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[NohopeSeriously]

Things have bugged me lately. Especially I'm starting to feel guilty that I couldn't accomplish my contract (screw GEPIK). Is this normal? I couldn't care about this draconian VP and that bitchy co-teacher. I feel guilty that I didn't serve the kids well.

Should I feel very guilty about this? Especially that I figuratively ignored the kids?

FML.

[lifeinkorea]

First of all, many people look at doing 1 year contracts like a religious person thinking it's their duty to spread the word of their god. 1 year is an easy increment to use, like the number 10 or 12 for a dozen.

However, your time at one school could be 194 days and 13 hours, 38 minutes. It doesn't matter. Maybe since a lot of teachers come after finishing college, where they spent 4 years, they feel it is necessary to follow this way of thinking. You aren't earning credit though, so stop thinking in terms of semesters or years. The severance and airfare are just carrots on a stick to make you finish what might end up being nothing more than a slave factory job.

So, what you should do is really work on your teaching. If your teaching improves, your students will benefit, and then you will see results without trying to directly "serve" the kids.

What exactly do you think you did not do? Was it just not finishing the contract? Were there chapters or units you could have taught better?

You need to address the content of the problem, not the emotional paranoia you might feel from this mystery problem.

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[lifeinkorea]

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