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bundangbabo
Joined: 01 Jun 2008
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 Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 8:37 pm Post subject: Flower Village |
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My first graders went out on a trip to the 'flower village' and apparentley it was a trip to help disabled kids - all well and good.
So this is their first day back and the lesson is to write a small essay about their time at the flower village. They told me about a video they were all made to watch about abortion (or 'killing baby') and I got to thinking 'what kind of place were they sent to?'
I asked my co-teacher about this flower village and she said it was run by nuns.
Does anyone know about this place? Have any of your students been sent there? |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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That just sounds messed up. Was the point of it saying, "Prevent autism, have an abortion" or "Save these kids by outlawing abortion?"
"Flower Village" is a very vague name, and could describe probably a hundred different places in Gyunggido alone. |
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greenwillow
Joined: 12 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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Flower Village (꽃동네) is a place in the Chungbuk province that helps a load of different kinds of people with various disabilities. 300 or so nuns, 200 long-term helpers and approximately 1000 short-term (day) helpers help the place run. It's not shoddy, it's a nice place where a lot of kids see things, help out and learn a lot. Helped my snotty kids quiet down for a couple days afterward.
The abortion video is a really short one, but apparently it leaves a big impact.. But then again similar videos are shown to kids several times in their school years, including once or twice at school in their middle and high school years. |
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bundangbabo
Joined: 01 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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| greenwillow wrote: |
Flower Village (꽃동네) is a place in the Chungbuk province that helps a load of different kinds of people with various disabilities. 300 or so nuns, 200 long-term helpers and approximately 1000 short-term (day) helpers help the place run. It's not shoddy, it's a nice place where a lot of kids see things, help out and learn a lot. Helped my snotty kids quiet down for a couple days afterward.
The abortion video is a really short one, but apparently it leaves a big impact.. But then again similar videos are shown to kids several times in their school years, including once or twice at school in their middle and high school years. |
Yup, thats the one - call me sensitive but they should not be shoving religious doctrine down kids throats.
It left a impact on my students - they wrote things like 'the doctors and mothers who kill babies are evil and should die' call me sensitive but if a message is delivered in a way in which my students write those kind of statments then I would rather they didn't bother in the first place.
I agree aborition is a sensitive topic with two sides to the debate but I also think that there is huge grey areas within this topic that need to be discussed (like pregnancy through rape) and have been ignored. I'm not impressed. |
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bundangbabo
Joined: 01 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
That just sounds messed up. Was the point of it saying, "Prevent autism, have an abortion" or "Save these kids by outlawing abortion?"
"Flower Village" is a very vague name, and could describe probably a hundred different places in Gyunggido alone. |
It looks that way RT. I thought it was a straightforward 3 days helping out disabled kids but it looks like some christian outfit trying to spread their doctrine to the youth of Korea.
I was born and raised Roman Catholic - I wathced probably the same video at my RC school at the age of 15 and was not impressed. Nor did it stop teenage pregnancy/abortion around my way.  |
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