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Government passes new law affecting high school teachers

Posted by: kokopelli5128 in Teaching  

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Yo, I am a high school teacher  in gwacheon.  My head teacher just ACCIDENTALLY told me that students and PARENTS will survey the native teacher at the end of the semester.  So, basically,  high school teachers still cant grade thier classes but the fricken parents (who never come to the classes) can grade you. AARRGGHH! How can the parents affect the renewal of a teacher's contract?

"THE PARENTS" sounds so ominous. Like a bizarro children of the corn.


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are you sure?
written by Tom Kock, March 13, 2010
thanks for coming in. Thats really hard to understand and not really usual. I know that there are many parents teaching days etc, but that one i heard for the first time, are you sure about that? korean parants are really seriuosly about there kids and there TEACHERS, so what you should do is talk to your boss and ask nice what it is about, it sounds for me a that you might missunderstood. please double check the situation and let me know more details.
Tom
Seth Fulton
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written by Seth Fulton, March 17, 2010
yo, I am absolutely sure about this miscarriage of justice. 100% positive.
There are 3 major things that stink about it:
1. They arent telling us up front (at least not me, and I suspect that, by the way my head teacher told me, who i am on good terms with, that they arent supposed to tell the other wayguks)
2. students and parents can grade you but you cant grade them. they dont take our classes seriously.
3. It references korean teachers opinion of the inferiority of our classes and teaching. Ironically, if evaluated independently, our teaching methods are more modern and proven to be more effective. I mean come on, if the korean teachers were actually able to teach english, would it be necessary for the republic to invest all this time and money in bringing over native speakers?

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