half the kids don't want to eat their food, so in some cases you have to spoon feed them. Others spill stuff, so every 5 minutes while you'e trying to gorge down your food you have to stand up and wipe something down. And when everyone was done, we had to clean the joint up because we had classes right after.
I enjoyed TEACHING Kindergarten, but when it comes to food/toilet/hygeine issues, I think the Korean co-teachers should handle all of that. Like I said, the school was pretty good, but the lunch thing drove all of us insane. |
Ok. Fair enough. I wouldn't want to spoon feed and clean after them either.
Have you told your boss that serving and eating with them would be ok, but spoon feeding and cleaning after them is not? |
Well I finished that job mnths ago. The cleaning was brutal, we complained all the time but the director wouldn't budge. All of the teachers were responsible for cleaning their homerooms (don't know if I mentioned this, but we ate in the classroom). If I didn't clean, simply enough nobody would, and I would basically be teaching/writing/planning in filth every day. Director finally realized everyone was starting to hate her for her cheapness and hired a minimal cleaning staff. But this was about 1 month before I finished my contract.
As far as spoon feeding, the mothers wanted their kids to finish all of their food, and spoon feeding them usually made them feel like babies and motivated them. It sucked ass, but the Korean teachers had their own classes to eat with so asking them for help would put more work on them. Didn't want to burden them, they were busy enough. |
|
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
Usergroups
Register
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
