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[laogaiguk]

Like the title says, I am so bored I just picked out some students who sure need some more English time and set up 2, 20 minute lessons (max 4 to a group, and the groups are from the same class and same sex) a week. The English teacher nearly died when he finally understood I was volunteering to do this (hey, 40 extra minutes a week, honestly, nothing special).

Again, I love public schools. 6-7 (average) hours of hard work at a hagwon or 8 hours (average again) of much less than hard work at a public school.

[schwa]

Good on ya. Nice to see someone putting their underutilized skills & energy to good use. (Eat that, contract-crunchers.)

I like my job too & take on extra duties of my choosing for fun. The kids are great, the stimulation is welcome, & credit from my boss doesnt hurt. He only hears about it afterwards though so he doesnt get a chance to mess it up.

Now someone will jump on this thread saying doing something for nothing emboldens bosses to exploit us. Not my experience though. Everyone benefits.

[Dan The Chainsawman]

I was so bored last week I watched most of the first season of Lost while at school.

[laogaiguk]

[laogaiguk]

[Ya-ta Boy]

Question: When in their schedule are the kids free to come to your remedial class? My students are booked solid and any English is tacked on at the end of the day.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

That's great that you're able to do that. It's also great to see someone who's not a number cruncher calculating out salary and just trying to do his job as best he can.

[laogaiguk]

[laogaiguk]

[AliNZ]

I agree..it's nice to give something back...

have you thought of volunteering at an orphanage at weekends...I've heard there's quite a need for helpers

[sjk1128]

I offered to do the same thing in my middle school, but my teachers turned me down. They said it would cause problems with the other kids and their parents. So nothing for the kids who need extra help, and nothing for the kids who are more advanced at English and would really like to excel....

I've also made people angry by helping one kid who comes by after school during office hours. He's studying to get into a good high school and wants my help. I have to be there until 4:30 anyway and told him to come by any day after 3:30 for extra help. One of my coworkers told me she thought this was a really bad idea, but I can't for the life of me figure out why. I think she's a friend and has my best interests in mind as well, but she said she couldn't really explain all of her reasons. Any explanations out there?

I mean, if there were kids beating down the door to get to me to study extra English, I'd make myself as available as possible and spread out my time, but, so far, he's the only one who asked for any help at all. Why can't I help this kid study? Do they think I'm taking money from him or something?

I love my current public school job, but things like this bewilder me.

[I_Am_Wrong]

she's afraid that crazy adjumma parents will think you're giving to much preference to other students and neglecting their own students. I wanted to do a remedial class at my middle school too. I have all these students that absolutely rule at English and then a few in each class that can't read, can barely read or don't even know the alphabet. I was told no because parents paid to send their kids to hagwons to learn that and they will complain that other students get it for free. I mean, what's the point of a public school if you can't help the students that need help.

Total B.S.

[TheUrbanMyth]

[laogaiguk]

[Dan The Chainsawman]