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tomato

Just testing a hypothesis.
I'll tell you about it in a few days.

Lizara · Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Location: Seoul

I don't complain that the kids don't respect me (it mostly seems that they do) but I sometimes call some of them brats because some of them genuinely are brats. I wouldn't use that word on most of them though.

flotsam · Joined: 28 Mar 2006

I voted option 4, but if you are including in jest comments, you better ignore my vote. Little punk brats, all my kids are.

**EDIT**

The jests are obviously not at the students. With co-teachers and friends: "Oh you should've seen what my punks did today." etc.

tzechuk · Joined: 20 Dec 2004

I deal with it myself if the kids don't respect me, luckily that doesn't happen much - they mostly just use banmal and I just tell them no banmal or I ignore them.

I don't call people names, either. Kids or not, name calling is childish.

Demophobe · Joined: 17 May 2004

My students respect me as I do them.

sadsac · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: Gwangwang

I don't complain, but I do call the kids bonehead and bubblehead. Smile

Juregen · Joined: 30 May 2006

They respect me.

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

I sometimes call my kids monkeys if they are being naughty, but always in jest. I call them, students, or ladies and gentlemen. My kids call me clgsaem, and every class beings with an insa, and they usually greet me when I see them (and vice versa).

poet13 · Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 5:20 pm Post subject:

To my colleague I sometimes refer to a couple of children in particular as, "my little insane people". I have addressed a 14 year boy, "little boy". He was being particularily peurile (sp?) towards another student. (he stood over her and blew his nose in her hair.) Other than that, I almost always address my students, from 8 to 80, as ladies and gentlemen, or gentlepeople.

Dan The Chainsawman · Joined: 05 May 2005

Calling a kid a name to his face in a language he does not fully understand seems a pointless excercise. Most of the time these days I refused to be troubled with problem children. I glare at them a few times, and if that doesn't work I toss them out of class.

On my own time with other teachers I refer to them as brats, turds, little shits, fart sniffers, and money makers.

ScottyG · Joined: 09 Jun 2006

i need more choices. what about on mondays?

VanIslander · Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 6:28 pm Post subject:

When they are climbing on the big table (no desks in the room) I say

"Come on, get down. You are NOT monkeys."
To which they Shocked

pause
and respond "I'm a monkey!" and climb some more.

Leaves me at least appreciating their proper grammar.

Dan The Chainsawman · Joined: 05 May 2005

Give them a banana next time.

Qinella · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib

Where's the option for "My students respect me"? Generally, the students I teach now are lovely.

PaperTiger · Joined: 31 May 2005 Location: Ulaanbataar

I'm the only foreigner at my job, and some of my co-workers seem a little put out if I ask them to speak to their kids and try to keep them in line. I've resolved to stop discussing it with them and just make sure that this is the last haggie job I ever take. I'm ready for a new form of aggravation, be it with adults or public-school kids, there seems like some small chance it will seem new in some ways.

I don't call them anything. They're perfect little robots when their Korean homeroom teacher is there, and they're totally out of control when I'm in the room. I'm pretty sure I"m burnt out on kids. I don't get mad anymore, I don't get frustrated, I just go back to counting the days on my calendar. Oh, six months left. That's not such a long time.