Ooh man, if that's your job you're going to love teaching university kids. (Seriously.)
Language schools are businesses, first and foremost. That bugs the shit out of me and was ultimately the reason why I decided I just couldn't handle working there anymore.
Sorry I haven't had the time to respond to your email. I did receive it and, yet again, you have my utmost thanks for the encouraging words. I'll be waiting for April with bated breath, and will search for a TEFL or TESOL course with in-class weekend workshops for certification.
I've decided to also apply to the Bilkent program as something of a safety application. My sights are still dead-set on Istanbul, but if in the end it wasn't meant to be (there's always that chance, but I'm forcing myself to think positively), I still have something of a fallback. The pay is crummy (I think), and the location is bleak, but I can spend a year living at the gym and getting a free CELTA before moving on to greener pastures (as you did, although I'd obviously prefer starting in those pastures).
Again, thanks for everything you've done, and I'm sure I'll have a bajillion more questions in the near future. Actually, I already do, but they're rather trifling and I don't want to lean too hard.
I've said it before. Probably the greatest obstacle Korean kids face in really learning English are their Korean mothers. Their batshit, snobby, hypersensitive, over-indulging, dumbfuck cunt mothers.
so how did YOU deal with those kinds of batshit, snobby, hypersensitive, over-indulging, dumbfuck cunt mothers? Did you bend over and take shit like that or did you do what Ryan did? I dont know what is considered normal in Korea but I also find the attitude of the school in this instance to be rather appalling.
I had numerous similar situations last year. Always refused to apologize, and in the last instance told my boss to go fuck himself, along with a similar suggestion in Korean and hand gesture just to make sure the point got across, walked out of the room and went home.
I was fired a few days later (just weeks before the end of my contract and completion bonus), but it was more or less worth it.
The attitude of the school is appalling, but it's not really out of the hagwon norm. Foreigners in general are at the very bottom and outside of the social order here, and foreign teachers all the more so. As shit rolls downhill, it's always gonna land right on the first convenient westerner.
One of the problems (indeed the greatest problem) is how it happened.
See, if he came up to me, and asked me what happened and why I think it happened, then simply said he understood I didn't do anything wrong (which was very clear), and ASK if I would be willing to write a fake apology just so we can appease the nutty mother, I probably would have gone along with it. Instead, he came to me, insulted me and my teaching abilities, and started hurling demands in my face. Then he proceeded to insult me, and was surprised when I wouldn't sit and take it.
That's bad management, and he's an asshole. Support your fucking staff.
Some parents live in a fantasy world. If she honestly thinks her kid or any other hasn't heard worse than "ugly", "stinky" or "loser" on a daily basis by other kids she's truly batshit insane. What, is she gonna forbid her kid from taking the bus everyday? Because I assure you more than a few f-bombs will be dropped on that bad boy, and I can only imagine how giddy it makes ESL kids to use English curse words when gossiping.
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Language schools are businesses, first and foremost.
That bugs the shit out of me and was ultimately the reason why I decided I just couldn't handle working there anymore.
Good luck with things.
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Sorry I haven't had the time to respond to your email. I did receive it and, yet again, you have my utmost thanks for the encouraging words. I'll be waiting for April with bated breath, and will search for a TEFL or TESOL course with in-class weekend workshops for certification.
I've decided to also apply to the Bilkent program as something of a safety application. My sights are still dead-set on Istanbul, but if in the end it wasn't meant to be (there's always that chance, but I'm forcing myself to think positively), I still have something of a fallback. The pay is crummy (I think), and the location is bleak, but I can spend a year living at the gym and getting a free CELTA before moving on to greener pastures (as you did, although I'd obviously prefer starting in those pastures).
Again, thanks for everything you've done, and I'm sure I'll have a bajillion more questions in the near future. Actually, I already do, but they're rather trifling and I don't want to lean too hard.
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I was fired a few days later (just weeks before the end of my contract and completion bonus), but it was more or less worth it.
The attitude of the school is appalling, but it's not really out of the hagwon norm. Foreigners in general are at the very bottom and outside of the social order here, and foreign teachers all the more so. As shit rolls downhill, it's always gonna land right on the first convenient westerner.
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See, if he came up to me, and asked me what happened and why I think it happened, then simply said he understood I didn't do anything wrong (which was very clear), and ASK if I would be willing to write a fake apology just so we can appease the nutty mother, I probably would have gone along with it. Instead, he came to me, insulted me and my teaching abilities, and started hurling demands in my face. Then he proceeded to insult me, and was surprised when I wouldn't sit and take it.
That's bad management, and he's an asshole. Support your fucking staff.
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