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Thanks Larry, your kind words are much appreciated ( and in full, grammatically correct sentences which I seldom hear here!). On a different note, a while back Glenski wrote: -------- It DOES say something for the way students' overall progress is reported in the media, though. Isn't it interesting,...

Hi, I'm pretty lucky in that I teach at a private high school in Korea and the kids are scared of failing or being kicked out, but I have found lack of interest to be the problem which is often the same in any classroom and can lead to bad behaviour. My conversation class grade is divided into 20% e...

Hi, I'm teaching at a foreign language high school here in Korea and we most definately have our grades fixed. For subjective grading like making journal entries and participation grades we had last years grades "adjusted" often to 100%. For exams we specifically do multi-choice so that no students ...