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Grab the Chickens Levi · Joined: 29 Apr 2008 Location: Ilsan

And I didn't.

Last month I was accused of sending a kid to hospital and causing him to have his arm in a sling, when I barely touched him, sitting him upright and now I just got accused of touching a kid's c*ck!

Needless to say, I'm quitting teaching kids and doing coporate work when my contract is up.

What with all the other sh*t we have to put up with working in this country, this new culture of being accused of being child abusers and perverts (thanks Chris O'Neil you a*shole) is the straw that broke the camels back for me, especially after all the effort and unnapreciated hard work I put in here

F*ck this job

bundangbabo · Joined: 01 Jun 2008

Lekker · Joined: 09 Feb 2008 Location: Seoul

No! That sucks. That happened to me two weeks ago. I feel your frustration. It's time to kill your supervisor and then the parents of the child.

Not really, if these people somehow mysteriously die however...

Seriously, tell them you have a lawyer waiting to sue the *beep* out of them for false accusations, whenever they're ready to have their asses handed to them. I'll buy you a drink if they back off without thinking twice.

Bibbitybop · Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Location: Seoul

Can you sue the family or the school for libel?

ReeseDog · Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Location: Classified

Bigfeet · Joined: 29 May 2008 Location: Grrrrr.....

I'm not going to touch any of the kids while I'm there. If they're in a life threatening situation, I'll have to think twice about it.

Lekker · Joined: 09 Feb 2008 Location: Seoul

blaseblasphemener · Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 6:07 pm Post subject:

I'd say the reason for all these new accusations is not Chris Neil, but the Fox Channel showing Law and Order: Special Victims (sex crimes) Unit, 10 hours a day.

Lekker · Joined: 09 Feb 2008 Location: Seoul

hugekebab · Joined: 05 Jan 2008

Anyone teaching kids here is an idiot; you're opening yourself up for a public lynching.

Even with the adults I teach, if they come anywhere near me i actually back off from them and hold my hands behind my back! You have to be overly careful here.

That guy who needed the video tape, jesus I think you should pursue the legal action against the parent, drag the **** through the courts.

samd · Joined: 03 Jan 2007

Lekker · Joined: 09 Feb 2008 Location: Seoul

crusher_of_heads · Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 6:38 pm Post subject:

Grab the Chickens Levi · Joined: 29 Apr 2008 Location: Ilsan

Well the Student in question just came to my office with my supervisor to apologise for causing trouble, so it's all over now.

What had happened was I hi fived him and my hand brushed his stomach as he walked past.

1 hour of acute stress though.

I work at an elementary school and the little ones always want me to pick them up and do 'superman' and stuff like that when I see them in the corridor on the way to classes or lunch.

That's it though, in today's social climate I realise I was probably naive for that (even though the other teachers and the janitors, cooks etc have seen me playing with the kids and think it's cool) though and will stop doing it. I'll just tell them funny jokes or make small talk with them, or act funny from now on....

To any of the posters that made faceatious comments, I trully hope that you have the sh*tty lives that your pathetic personalities suggest you will have.

jboney · Joined: 14 May 2008 Location: Northern Seoul

Yeah, I work at a public school with mostly Chinese kids (grades 1-5) and they love the special attention and affection of hugs and high fives and everything. You really have to watch out. I have one student, a 1st grader named Ronald who I have been working with for two years now, and Ronald always runs up to his teachers and give them big hugs. I always feel kind of weird about it and but I don't want to shun him away, so when he does that I always say "okay, 1 second hug" and usually he just tries to wrap himself around me in that 1 second and then he breaks away. Other teachers (esp. the older women) have no problems with hugging the kids, especially the little ones.

I have also had 5th graders try to be flirtacious with me, sit down right next to me with their legs up against me, or just come up to me and stand by me and put their head up against my arm or chest and it is always really very uncomfortable. Again, I try not the shun them away, but I also try not to promote that too much with the older ones.

The truth is, some children just don't get enough of that physical affection at home and they see teachers as another means of acquiring it. You just always have to be careful, and try to design rules around it, like "1 second hug--break!" That way it becomes kind of like a fun challenge for the kid, and they don't feel rejected or turned away.