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Isn't it important to eat?

 
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Alyallen



Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The 4th Greatest Place on Earth = Jeonju!!!
PostPosted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 8:23 pm    Post subject: Isn't it important to eat? Reply with quote
I have to wonder about my school. They decided to renovate the kitchen so that the kitchen staff can make better food or whatever. That's a great idea except the kitchen isn't finished. So this past week, the school changed it's schedule. So instead of 4 classes before lunch, they have jam packed 6 classes in almost the exact same time frame. The kids get to go home early so they can eat food at their home instead of at school.

This doesn't bother me except for
-Teachers deciding to keep their students in their class without even sending someone to let my co-teacher and I know.
-My after school students still have to come in. So they get to see their friends leave and know that they get to eat at their homes and they only have kimbap to look forward to....

This past week has been ok since I only taught my middle and high level classes which are very small. But Monday and Tuesday I have classes of 30 who probably get no food and I will have to teach them.

What annoys me is that every extra class for all the other subjects have been canceled but I'm supposed to deal with 30 hungry 1st and 2nd graders followed by 27 hungrier 3rd and 4th graders and then 17 really hungry 5th and 6th graders tomorrow....The HORROR Shocked
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Jizzo T. Clown



Joined: 27 Mar 2006
Location: at my wit's end
PostPosted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 8:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
You oughta do a lesson on food. Twisted Evil
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sojourner1



Joined: 17 Apr 2007
Location: Where meggi swim and 2 wheeled tractors go sput put chug alugg pug pug
PostPosted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 8:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Jizzo T. Clown wrote:
You oughta do a lesson on food. Twisted Evil


Very funny, that would really break their morale even more.

My elementary and middle school students are always hungry, complaining, negative, and unhappy in the late afternoons when they come to hagwon after leaving public school. I don't think they are eating much of anything during the day.

This makes it so hard for me to teach those classes as it's an everyday ordeal that is burning me out. I dread it...
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Alyallen



Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The 4th Greatest Place on Earth = Jeonju!!!
PostPosted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 11:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
sojourner1 wrote:
Jizzo T. Clown wrote:
You oughta do a lesson on food. Twisted Evil


Very funny, that would really break their morale even more.

My elementary and middle school students are always hungry, complaining, negative, and unhappy in the late afternoons when they come to hagwon after leaving public school. I don't think they are eating much of anything during the day.

This makes it so hard for me to teach those classes as it's an everyday ordeal that is burning me out. I dread it...


Oh Jizzo....Too tempting..Too tempting by far...

sojourner1: I hear ya. The kitchen is being renovated so the kitchen staff can actually cook better food. I think the kids do eat at school, since I eat in the lunchroom with them and see them afterwards with food all over their face Laughing The problem is that they stuff themselves with sugar which oftentimes makes them feel hungrier than they should...Poor little bastards...full and yet starving. It totally sucks to teach hungry brats..
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wylies99



Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!
PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 1:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Wow, OP, I can tell you actually work in a hogwan! Hungry kids is a common problem for me, too. Korean mommy buses her kids to afternoon classes on empty tummies all of the time.
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Alyallen



Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The 4th Greatest Place on Earth = Jeonju!!!
PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 2:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
wylies99 wrote:
Wow, OP, I can tell you actually work in a hogwan! Hungry kids is a common problem for me, too. Korean mommy buses her kids to afternoon classes on empty tummies all of the time.


Dude...that's the sick thing. I work in a public school Shocked

I usually have these students right after lunch but now there is no kitchen, so there is no lunch.
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wylies99



Joined: 13 May 2006
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 3:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
That's inexcusable.

I guess teaching a lesson about fried chicken, pizza, cheeseburgers, and ice cream would probably start a riot! Laughing
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Alyallen



Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The 4th Greatest Place on Earth = Jeonju!!!
PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 4:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
wylies99 wrote:
That's inexcusable.

I guess teaching a lesson about fried chicken, pizza, cheeseburgers, and ice cream would probably start a riot! Laughing


LMAO...

I am going to find out tomorrow what the situation is and if it is as bad as I fear it will be, I'm going to show each class movies as a a protest against this stupidness. Maybe I'm overreacting, but you can't have kids eat nothing from 8:40 until 1, 2 or 3 in the afternoon and expect anything slightly productive to occur in the classroom...
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ontheway



Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 5:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
You see how wrong you can be when you're biased against hogwans, Wylies99. At my hogwan, when the Wonjangnim spots a hungry student, she manages to find some food to feed the kid. If several students are hungry, we'll provide a decent snack for the whole class (not junk food).

More and more on here we hear of teachers being cheated and mistreated in public schools.

The reality is that it isn't the type of school, but the individuals involved, managers, teachers, parents and students, that make the difference.
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Alyallen



Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The 4th Greatest Place on Earth = Jeonju!!!
PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 5:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
ontheway wrote:
You see how wrong you can be when you're biased against hogwans, Wylies99. At my hogwan, when the Wonjangnim spots a hungry student, she manages to find some food to feed the kid. If several students are hungry, we'll provide a decent snack for the whole class (not junk food).

More and more on here we hear of teachers being cheated and mistreated in public schools.

The reality is that it isn't the type of school, but the individuals involved, managers, teachers, parents and students, that make the difference.


To be fair, I am not being cheated or mistreated, those poor kids are. I can only see the lay of the land tomorrow and plan accordingly because well...this is Korea, no one plans ahead....
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