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Teacher, leave those kids alone

 
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weebil



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 9:57 am    Post subject: Teacher, leave those kids alone Reply with quote

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2094427-1,00.html

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On a wet Wednesday evening in Seoul, six government employees gather at the office to prepare for a late-night patrol. The mission is as simple as it is counterintuitive: to find children who are studying after 10 p.m. And stop them.

In South Korea, it has come to this. To reduce the country's addiction to private, after-hours tutoring academies (called hagwons), the authorities have begun enforcing a curfew � even paying citizens bounties to turn in violators.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 1:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The title doesn't really fit the article. Kids will just go home and study. The parents are the ones sending their kids to the hagwons, not the hagwons Razz

The people doing these raids are merely chasing the symptom and not the symptom's cause.
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