Korean Job Discussion Forums

[I_Am_The_Kiwi]

So today, AGAIN, half a dozen first graders (high school) were dragged into my teachers office for smoking in the toilets during lunchtime.

Some kids ive seen in here for the last 3 weeks now always getting caught. Back home, that would be a suspension or some serious punishment.....

What do they do here.

Take down their name, confiscate the smokes and give em a paddling.....thats it.
Obviously isnt working cos they keep getting caught.

How does your school deal with smokers?

[sigh!]

Students at my highschool are made to wear yellow sashes and clean if they're caught smoking.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

Last week six of our HS first graders got caught. They got the stick (not too badly) and then got to spend almost two hours kneeling along the side of the staff room, the first thirty minutes of which were spent holding their hands in straight in the air; one of the teachers let them put them down after several were starting to cry. Then they all had to write out apology letters and their parents were called to come into the school to talk with the disciplinary teacher. I'd imagine that at least a few of them were in for something much worse at home.

I think that more than anything else was the sense of shame of all of the other teachers and any other students coming into the staff room finding out what they did as they knelt there. I think it will probably deter some of them, or at least make them find a better hiding place to do it.

[Xuanzang]

Should make them smoke the pack to completion then paddle them.

[daz1979]

Mine get beaten to death with a variety of love sticks. Then they kneel in the office, usually all week and get insulted on a regular basis..... SEKI YA!!!

[ernie]

Talking out of turn? That's a paddlin'.
Lookin' out the window? That's a paddlin'.
Staring at my sandals? That's a padddlin'.
Paddlin' the school canoe? Oh, you better believe that's a paddlin'!

[jvalmer]

They should make the ones that get caught smoke the whole pack right there. If they get caught again, do it again.

[BaboNim]

I was walking to school and saw two boys with sashes and signs that said something in Korean (obviously in Korean). See many people do this and wonder what it says. But this time, one of my teachers I talk to was there with them, so I got to inquire. Yep, it was because they were smoking and they had to come to school early and hold these signs at the entrance gate of the school. Saw them there the next two following mornings too. I feel that is a fitting punishment, way better than paddling.

[Xuanzang]

Public shaming - that works too.

[EricaSmile84]

One time the teachers called the student's mother and told her that her kid was smoking. The mom came right to school and beat the SHIT out of her daughter for about 5 minutes in the teacher's office. Then the mother broke down and started screaming and crying and had to be carried out to her car.

[dossi]

[jvalmer]

This is one issue that Korean schools win out on, IHMO.

When I was in school, in Canada, the school just let students smoke just outside of school property. So, every break there would be a group of kids smoking cigarettes, or the wacky stuff, right on the sidewalk. It was off school property, so the teachers wouldn't care.

The only issues were people living in the area complaining about the cigarette butts they'd leave. So, the school told them that if they smoked there, they should cleanup after themselves. Which, most did.

[elavndrc]

I think the school should have cartons lying around...make em smoke until they throw up. See if they ever do it again.

[Xuanzang]

Of course someone is going to say its child abuse or a human rights violation. Representative Kwon Young-gil maybe .

[I_Am_The_Kiwi]