tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post9093635351026317623..comments2024-02-23T23:53:54.842+09:00Comments on Gusts Of Popular Feeling: SMOE budget passedmatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296009437690229938noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-86609207457919867572011-12-19T15:13:58.660+09:002011-12-19T15:13:58.660+09:00Nice find. She also mentions, approvingly, that on...Nice find. She also mentions, approvingly, that one teacher spent his own money to study Korean and liked Korean food, which may have offset his OK work attitude and his tendency to focus on kids who could already talk.<br /><br />A friend of mine, who is the KTU rep at his school, told me the KTU's POV on the budget was that it should be spread more equally among the important subjects. I never got to delve into the topic with him fully, but he did mention that he'd heard the SMOE teacher training institute (with NSETs helping train Korean English teachers, a program my friend benefited from) is supposed to be cut, which really makes no sense, as that's a program which should really be supported.matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10296009437690229938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-14487777332194455692011-12-19T12:04:29.757+09:002011-12-19T12:04:29.757+09:00From 한희정's bio: "대학 시절 전교조 충북지부 선생님들과 &qu...From 한희정's bio: "대학 시절 전교조 충북지부 선생님들과 "민족교육연구모임""마을공동체교육과정연구소" 활동을 함께 했습니다."<br /><br />Lol. No surprise that someone affiliated with the Korean Teachers & Education Workers' Union and the Minjok Education Research Group would argue, most disingenuously, that "It's easy to be a native speaking teacher" and come down in favor of free lunches for all over equal access to native-speaker ESL instructors.<br /><br />As I argued in a previous thread, the nation trumps class in the mind of the ethno-nationalist. I'm sure lower-income students who cannot afford private English lessons at hagwons will be happy to know that they are, in effect, subsidizing the free lunches of upper-income students, since it's "all for the good of the nation" in the end.<br /><br />I pity the poor students who have to endure such self-pitying, wet-blanket, whiny teachers. No wonder so many Koreans hate English!King Baeksuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15106210206814275410noreply@blogger.com