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[call_the_shots]

Ever since the baseball game started, our vice principal has been nowhere to be found.

Any other schools having this "problem"?

[cruisemonkey]

Yup... my v.p.'s in the maintenance building sitting on the couch, smoking cigatettes with a bunch of male teachers watching the game.

I'm rushing all my classes a 'little bit' to finnish five minutes early and turn on the classroom TV so the boys can watch!

[JJJ]

Period 3 and 4 consisted of me sitting in the back, babysitting the class watching the game. And now just after lunch, period 5 is about to start and I will watch the ending. Can't complain.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

I got the biggest collective whine I've ever had in my Korean teaching career (and believe me, I've had some big ones) when I turned off the TV to start fourth block today.

[lowpo]

[quote="Yu_Bum_suk"]I got the biggest collective whine I've ever had in my Korean teaching career (and believe me, I've had some big ones) when I turned off the TV to start fourth block today.[/quote

The students at my school are actually learning today.

[Robot_Teacher]

We have a standard old fashioned cathode ray tube TV in our teachers room that shows games and funerals.

[poet13]

Haven't seen our VP in two weeks. Doing a professional development course they say..

[xCustomx]

I joined the VP and 6 other teachers in the security guard's room to watch the 10th. It's not uncommon for me to find the VP or principal watching TV, smoking or playing baduk with other office staff

[adamosity]

I think anyone who could have turned on the game today should have.

Even though my course is of greater importance than most native teachers here (full discipline ability and it is graded as part of their english grade), I know today was a battle I was not going to win.

I think I've finally learned this key to survival in Korea--sometimes it's better to go with the flow, English be damned!