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fidel
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
Location: North Shore NZ
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| enforcing trivial regulations |
I didn't write the rules, and as a teacher am obligated to enforce them. This is an internal school regulation and thus no business of yours. If the Korean teachers catch them wearing earrings, they not only confiscate them (and don't return them), but issue them with penalty points and undertake some disciplinary action. I am way more lenient and usually solve any disciplinary problems in the class. Students now remove their earrings before they enter my class. In the start of the year they thought they would try it on with the foreign teacher but swiftly learnt that I'm no pushover. I'm their teacher, not their peer/friend, something that some teachers need to understand.
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| you feel fulfilled and punishing non-conformity makes you feel important, you're in the right place. |
Oh what a scathing retort, makes me feel like I'm the big bad teacher imposing my western values on poor innocent 18 year olds. Get a grip bum suk, I am already important and fulfilled. Doing my job as a teacher by enforcing school rules doesn't do anything for me.
Now unless you have anything pertinent to add I suggest you keep your wide-eyed innocent meanderings to yourself. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 3:21 am Post subject: |
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| enforcing trivial regulations |
I didn't write the rules, and as a teacher am obligated to enforce them. This is an internal school regulation and thus no business of yours. If the Korean teachers catch them wearing earrings, they not only confiscate them (and don't return them), but issue them with penalty points and undertake some disciplinary action. I am way more lenient and usually solve any disciplinary problems in the class. Students now remove their earrings before they enter my class. In the start of the year they thought they would try it on with the foreign teacher but swiftly learnt that I'm no pushover. I'm their teacher, not their peer/friend, something that some teachers need to understand.
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| you feel fulfilled and punishing non-conformity makes you feel important, you're in the right place. |
Oh what a scathing retort, makes me feel like I'm the big bad teacher imposing my western values on poor innocent 18 year olds. Get a grip bum suk, I am already important and fulfilled. Doing my job as a teacher by enforcing school rules doesn't do anything for me.
Now unless you have anything pertinent to add I suggest you keep your wide-eyed innocent meanderings to yourself. |
Well soo-oary then. You come along and post a reply that makes it seem as if you're proud of being a big, bad teacher, pleased with the opportunity to impose someone else's non-western values on you're non-western pupils; then you seem offended that people would judge you to be an imposing, dictatorial prig. If you're doing your pupils a favour by saving them some regimental nonsense then I'm genuinely glad to hear of it. But seriously, you could show a bit more respect for someone else's property and pocket the earings, and let the kids earn them back with good behaviour. |
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