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grandpa
Joined: 19 Oct 2009
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 Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 10:59 pm Post subject: Question for people that went from Public School -> Priva |
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| Do you like teaching at a private school/academy, or do you wish you were back at a public school? |
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8 years down
Joined: 16 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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Completely depends on how much an ass your hakwon director is.
There are awesome ones, and terrible ones.
Personally, I like private school better, but I know I'm in the minority. |
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grandpa
Joined: 19 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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| 8 years down wrote: |
Completely depends on how much an ass your hakwon director is.
There are awesome ones, and terrible ones.
Personally, I like private school better, but I know I'm in the minority. |
What about private school do you like better?
Also, are you "in the minority" compared to Dave's ESL Cafe forum members, or compared to foreign English teachers in Korea in general? |
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8 years down
Joined: 16 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 12:42 am Post subject: |
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| What about private school do you like better? |
- I liked the hours better
- I liked the smaller class sizes
- I liked not having a co-teacher
- I liked not being the only foreigner in the building |
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Who's Your Daddy?
Joined: 30 May 2010
Location: Victoria, Canada.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 1:01 am Post subject: |
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| If you get a decent hogwon (which is easier if you are already in the city you work), the only downside I think would be the loss of the vacation time. |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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My testimony is similar to that of 8 years down.
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I'm located close to Gwangju.
I get to go to Korean classes in Gwangju on MWF mornings.
I might be bragging too soon, though, because there is no telling what my schedule is going to be during summer vacation.
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| - I liked the smaller class sizes |
Ditto for me, even though I was in the country, where the classes are smaller.
My largest class there was 14.
My largest class here is 6.
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| - I liked not having a co-teacher |
Amen!
Now I am free to say anything I want to in English without having a Korean teacher bust in and translate.
My co-teachers were co-teachers in name only.
At the very beginning, they began politicking to make my life miserable.
I was never told why my contract wasn't renewed, but it could be because of them.
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| - I liked not being the only foreigner in the building |
I'm afraid it will have to be 3 out of 4.
I'm the only foreigner in my school, and it doesn't matter to me.
I eagerly grabbed the rural public school job because I hoped that I would get experience speaking Korean with people who don't speak English.
But with a so-called co-teacher following me around and breathing down my back, that was impossible. |
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gossipgirlxoxo
Joined: 13 Sep 2009
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Desk-warming at public school almost drove me mad. I am not a person who gets bored easily, but after a while I felt like I had visited every internet site there is. There was nowhere to go (Fancy a stroll in the sand? A walk up and down the freezing hallways? - and NO we could NOT whip out to anywhere, not even to the convenience store right outside the gate). I was beside myself.
Add to that the insanity of having to get a signature for every stupid photocopy, temperatures constantly in the range of uncomfortable to pain-inducing, and several homeroom teachers who behaved worse than the worst students - I just couldn't do it ANY MORE and quit. I am back in a hagwon and have no regrets whatsoever. Public School was the worst of my (many) jobs in Korea. |
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