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Mr. BlackCat
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 Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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3. The general work situation has remained bad. The director is incompetent, the Korean Teachers are actually enjoying their own mass exodus which we foreigners are not meant to know about, but ways and means have allowed some of us to learn otherwise. Anyway, to make it worse, the remaining foreign teachers are, mostly but not all, complete f***ing tools who don't want to be teachers, are here for the money and weekends. That's not me being mean, that's actually VERBATIM from one of them (scarily the now most senior foreign teacher...) It was actually quite disgusting when they said it. Anyone ever had a situation where even their foreign teacher colleagues are useless? How do you handle that chestnut?
4. I've become quite the pariah. I admit I have struggled to deal with the screwjob, the ridiculous work environment (would take too long to explain my gripes with it), the departure of the previous foreign staff who I actually liked and the general BS and lack of solidity in any workplace. I am very isolated and don't quite know how to fix anything. I resolved to keep my head down and just work on my focus which remains learning how to teach, and as a consequence I've become quite isolated "He takes it too seriously", if you will. (On a personal note, of course I take it seriously, there are kids involved.) Anyone ever had a similar experience?
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I am sympathetic with your struggles since getting here, but I'd suggest to be more open minded with your foreign co-workers. They'll be the only ones who can keep you sane and share your struggles. As someone else said, you don't need to be best friends but try to get along and hang out every now and again.
I just want to add that if you went to any country anywhere and asked the average person about their job they'd probably say "the money and the weekends". That's really not exclusive to foreign people in Korea. Don't fool yourself into thinking it's serious because kids are involved. The hogwan system is a joke and even though Koreans will go on and on about how seriously they take education, no one really does.
Owners: Are they in it for actual education or profit?
Parents: Are they in it for actual education or babysitting and keeping up with the neighbours?
Students: Are they in it for actual education or because their parents force them to go and they get to play with their friends?
Teachers: Why do you or anyone else hold them to a higher standard when they're the ones who get screwed over the most in the majority of hogwans?
I know that all sounds cynical, but I have no faith in education for profit. Not to mention Korean 'education' is different than what most Westerners think of education. Your job in a hogwan isn't to teach. It's to get and keep as many students as possible. Trust me, the sooner you accept that the happier you'll be. |
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