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[Apple Scruff]

I like it here just fine. In person I am friendly and outgoing. I come here to vent about those things that DO piss me off about Korea. It's mildly therapeutic. Don't let my negativity get you down there, big fella. I mean no harm. Another option would be to just skip over any post that has that handsome Mr. Walken smiling on the left there.

[rawiri]

Ok, peace. I'm willing to admit i may have been jumping to conclusions there. What can i say? i'm bored and a bit of fiesty internet banter generally enteratins me for a tad. A lot more than the only english tv channel being that bloody AFN network i get on my cable tv anyways. but thats another thread.....

[captain kirk]

That's it, I'm putting both of you on report. Ensign, escort them to the brig.

[Toby]

Monthly, or even bi-monthly reports are farsical.

The parents can't read them, especially when I have written them in my standard writing, which I hasten to add, isn't messy, but isn't text books. Numerous students tell me their parents can't read them and are only semi-interested in the tick boxes.

You can't realistically write anything constructive about a 5 year old's writing, when they can't even write Korean. They shouldn't be going to a hakwon for 2 one and a half hour classes a week at that age. TOO YOUNG.

My near fluent elementary kids have to translate what I write to their parents.

They are a waste of time.

[McNasty]

I used to flatter my students with false praise to appease their parents. Now, I am brutally honest and the parents appreciate it. Initially they question it but as long as they receive a suffient translation(through a Korean teacher) they appreciate the honesty and request ways to improve their child's learning capacity.

A combination of negative (honesty) and positive (flattery and the ability to offer support) is the best bet.

When you are this nasty they call you, "Mc"

[ryleeys]

Excerpt from a report card I wrote last month:

"Jewel is the single most disrespectful person I have ever met in Korea or the United States. She comes in to the building 30 minutes before class every day and proceeds to disrupt any activity taking place within a five block radius of the building. She is not only loud and refuses to sit down, she is rude to myself and the Korean teachers. Her language is more suitable for a drunken soldier. As you can imagine, this has an effect on her ability to learn English. Her grades are consistantly low enough to justify dropping her a level, but since she is at the lowest level, I can't drop her. The one thing she excels at is ruining the study habits of any student in the classroom with her..."


I continued to fill the box for foreign teacher's comments then went on to the back of the sheet. I'm fairly certain that translation into Korean was something along the lines of, "Jewel is a great student!" Was fun to get it out of my system...

[katydid]

At my old job, honesty was the kiss of death. In fact they had a column where you could mark a student was doing poorly, but that was just for show really.

I like the idea of a stamp or a Mad-Lib type deal.

[jazblanc77]

I actually had to write report cards last year in my very "cryptic" handwriting, as it has been described by many people in the past and present. I was told that it looked good so just do it!