Final Testing

[dedalusj]

 I just gave a final test to some of my worst students in my worst class.  As part of the test they have to have a "free-talk" about a topic that I choose.  The topic was sports.  The conversation was entirely, "do you like X sport

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[phxgreenfire]

I do not miss that line of work AT ALL.

[dedalusj]

I am at a University so there is a lot less screaming. and I give them real grades.

[phxgreenfire]

Oh, I was just baby sitting with no real grades. I honestly don't know what made me so sick, but I know it wasn't viral or bacterial. It was all mental. I guess that's why I feel deep down that even after getting the MA I don't want to go back there for more money, less work and all that fun stuff. If anything, I'd want to teach something along the lines of my thesis and I'm sure they'd hang me at Jonggak for teaching a course in "queer studies" in Korea. But, I guess that was part of the problem... I am so open about who I am and don't feel I should have to conceal myself, but had to in Korea. I guess I was shot out of the closet and I'm so far out now that having to go back in seemed more unnatural to me than being in it when I used to be... and ooh, "Golden Girls" is on, so I'm gonna end this here.

[ballisticwits]

huh.

You really should come to our school for a change--ㅎ, here it's sheer hell because everyone is up to neck yet still frigging obsessed with tests to a synchronized, unhealthy degree. There's a pre---uni for you. Gah.

Oh, and here's a debate topic: This House Believes That Japan Should Build Nuclear Weapon. It's for my audition to go as the school representative of the upcoming KHSDC (Korean HighSchool Debate Championship), and a total SOD. If I get gov I have absolutely nothing whatsoever to say. THBT Jap should be terrorized, more like. I hate jap.

I hate chinese, for that matter, because I still have 156 vocab to memorize for tomorrow's test. grr. Life's a bitch.

[beanrows]

Oh, man.

At least you don't have to deal with your students going through your groceries, drawing penises on the board, throwing paper airplanes...or do you? :o

[dedalusj]

None of that, but I do get lots of pictures of 똥, The distraction of boys in the back row playing with another boy's hair, plus the phone calls and incessant texting. There is also the occasional drunk students and what's worse the post-drunk student exuding soju-stank (or in the afternoon, Kimchi breath.)

One day I noticed "케빈 싫어" was written in large letters on a wall in one of the classrooms. I told all my students that as a professor I deserved the respect of at least "케빈선생님을 싫어요" as well as the object marker to clarify that I was not the hating person. I told them it was not the sentiment that bothered me but the lack of repect; what did it say about Korean culture when the students began to stop showing, at least token, respect to their teachers? The bizarreness of my grammar nazi/pro-confusism agrument was strangely effective.

[tharp42]

Ah yes, the shameful and sheepish "sorry."