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| I can think of only two others more stupid |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| crazylemongirl wrote: |
| My school is giving us the best present, a day off! |
Why do you think that is? There is a very clear understanding at my public school that we are off to avoid the preying parents. Past experience has proven that it is better to not be a stationary target to the "favors".
Which, conversely, is exactly why my old private school was always open...
Oh, in case you were wondering, yes, I got loaded at the private school(largest single gift from a parent was 500,000 in cash), and it was seen as impolitic to return or refuse. I compromised by spending all the money on school supplies and books and a couple of class trips, funds for which were rarely forthcoming from the school.
The cognac I felt I deserved. |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: almost there...
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| Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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| flotsam wrote: |
Why do you think that is? There is a very clear understanding at my public school that we are off to avoid the preying parents. Past experience has proven that it is better to not be a stationary target to the "favors". |
Yes but in the end, chances are they are spending money on something I don't really want or need (unless it was a gift voucher). My students are poor, so I would get the lavish gifts, and a day off from school is always good.
Time = money! |
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Aussiekimchi
Joined: 21 Apr 2006
Location: SYDNEY
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| Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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I worked in a predominantly Arab school in Sydney one year. The Christmas after 9/11 I received a plate with a photo of the burning twin towers on it.
OMG!
That gift went straight to the pool room! |
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia
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| Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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| At my school for the past 2 years, the Korean teachers usually cleaned house on Teacher's Day. They got many nice bottles of perfume, clinique gift sets, etc. The foreign teachers got WAY less. One Korean teacher got a nice watch and a nice necklace, while those same two kids gave their foreign teacher body wash/body lotion...and it was not a name brand either-_- |
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ilovebdt
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
Location: Nr Seoul
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| Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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| princess wrote: |
| At my school for the past 2 years, the Korean teachers usually cleaned house on Teacher's Day. They got many nice bottles of perfume, clinique gift sets, etc. The foreign teachers got WAY less. One Korean teacher got a nice watch and a nice necklace, while those same two kids gave their foreign teacher body wash/body lotion...and it was not a name brand either-_- |
It's the thought that counts, not what you get. 
Ilovebdt |
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Hobophobic
Joined: 16 Aug 2004
Location: Sinjeong negorie mokdong oh ga ri samgyup sal fighting
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| Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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| princess wrote: |
two kids gave their foreign teacher body wash/body lotion...and it was not a name brand either-_- |
...stinky gifts for stinky people....take the hint...you stinky monkey!
"YOU DANCE FOR I AM WANT YOUR CERTAIN MAKE USAGE THE SMELL OF CLEANLINESS SUPPLIES I BUY FOR YOU AND AIR MUST ARE FLOW UNTIL I AM THE SMELLING SO NO STINKAGE!" |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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| JacktheCat wrote: |
| crazylemongirl wrote: |
| My school is giving us the best present, a day off! |
Same here.
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Same here. |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 2:03 am Post subject: |
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| crazylemongirl wrote: |
| flotsam wrote: |
Why do you think that is? There is a very clear understanding at my public school that we are off to avoid the preying parents. Past experience has proven that it is better to not be a stationary target to the "favors". |
Yes but in the end, chances are they are spending money on something I don't really want or need (unless it was a gift voucher). My students are poor, so I would get the lavish gifts, and a day off from school is always good.
Time = money! |
Hmmm...perhaps the confrontationary leanings of the board last week are influencing things, but your but seems to suggest we disagreed on something, but I don't think we did nor that your message is a response to mine.
Am I nuts? |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 2:28 am Post subject: |
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My district decidedly suddenly to keep all elementary & middle schools (& some high schools) closed next monday. First time I've seen that. Some kind of injunction must have come down from on high.
Damn, I'd told the kids I was expecting cash -- lots of it. |
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pet lover
Joined: 02 Jan 2004
Location: not in Seoul
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 3:22 am Post subject: |
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| There was an article about this. Many schools will be closed for that day in order to avoid this teacher day issues. But it is left up to the discrection of the principal to decide whether his/her school will be closed for the day. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 4:11 am Post subject: |
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| 364 days a year the prevailing attitude on this board is: Where is the money and how can I get my hands on it? It's kind of entertaining to see, once a year, a higher value system in play. Not that I believe it is sincere. But it is nice to see the charade. |
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ajuma
Joined: 18 Feb 2003
Location: Anywere but Seoul!!
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| Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 9:44 am Post subject: |
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Money is good! Grades for money? Well, if I have to give a passing grade to a PE student (who has NEVER attended a class) for FREE, why shouldn't I take some cash for upping a grade of a student who DID come to class???
THIS IS A JOKE!!! |
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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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| Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 9:48 am Post subject: |
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| So, did you give your students a gift for children's day? What did you give them? Does anyone here think it's better to give ... ? |
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poet13
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
Location: Just over there....throwing lemons.
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| Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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| For childrens day, every student had the opportunity to eat and drink junk until the got sick. They got to abuse the teacher in ways that they could never get away with in public school (I arm wrestled with every student at least three times i think. For some reason they just never got tired of being flung over the table). |
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