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rapier · Joined: 16 Feb 2003

Personally i rank the dong chimm as the all-time most intensely irritating thing a child can do...a garuanteed immediate short cut to an angry reaction...

oneiros · Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Location: Villa Straylight

Showing up to class an hour early, and lurking around my classroom, expecting me to entertain them during my lunch break. Evil or Very Mad

ThePoet · Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 2:10 am Post subject:

How about the simple act of not showing courtesy (talking to friends when you are trying to teach or talking to friends as someone else in the room is reading for you).

As for cellphones in class...if they even start to touch their cellphone during my class, it is confiscated until the end of the class period. One day I was wearing 7 of them.

Badmojo · Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 3:03 am Post subject:

Complain.

"We don't like this."

To which I reply, "SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO?"

peppermint · Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 3:44 am Post subject:

I wouldn't consider my kids daily highwire act (window cleaning) annoying, but a little frightening.

I asked them to please stop, and they didn't come to clean my room for two weeks.

Ilsanman · Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Location: Bucheon, Korea

The ramyeon thing is just dumb dumb dumb.

Use your head!! I can understand the first time, but 3 times a week of a whole class of sniffling and sucking wind is just dumb dumb dumb.

Normal people learn from their mistakes. Then there's Koreans.

crazylemongirl · Joined: 23 Mar 2003 Location: almost there...

lying.... at the moment I really hate lying. I had a couple of kids skive off to watch a soccer game at one of my after school classes. The fact that they skived didn't annoy me, it was lying about it.

just because · Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Location: Changwon - 4964

Definantly the putting on bags thing.

This usually goes along with teacher, what time is it??? every 5 minutes which drives me insane.

I haven't been ddongchimed in over a year. if a kid does it too me I make sure they know not to do it again.

captain kirk · Joined: 29 Jan 2003

Haha, I can hear it now, 'teacher, whaat time eez it?'.
Being 'old', 'teacher, How old are you?' to which I say 'one hundred!'. They say 'really'. 'Yeah, my brother is two hundred'. Or 'incorrect' said one girl, 'false' and walked away. The annoying thing is I'm not dead yet so why ask Laughing

The ramyon thing. Yeah, I walk into class and someone has a bag of ramyon with the red dust packet all over it and they're crunching it down. Then, 'teacher, water'. I guess so!
With thumbnail chipping off bits of eraser to throw at the students across the table; pretty annoying?
'Chair rodeo bronco busting'. Like an astronaut or test pilot in training to endure hard knocks and g forces the student deliberately tips his chair on it's two back legs popping a wheelie leaning the back of the chair against the wall until....BAM. He has successfully ridden it back to the floor to arrive flat on his back like a stunned turtle. Another delectable adrenal booster as an alternative to espressos which they haven't hooked onto yet. Good thinking!

Crois · Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 5:18 am Post subject:

When a class of about 5 13 year old girls just put their heads on the table and say they are sick and say game and just dont make it fun to teach.

lazymaisey · Joined: 12 May 2004

What exactly is "The dong chimm" Question

jajdude · Joined: 18 Jan 2003

dong chimm = poke in the butt!

I just dislike the kids who never really try because they don't want to be there and are not having enough fun, but you can't get rid of 'em! They ignore you, say even the simplest things in Korean when they know you understand some, just chat to their buddies and screw around nearly all the time, perhaps responding only when you show you are pissed off.

Kids who only pay attention if they are being entertained enough! The ones whose attitude seems to be you must be nuts actually expecting me to try to speak or learn English! The ones who take advantage of the "this is not a real school" thing, and know they can just blow off trying because it's hard to measure progress in their foreign language skill. The ones who waste my time, and the ones who ask me to speak Korean because they can't understand even basic English. I don't like teaching the early beginners! I really think they need a bilingual teacher. But then the kids and probably teacher will use 99% Korean and they'll maybe even learn less English than they might somehow pick up from the freaky foreigner they usually ignore!

Yikes. Didn't know I was in rant mood Wink

Anyway the don chim has always been my most hated behavior. But the bye bye halfway through class is pretty bad too. Or when they bug the hell out of you trying to get out the door ASAP even though you keep saying "just a few more minutes" .... Ah, kids, a new gray hair every day.

One more .. all kids screaming (chanting) "Ga...im, ga...im, ga...im" over and over. Then a classic: you say OK and try to do a game they'll like but then they'll give you the "jamie upso" routine. I think it's in their blood to whine and complain about trivial stuff regularly.

waggo · Joined: 18 May 2003 Location: pusan baby!

The translation of Dong Chim...as far as i can make out is...Sh@*T Acupuncture.

waggo · Joined: 18 May 2003 Location: pusan baby!

Zed · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Shakedown Street

This takes me back. Sure glad I made the move away from the kiddie classroom. The endless battle with them for the last five minutes was the worst for me I think. Another one that drove me nuts was when it is the middle of the winter and the students are wearing their heavy coats and want me, in my shirt, to open a window in front of the white board because they're hot. Take off your coats, idiots.