RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0

I wish they always just put holidays on the Monday. I know a day off is a day off, but having it in the middle of the week just means we essentially have two Mondays to deal with in the space of a week 

I wish they always just put holidays on the Monday. I know a day off is a day off, but having it in the middle of the week just means we essentially have two Mondays to deal with in the space of a week 

Getting my kids back on track after a mid-week holiday is like herding cats. They don't want to do anything because they just had a day off, and the weekend is just a day or two away. While a holiday is a holiday, I guess, I would greatly prefer a Monday or a Friday off.

Found out yesterday I did pretty much get scammed out of $120 by my MT.

omw to find a cliff ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

Found out yesterday I did pretty much get scammed out of $120 by my MT.

omw to find a cliff ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

How the hell did that happen?

You seriously need to report them. I thought my coteacher last year was psychotic, but your MT takes the cake.

I wish they always just put holidays on the Monday. I know a day off is a day off, but having it in the middle of the week just means we essentially have two Mondays to deal with in the space of a week 

My most disruptive school is on a Wednesday, normally I'd agree. But I'm SUPER happy about having this Wednesday off for a 2nd week. :p

Found out yesterday I did pretty much get scammed out of $120 by my MT.

omw to find a cliff ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

How the hell did that happen?

You seriously need to report them. I thought my coteacher last year was psychotic, but your MT takes the cake.

 basically my Mt came to me and told me I had to pay $40 a month for the monthly hweshiks.

I had to pay 3 months in advance and I asked if I could wire her the money and she said that cash was better. This was like my second week at the school and I still trusted her and we were told during orientation that we probably would have to pay a couple months up front so I didn't really think to question it.

Yesterday the head teacher asked me if I had gone to any of the dinners and I told him no, that I had never been invited.

I asked him when they were, he said the school only has one once a semester but every month the teachers will get together and have one.

Part of me knew that they were just purposely not inviting me, but another part of me was just hoping that there hadn't been one. But nope looks like I got ****** scammed.

Seriously, Bingsu.

WTF

I wish they always just put holidays on the Monday. I know a day off is a day off, but having it in the middle of the week just means we essentially have two Mondays to deal with in the space of a week 

Yeah especially this voting one, it would have been so easy to have it on a Monday!

Found out yesterday I did pretty much get scammed out of $120 by my MT.

omw to find a cliff ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

How the hell did that happen?

You seriously need to report them. I thought my coteacher last year was psychotic, but your MT takes the cake.

 basically my Mt came to me and told me I had to pay $40 a month for the monthly hweshiks.

I had to pay 3 months in advance and I asked if I could wire her the money and she said that cash was better. This was like my second week at the school and I still trusted her and we were told during orientation that we probably would have to pay a couple months up front so I didn't really think to question it.

Yesterday the head teacher asked me if I had gone to any of the dinners and I told him no, that I had never been invited.

I asked him when they were, he said the school only has one once a semester but every month the teachers will get together and have one.

Part of me knew that they were just purposely not inviting me, but another part of me was just hoping that there hadn't been one. But nope looks like I got ****** scammed.

Report her, make a scene. Everything happening is unacceptable. You need to put that woman in her place.

*Last 5 minutes of class*

Me: Alright class, find a partner and practice for the speaking test!

Class: *Blank stare*

Me: Teacher, can you tell them?

CT: Sure. *Goes back to what she was doing*

Class: *Devolves into chaos thinking it's over*

 

Speaking tests begin next week. Dreading.

Speaking tests begin next week. Dreading.

You know they are not that bad (I have been told to be generous...looks like everyone is getting  full marks  )  but after a certain point you reach your limit and start losing focus and end up thinking about food. 

Car parking spaces are too narrow. I've just climbed into my car through the sunroof.

I think the line painters don’t drive.  Same for the dotted curved lines at intersections.

Speaking tests begin next week. Dreading.

waahhhh..i love speaking test week
The teaching/making sure they wrote everything correctly-part isn't the best buttttt sometimes I'll see a really funny or interesting answer.

My Question: I wonder why she is late.
Student's Answer: I'm not sure, but it seems to me that she killed a man.
Me....um........gre at.....

I just took a hard fall from the uneven tiles in our teachers room.  I went down hard.  I'm now going to have a huge bruise on my knee and probably my hip. 

I wish they would fix or replace those stupid things. 

Mandatory CPR training in Korean again. I explained to my co-teacher that it wasn't appropriate for me to attend a Korean CPR training session because I won't understand and it could end up being dangerous if I'm recorded as being CPR trained when I'm not.

"All teachers must attend."

Coincidentally, today I was also told not to give food to the students (I never do this) because a 1st grader choked to death in another school in Chungnam. I don't suppose they'll stop serving lunch, though.

"Didn't someone do the Heimlich maneuver?"
"I don't know."

I found a brief article about it here. Seems that the student choked in the classroom during class and died in hospital.

Did anyone try the Heimlich? Did they know it? Did they do CPR instead? Is the Heimlich maneuver taught to school staff? Where was the school nurse?

I need to go do something distracting because thinking about health and safety here is making my blood boil.

Mandatory CPR training in Korean again. I explained to my co-teacher that it wasn't appropriate for me to attend a Korean CPR training session because I won't understand and it could end up being dangerous if I'm recorded as being CPR trained when I'm not.

"All teachers must attend."
....
I need to go do something distracting because thinking about health and safety here is making my blood boil.

If it makes you feel any better, I doubt the Korean teachers come out of it much more capable of saving a life through the maneuver than you. Any time I've attended these 'training sessions' they've tried to make it the presentations upbeat and casual, the teachers getting very giggly when it comes time to practice on the dummies. But if you're going to perform life-saving CPR, you have to be prepared to break the person rib cage, and then continue pushing. I don't think anyone at my school would have the stomach to do it properly.

Mandatory CPR training in Korean again. I explained to my co-teacher that it wasn't appropriate for me to attend a Korean CPR training session because I won't understand and it could end up being dangerous if I'm recorded as being CPR trained when I'm not.

"All teachers must attend."

Coincidentally, today I was also told not to give food to the students (I never do this) because a 1st grader choked to death in another school in Chungnam. I don't suppose they'll stop serving lunch, though.

"Didn't someone do the Heimlich maneuver?"
"I don't know."

I found a brief article about it here. Seems that the student choked in the classroom during class and died in hospital.

Did anyone try the Heimlich? Did they know it? Did they do CPR instead? Is the Heimlich maneuver taught to school staff? Where was the school nurse?

I need to go do something distracting because thinking about health and safety here is making my blood boil.

Make them not want you there.  Question every instruction: I don't understand, can you say in English please?

They will soon tire of having to put effort into something and excuse you from future endeavours.

Make them not want you there.  Question every instruction: I don't understand, can you say in English please?

They will soon tire of having to put effort into something and excuse you from future endeavours.