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MollyBloom
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 Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 4:58 pm Post subject: it's not even 10am yet and at my middle school.... |
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...a 3rd grade female student punched a young, skinny, male math teacher in the face and broke his glasses
...during my inventions presentation class, a group presented their idea, a Tongue Chamber Pot (a bidet whose spray function resembles, yes, a tongue)
picture: http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x179/wildeanwit/Korea/TongueChamberPot.jpg
...the 3rd grader who is in the hardcore band I posted about showed me his mosh pit moves and ripped a mean air guitar
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nathanrutledge
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 5:02 pm Post subject: Re: it's not even 10am yet and.... |
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| MollyBloom wrote: |
| ...a 3rd grade female student punched a young, skinny, male math teacher in the face and broke his glasses |
Hot.
| MollyBloom wrote: |
| ...during my inventions presentation class, a group presented their idea, a Tongue Chamber Pot (a bidet whose spray function resembles, yes, a tongue) |
Very Hot!
| MollyBloom wrote: |
| ...the 3rd grader who is in the hardcore band I posted about showed me his mosh pit moves and ripped a mean air guitar |
Mediocre. |
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MollyBloom
Joined: 21 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 5:05 pm Post subject: Re: it's not even 10am yet and.... |
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| nathanrutledge wrote: |
Very Hot! |
Their group name was "Tongue Chamber Pot (not dirty!)." During the Q&A session, once student clarified it by flicking his tongue and asking if that was the function... |
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sadguy
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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| to get punched in the face by a female student and have your glasses broken is a very funny visual for me. |
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MollyBloom
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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| sadguy wrote: |
| to get punched in the face by a female student and have your glasses broken is a very funny visual for me. |
If you knew exactly what the teacher looked like, you would feel terrible! He's so lanky and tall, has a sparse, thin mustachio, has a smattering of acne, and wears these suits that belong on the body of an 80 year old man. His hair is somewhat plastered down with the aid of greasy products, and his "bangs" are choppy and short. When he speaks, English or Korean, his voice is high-pitched and squeaky, and a bit shaky. if I must guess, I think he's somewhere between the ages of 24-26. |
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Radius
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Young Korean females feel it's their right to maul and punch males. The sissy males take it with a smile thinking this is the only contact he can get from a girl; any contact is GOOD contact.
The teachers are fools for condoning this behavior. 
And they wonder why there's so much domestic violence in this country |
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conrad2
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Were the police called in to deal with the girl? |
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eamo
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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I'm stealing that tounge chamber pot pic for my facebook wall......hope you don't mind, Molly.  |
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ESL Milk "Everyday
Joined: 12 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 8:34 pm Post subject: Re: it's not even 10am yet and at my middle school.... |
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Good thing it's made out of meterial. Otherwise, people would keep falling down... |
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MollyBloom
Joined: 21 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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| conrad2 wrote: |
| Were the police called in to deal with the girl? |
Ugh. It's a mess. To answer your question, no. This is the gossip from fellow co-workers (in broken English). I don't know much about the laws that I will mention, so I apologize if the facts are incorrect.
Apparently, the disciplinary dept. called the parents, and the parents want her expelled from the school. However, it is Korean law that all students must have mandatory education until 9th grade, so technically the school can't kick her out. The girl doesn't want to change schools (I don't know why she would even have an opinion on this), so I guess she will just finish out her year here.
Many teachers are upset because students are getting more freedom; I understood this to mean (through a conversation with a co-teacher) that students are allowed to make more choices, but they are refusing to take responsibility for the choices they are making. I think the recent change in the corporal punishment laws has something to do with this. Teachers expressed that before the law changed, students had more respect for teachers and their behavior was better.
This is the thing that gets me: Apparently my school has a reputation of being the "worst school" (in terms of behavior) in the district. Other foreign and Korean teachers from other schools have told me this as well. While my classes are pretty well-behaved, there are of course a few bad students here and there. But when it comes time to disciplining the students, a lot of the homeroom teachers ask me to "be kind" because the students have "mental problems" and "are poor." Basically, just let them destroy the classroom and don't punish them when they break the rules.
Oh, and if they are handicapped in any way, just ignore them; they can't learn and won't do anything with their life anyways, say the teachers. I find this last statement completely untrue because of experience. One of my 3rd graders is a slow learner (PC = "mentally challenged"), but he is THE student in the whole school who, literally every day, is trying to better his English. He is a good kid and tries hard in class, even though the other kids make fun of him.
Okay, I understand the kids are poor and have behavior problems and possibly depressing home environments. However, students in this situation need more help and support from teachers! A way out of poverty is education and bettering one's self.
Yes, perhaps some of the students will never need to use English for their future jobs, but English class is one out of many subjects taught at this school. It would be naive to think I will cause this world-altering experience for every student, but already I have seen some positive behavior changes from "bad" students. Most of the time, all they need is praise for a job well done, support, and personal attention. Hell, even the "me, English-ee, no" students can muster up the courage to talk more, in and out of class.
Anyway, sorry for the rant. It's been a long time since I have had something to complain about, so I guess that's a good thing! One more 3rd grade class presentation to go...I'll try to post some more good posters later!
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MollyBloom
Joined: 21 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 9:12 pm Post subject: Re: it's not even 10am yet and at my middle school.... |
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| ESL Milk "Everyday wrote: |
Good thing it's made out of meterial. Otherwise, people would keep falling down... |
I know.  I wish I caught that, the antiquated "chamber pot," and the clean your "hip" part before they made their speech/finished the poster. I guess "hip" is better than the slew of words they could have replaced it with. "Clean yourself" would have been acceptable. |
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MollyBloom
Joined: 21 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
| I'm stealing that tounge chamber pot pic for my facebook wall......hope you don't mind, Molly. |
Go for it! |
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ESL Milk "Everyday
Joined: 12 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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| MollyBloom wrote: |
| However, it is Korean law that all students must have mandatory education until 9th grade, so technically the school can't kick her out. The girl doesn't want to change schools (I don't know why she would even have an opinion on this), so I guess she will just finish out her year here. |
Yeah, these new laws are hell. Several teachers at my school have already been taken to the police station... granted I'm not sure what actually happened, and of course what I was told doesn't sound that bad-- but apparently now you're not even allowed to say something that might 'hurt their self-esteem'.
I ended up being unable to send a student who was openly mocking me out in the hall... so it was a whole class of him mocking me, and now he has encouraged others-- and they used to be good kids.
My co-teacher's advice: ignore them, stop caring, get through the class however you can. |
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DeLaRed
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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my school is so boring  |
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Slowmotion
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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lol @ cleans your hip.
I hope you at least told your students hip =/= butt |
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