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Troll_Bait
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Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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 Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 6:35 pm Post subject: Student athletes may have been excluded from national test |
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http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/340341.html
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School officials around the country are reporting that student athletes were either permitted to skip the test or their tests were not graded
Amid spreading controversy over grade manipulation in the nationwide scholastic achievement assessment (ilje gosa), it was confirmed that a number of students in school athletic departments did not sit for the test during last October�s assessment. Some are speculating that they may have been deliberately excluded to raise average scores for the schools.
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�Because of government policy that seeks to line up all of the regions and schools throughout the country in order of grades through the ilje gosa and the public announcements of grades, we�re seeing serious non-educational actions appearing all over the place, like grades being manufactured and student athletes being left out of the ilje gosa,� said Jang Eun-suk, chair of the National Parents Association for True Education. |
I've heard that student athletes are selected as children, and are allowed to skip classes since elementary school, so they're completely, utterly uneducated. I do know for a fact that at universities, student athletes are as dumb as bricks. |
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Xuanzang
Joined: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Sadang
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| Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Same as back home. All those prep stars get free passes into NCAA programs |
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Troll_Bait
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Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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| Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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True, but it is more ironic here, given the value that this society gives to education.
And I think (hope?) that those guys in the U.S. who get a free pass into university based upon a football "scholarship" can, at least, read and write. I have very good reason to believe that a lot of the student athletes in Korean universities are completely illiterate in their own native language. |
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Scotticus
Joined: 18 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Troll_Bait wrote: |
| I have very good reason to believe that a lot of the student athletes in Korean universities are completely illiterate in their own native language. |
Are you fucking kidding? Do you have any evidence AT ALL to back up that claim? You can't just make asinine claims like that without supporting it with something. |
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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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| Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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I'm not sure why you're reacting with such strong language.
A guy I know was trying to teach some university student athletes, and as you might expect, it was really difficult. So, he asked them, in Korean, to write something, in Korean. They couldn't do it. I've also taught university student athletes myself, and let me tell you, they're as dumb as a box of hammers. |
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Scotticus
Joined: 18 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Troll_Bait wrote: |
| I'm not sure why you're reacting with such strong language. |
Don't play games. Just because you feign rationality while saying something completely ludicrous doesn't make it any less stupid or worthy of being ridiculed.
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A guy I know was trying to teach some university student athletes, and as you might expect, it was really difficult. So, he asked them, in Korean, to write something, in Korean. They couldn't do it. I've also taught university student athletes myself, and let me tell you, they're as dumb as a box of hammers. |
Ahhh, so a "friend" of yours... thanks.
And I thought you said they're allowed to skip classes and not do any work? So you're saying these idiots, who know they have a free pass and can do whatever they want... they still show up to your class? You're right, they must be stupid. I mean, only a moron would show up when they didn't have to. |
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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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| Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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Double post --so deleted.
Last edited by Troll_Bait on Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:00 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 7:39 pm Post subject: |
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| That's right --they don't have to come to class. Sometimes they do, but as anyone who teaches university freshmen knows, students are really there to make friends. Apparently, in Korea, the first year of university is their chance to forge bonds. After their freshman year, that window of opportunity rapidly closes. No, I don't truly understand it, it's one of those Korean culture things that we might get to comprehend intellectually, but not with our hearts. So yes, they get a free pass, but they might come either to make friends or to make trouble. |
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ChinaBoy
Joined: 17 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Who cares? |
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