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Smudger
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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First it was 'equalizing education', which made Korean schools produce pretty good students, but not many outstanding ones. Now it's this.
It's a mistake scrapping Saturday classes. 2MB should have thought this through a lot more. The current 2nd Saturday off should have been the furthest they've gone, now parents are going to blow more money on hagwons just because their neighbor is doing the same.
Watch Korea reverse this after 5 years. |
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Triban
Joined: 14 Jul 2009
Location: Suwon Station
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| Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2011 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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| I personally think it is a step in the right direction. If kids no longer go to school on Saturdays, they will stop phasing out illegally working on Saturdays as well. |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2011 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Triban wrote: |
| I personally think it is a step in the right direction. If kids no longer go to school on Saturdays, they will stop phasing out illegally working on Saturdays as well. |
How is going to help hagwon teachers from working Saturdays? If anything, hagwons will have more students on Saturdays therefore hagwons forcing more teachers to work Saturdays. |
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littlelisa
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Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2011 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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| How does this affect the rest of the school year? Will there be more days added to make up the hours lost, or are they cutting school hours? Anyone know? |
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NohopeSeriously
Joined: 17 Jan 2011
Location: The Christian Right-Wing Educational Republic of Korea
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| Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2011 6:07 am Post subject: |
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| jvalmer wrote: |
| The current 2nd Saturday off should have been the furthest they've gone, now parents are going to blow more money on hagwons just because their neighbor is doing the same. |
What is there to lose? This government wants MORE private education. It's really an irreversible trend. |
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NohopeSeriously
Joined: 17 Jan 2011
Location: The Christian Right-Wing Educational Republic of Korea
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| Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2011 6:21 am Post subject: |
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| This article got one point right. Private tutoring is indeed becoming popular in Korea. |
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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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| Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2011 7:35 am Post subject: |
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| Children in SK need more time for sleep, study, play and effective instruction. The best way to gain time for all of these things is to reduce the hours spent in public schools - the closer to zero public education the better it will be for the kids. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2011 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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| littlelisa wrote: |
| How does this affect the rest of the school year? Will there be more days added to make up the hours lost, or are they cutting school hours? Anyone know? |
Well SMOE said that they would be adding two hours to weekday classes and cutting some vacation days to offset the loss of Saturday classes. (from the article posted above)
So people will be teaching more days and longer hours. |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 4:25 am Post subject: |
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| jvalmer wrote: |
| Watch Korea reverse this after 5 years. |
Ah yes. The eternal Korean cycle.
Act without without thinking.Do a complete U-turn. Fail to learn the lessons., then repeat. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 5:55 am Post subject: |
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| Julius wrote: |
| jvalmer wrote: |
| Watch Korea reverse this after 5 years. |
Ah yes. The eternal Korean cycle.
Act without without thinking.Do a complete U-turn. Fail to learn the lessons., then repeat. |
So I should go the land of Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton in 2016? |
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NohopeSeriously
Joined: 17 Jan 2011
Location: The Christian Right-Wing Educational Republic of Korea
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| Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 2:07 am Post subject: |
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| The public education here could improve if they cut down their time on math like in most first world countries. |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 7:25 am Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
| Julius wrote: |
| jvalmer wrote: |
| Watch Korea reverse this after 5 years. |
Ah yes. The eternal Korean cycle.
Act without without thinking.Do a complete U-turn. Fail to learn the lessons., then repeat. |
So I should go the land of Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton in 2016? |
Or could it be Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama-Clinton-Obama?
But yeah..each generation repeats the mistakes of the previous. At least they did before the history channel was invented. |
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sirius black
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| Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 3:57 am Post subject: |
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| Do the students do anything on Saturdays? Qualitatively I mean. I've always heard from them its a laidback day, no real serious teaching done. Is this so? If so, then its a waste so may as well end it. |
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