Also ranting about Koreans creating dummy accounts to defend their shitshows. Ffs
Ah. The request must've been deleted before I saw it.
Quote from: kyndo on September 17, 2019, 11:06:07 amAh. The request must've been deleted before I saw it. Says it’s still pending.
Quote from: thunderlips on September 17, 2019, 11:55:39 amQuote from: kyndo on September 17, 2019, 11:06:07 amAh. The request must've been deleted before I saw it. Says it’s still pending. Bizarre.Maybe it's above my paygrade?
Can you see mine? It's pending approval, too.
Quote from: Chinguetti on September 17, 2019, 12:03:05 pmCan you see mine? It's pending approval, too. No, nada.Apparently you guys need the kind of oversight that a lowly lvl 1 just isn't qualified to provide.
Hmmm, now I'm thinking 'on a motorbike, an ashtray, as useful as' It's shame as you'd be on these approvals like a pigeon on a chip.
Quote from: Ronnie Omelettes on September 17, 2019, 12:20:46 pmHmmm, now I'm thinking 'on a motorbike, an ashtray, as useful as' It's shame as you'd be on these approvals like a pigeon on a chip. I dunno. I'm not exactly to be trusted with authority of any kind.
Quote from: kyndo on September 17, 2019, 01:08:54 pmI dunno. I'm not exactly to be trusted with authority of any kind.So essentially, you're in charge of the bee?Just out of interest, do you have a 'Best Driver' jacket you wear to assert authority out and about?
I dunno. I'm not exactly to be trusted with authority of any kind.
I wonder if they do it because they know they don't need to put any effort into their actual teaching. They've probably taught the same material day in day out for the past 20 years so they're way past the point of having to put any effort in. Also teachers don't seem to be strictly evaluated here like they are in the UK (just my own point of reference) so again they can just get away with it.
Finally, I got an answer. For the longest time, I couldn't understand why all my classes are fitted with more than a dozens fluorescent lights, why my CTs insist on turning every one of them on regardless of incoming sunlight and why everything in Korea is generally lit up to 6500k. I wasn't getting straight answers and I initially assumed that was some kind of collectivist mindset that everything bright is "good". Turns out, it's the parents and their belief in BS.My CTs make sure that every light is searing through my corneas to prevent any wrath from parents. Apparently, anything dimmer than an upscale department store makeup isle, will certainly lead to permanent eye damage, according to the parents. I'm not sure from which quack they got this information, but it's right up there with fan-death and only blonde-haired and blue-eyed people being native English speakers. It's a myth that dim lighting causes eye damage. It does cause eye-strain, which tires your vision quicker, but no damage at all. Furthermore, the absence of brightness is NOT dimness, it's a range measured in Kelvin, for God's sake. I think we can blame binary thinking again. The reason this bothers me is that, at the front of the class, I'm standing under the full-fury of the insanely bright lights. I also took it upon myself, as a teacher, to make a few students (the future of this country) understand the environmental cost of wasting electricity. Now, I'm not such a bastard that I'm going to put my CT, who is terrified of the parents, in the line of fire by... turning off a light (was hard to write that). I'll let her have her way, but I'll keep teaching my students to be responsible with their electricity usage. It's also pretty laughable that parents are concerned about their kids being subjected to a single Kelvin under 6500k, while happily allowing them to hold a smartphone 3cm from their noses, for half the time their eyes are open.
Quote from: Aristocrat on September 19, 2019, 12:36:26 pmFinally, I got an answer. For the longest time, I couldn't understand why all my classes are fitted with more than a dozens fluorescent lights, why my CTs insist on turning every one of them on regardless of incoming sunlight and why everything in Korea is generally lit up to 6500k. I wasn't getting straight answers and I initially assumed that was some kind of collectivist mindset that everything bright is "good". Turns out, it's the parents and their belief in BS.My CTs make sure that every light is searing through my corneas to prevent any wrath from parents. Apparently, anything dimmer than an upscale department store makeup isle, will certainly lead to permanent eye damage, according to the parents. I'm not sure from which quack they got this information, but it's right up there with fan-death and only blonde-haired and blue-eyed people being native English speakers. It's a myth that dim lighting causes eye damage. It does cause eye-strain, which tires your vision quicker, but no damage at all. Furthermore, the absence of brightness is NOT dimness, it's a range measured in Kelvin, for God's sake. I think we can blame binary thinking again. The reason this bothers me is that, at the front of the class, I'm standing under the full-fury of the insanely bright lights. I also took it upon myself, as a teacher, to make a few students (the future of this country) understand the environmental cost of wasting electricity. Now, I'm not such a bastard that I'm going to put my CT, who is terrified of the parents, in the line of fire by... turning off a light (was hard to write that). I'll let her have her way, but I'll keep teaching my students to be responsible with their electricity usage. It's also pretty laughable that parents are concerned about their kids being subjected to a single Kelvin under 6500k, while happily allowing them to hold a smartphone 3cm from their noses, for half the time their eyes are open. ironically, i've heard that focusing constantly on something near to you (i.e. from studying too much) causes eye damage. i guess that's not something the parents want to hear/believe though