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[ajgeddes]

I meant to write about this a while ago, but I am.... well, pretty lazy.

About 3 or 4 weeks ago, I had my open class and about 100 people came to watch it.

For my class, we were doing the topic "My Father is a ....."

Anyways, most of my students are quite advanced, to the point where they argue with me about how stupid the curriculum is because it is too easy. Well, one of the students in that class has a low level, which is to be expected. Moving on, during the lesson they were practicing saying what their father does. This girl had what her father did written in Hangeul so she could pronounce it easier.

Well, this one native teacher and his co-teacher were sitting right there about 3 feet away from her, saw that she had written it in Hangeul and they started making fun of her English level and talking about how it was so low and that she couldn't even read. Of course this girl didn't understand, but the other girl at her table, who grew up in the USA did. Can you believe it, English teachers were making fun of a students ability in my open class. We aren't even to the good part yet.

This girls dad is a Psychologist. Later one when they were saying what their father does (they were doing this in their groups and I was just walking around between the groups), she was struggling to say Psychologist. Anyways, she was saying "My father is a Psychol...Psycholo.... Psycho..." trying to say it and again the teachers made fun of her. This time they said "Yeah, she is a Psycho!"

Now, I never knew that any of this occurred until the next day, but I had noticed that the girl had looked pretty upset during the class. The next day, she had written in her journal about the asshole teachers (her friends had told her what the teachers had said) and she got in a lot of trouble. However, when the homeroom teacher found out what had actually happened and who it was, she got really pissed off because she used to work with the Korean teacher and knew what she was like.

Anyways, she put in a phone call to the VP at the other school, and the VP just said that they had a lot of problems with the two teachers and that they used to fight during the English classes and that the VP had actually asked them to stop fighting during class because all the kids hated learning English at their school.

Well, I was understandably pretty angry about this whole issue and was even angrier because during the meeting after my open class the two of them had been acting like typical idiots, as well.

Last week, at the GEPIK English whatever in Suwon, I had to work with the two of them. I had a decision to make. Should I confront them and tell them what I thought. Or, should I just ignore them. I just chose to ignore them and didn't even acknowledge they existed even though I was working with 6 feet of them for about 3 hours.

I know that the native speaker wasn't asked to stay on with the school, but they need to get rid of the dumb bitch, as well.

I just can't believe that English teachers could be so stupid and mean towards kids, especially my kids. Anyways, that's the story that I have been wanting to get off my chest for a while now. (Thanks for putting up with all the 'anyways' and 'well's)

[laogaiguk]

I'm quite curious about your English skills. Why did you keep calling these two lowerlife forms "teachers"? No teacher is capable of that. They are a$$wipes who are making money posing as teachers maybe.

[ajgeddes]

[laogaiguk]

[riley]

Sorry man, I think you were too nice and mature about it. As a teacher, and as the one who has to clean up their mess (making fun of a student's english is a definite nono) at the least I would have yelled at the two. More likely, I would have been tempted to kick the crap out of the guy and try to get them to verbally apologize to the kid. (This is one of the few times I think this should happen)

[ajgeddes]

[Yu_Bum_suk]

As if English education didn't have enough problems here already.