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[drcrazy]

[quote="waitandsee"]


It seems like Korea has begun to really crack down on details for improving their English education system. Their determination to have the finest form of education, for its younger generation, is now in the mist of a complete transformation.quote]

This is the second most funny thing I have read in ages.

[ttompatz]

ATEK part 27.

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[drcrazy]

[waitandsee]

[waitandsee]

I really do feel we are ready for this appropriate challenge. Continue to send in your case studies and thanks for all your support.

Cheers!

[Nester Noodlemon]

Can we also report UNFAIR treatment of ESL teachers who get lured into ratty NEWSPAPER investigations by an OP running a bait-em into participating in a trap story?

[tardisrider]

[SeoulNate]

[oatmeal]

more negativity?

I would like to share how my experience so far has been really good. My school has treated me with a lot of professionalism, class, respect, and care.

People don't realize that ONLY the negative experiences are posted online in forums like this. When things are good, people don't need to post about it. It's taken for granted. Only when you've had a bad experience will people post. So as a viewer, one might summarize that every ESL teacher in korea is being mistreated and having a hellish experience while in fact it's probably just 10% or 1 in 10 who are having terrible experiences and blabbing about it online while the rest of us have been treated well.

If there are 20,000 NETs in Korea, then 2,000 of them are posting negative things about their experience and it would seem like it's an epidemic happening to everyone and Korea but 18,000 other teachers are fine enough to not have to post a book about their issues.

What I'm saying is, Korea and the foreigners who live in Korea (working) have a weird sort of "perfectionist" attitude and expectation of Korea. Even if 80-90% is "good", people will always continue to find more ways to criticize and look down upon Korea and their way of life as never being good enough.

I, for one, am glad that Korean schools don't have metal detectors and police officers guarding the doors and grounds with machine guns like they do in the states. I, for one, am glad I can walk around the town not worrying about getting randomly shot at or held at gunpoint like you would in the West.

But, I suppose this is always natural as foreigners in ANY country, even in your own home country, foreigners are always griping and calling for reform and more benefits, equal treatment, and more goodies. I guess now you know what's it like to be a foreigner, so when you go back home, you won't look down so much upon all the new immigrants in your country who don't look like you, speak your language, smell like you, and do the same things as you.

[oatmeal]

more negativity?

I would like to share how my experience so far has been really good. My school has treated me with a lot of professionalism, class, respect, and care.

People don't realize that ONLY the negative experiences are posted online in forums like this. When things are good, people don't need to post about it. It's taken for granted. Only when you've had a bad experience will people post. So as a viewer, one might summarize that every ESL teacher in korea is being mistreated and having a hellish experience while in fact it's probably just 10% or 1 in 10 who are having terrible experiences and blabbing about it online while the rest of us have been treated well.

If there are 20,000 NETs in Korea, then 2,000 of them are posting negative things about their experience and it would seem like it's an epidemic happening to everyone and Korea but 18,000 other teachers are fine enough to not have to post a book about their issues.

What I'm saying is, Korea and the foreigners who live in Korea (working) have a weird sort of "perfectionist" attitude and expectation of Korea. Even if 80-90% is "good", people will always continue to find more ways to criticize and look down upon Korea and their way of life as never being good enough.

I, for one, am glad that Korean schools don't have metal detectors and police officers guarding the doors and grounds with machine guns like they do in the states. I, for one, am glad I can walk around the town not worrying about getting randomly shot at or held at gunpoint like you would in the West.

But, I suppose this is always natural as foreigners in ANY country, even in your own home country, foreigners are always griping and calling for reform and more benefits, equal treatment, and more goodies. I guess now you know what's it like to be a foreigner, so when you go back home, you won't look down so much upon all the new immigrants in your country who don't look like you, speak your language, smell like you, and do the same things as you.

[isitts]

[nicwr2002]