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TexasPete · Joined: 24 May 2006 Location: Koreatown

...In the mini fridge in the classroom? There's always a bottle or two of soju or beer in there. And I'm most certainly not the one who put it there.

littlelisa · Joined: 12 Jun 2007 Location: Seoul

While I'm not at a PS here, nor have I seen alcohol in the building, much less the classrooms, I have a similar story.

Back in Montreal I was teaching ESL at a French public school. ESL specialists often don't have their own classrooms, so they move around from one room to the other. I was looking for a pencil in one of the classrooms, so I opened the top drawer of the teacher's desk, and to my shock, among pencils and other things there was a half-empty bottle of some sort of alcohol. I was absolutely shocked. I mean, on top of everything, the top drawer is the one most likely to be opened first by anyone just looking to borrow something as simple as a pencil. I mean, even her students could have found it!

It was in an elementary school. I considered reporting it, but decided that things could get messy in the staff room if I did, AND at the time I was a student-teacher. I did talk about it to my cooperating teacher and my supervising teacher, though. One said it was unprofessional, but that my neck wasn't worth it, and I should just finish my stage and move on. The other said that it's unprofessional, but that it happens. I still wonder if I should have reported it, though.

PGF · Joined: 27 Nov 2006

in high school the driver's ed teacher kept a bottle of vodka under his seat which he frequently drank from and he let us smoke......

When I worked in law, the head partner of one law firm would pull out bottle of scotch everyday at 5:00 PM and make a drink. I always made sure to wander by around 5:15 so I could join him.....

i delivered pizza my first year at university and the manager would snort lines all day. He was eventually arrested for embezzling funds.

Oh yeah, at another law firm I had to run these forfieture hearings at the lcoal state courthouse. One judge---Judge Alexander was always blistered. The court house staff said that he would start drinking at 8:00 AM and did not stop until 5:00. He died from a heart attack at 53.

Um, I know a hagwon owner here who keeps her fridge stocked with beer and soju- and I mean stocked. The fridge was our present to her when she opened her new place. I love going there.....

Oh oh oh...... there was a lawyer busted IN THE COURTROOM while representing his client for possession of drug paraphrenalia ( a crack pipe!). It seems his house was raided while he was in court and they found a half kilo of crack; so they went to pick him up in court. he was paid by his clients in drugs (-: He got off with rehab and lost his license to practice. )-:

anyway......

cdninkorea · Joined: 27 Jan 2006 Location: Seoul

PGF: Great stories- had a good laugh! Laughing

peppermint · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 11:51 am Post subject:

at the elementary school, the vice principal who was there when I was hired had a fridge stocked with soju.

During the summer camp, my supervisor came and summoned me out of class, wanting me to follow her for a picnic. I said I couldn't, because I had students. These were grade 3 students, and a few tag along younger brothers and sisters, so I didn't feel like leaving 25 of them alone for any length of time.

The supervisor apparently dismissed the lesson early, and dragged me to the stairwell, where she, the VP and a handful of other teachers were sitting on a blanket, grilling galbi on a portagrill, and shooting whiskey. It was 11:30 am , and the festivities were well underway by the time I arrived

Laughing

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

At the first high school I taught at here, the alcohol was kept in the refrigerator in the teachers lounge, not the classroom. A good number of times teachers were encouraged to drink up before going to class. No big deal. One time I refused a drink. Response: Oh, good teacher.

peppermint · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 1:45 pm Post subject:

cruisemonkey · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:11 pm Post subject:

Not in the classroom, but certainly in the staff and smoking rooms.

spliff · Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand

We have some kind of dong brewing in our office made from some rare sort of natural pine needle looking substance provided by the principle whose hobby it is to hunt wild ginseng on the weekends. No, I've never dipped.... Very Happy

garykasparov · Joined: 27 May 2007

spliff · Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand

^You are irritating at best and a loser to boot. Are you from Canada?

mrsquirrel · Joined: 13 Dec 2006

Justin Hale · Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Location: the Straight Talk Express

Alcohol.....at school? In class? Shocked

Absolutely not. I've got trashed with the teachers after school many times but drinking at school is unforgivable.....speaking to children stinking of booze? Ugh, vile riff-raff.

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

crusher_of_heads · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 5:15 pm Post subject:

Grade 5 teacher keeps an empth Magnum of Hite on a prominent shelf in the classroom.

Last week was Christmas concert day, and shwed a video done back in July-it was there back then.

I think I was the only one in the auditorium who thought the bottle was out of place.

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