Very varied.
First year I taught kindergarten in the morning (9:30-2:30) then elementary from 1-4 in stages until 7:30pm
Second year was much the same, but mostly just elementary 1-4 and a very little 5-7.
Third year was my best school and I took on loads of responsibility. I taught a little elementary but most of my work was grade 6-12. I spearheaded the highest level students (pre-teens with nearly perfect TOEFL scores) and the lowest (high schoolers in extreme remedial English) -- and I loved them both. All about expectations and making connections; I daresay I am more proud of what we did with the lower level students.
Fourth year was a step down in quality. Still mostly elementary but I did lay the groundwork for a great middle school curriculum before I left to move back to the US.
Edit: to answer your question kids usually come in waves so you don't go between levels often. Pre-K and K during school hours, elementary right after, middle and high school in afternoon and evenings.
Some of my students had academies until midnight.
Kids are significantly less cruel than adults. In fact, most of the time they are just honest.
The quick and easy answer is to abuse kids.
The reality is probably a bit more complicated. Michael Jackson was a weird dude who was always around kids - but probably never did anything inappropriate, despite the outward appearances - most people think it was because he was never allowed to have his own childhood.
These people are all damaged in some way. Maybe single parent, maybe abused, maybe autistic, maybe maybe maybe.
I just don't know how anyone could read this and not say "wow a profile in mental illness"
Absolutely loved the "countryside" - a misnomer in Korea since even cities of 1-2mil people are considered "the country" because they aren't Seoul.
It was a blast, too. Especially my really high level teenage classes. But I loved all of my students, from K to high school. It was a different challenge every day.
FWIW I entirely and whole-heartedly agree with you.
The problem, as someone else pointed out, is that the Left is not interested in compromise. They know (okay -- some of them know) that these articles are misleading or fabricated, but they don't care.
You and I are sitting here ready to compromise at the rape/incest line, but they'll never agree there. Ever. Look at this clip of Catherine Foster throwing this at Jamie Raskin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCh6hwJdAg4 -- he completely ignores and moves on.
Our enemy wants to crush us. They want elective abortions for any reason up to and beyond viability and they will use rape and incest victims to achieve it.
So what are we to do, then? Step in between the absolutist pro-lifers and the pro-abortionists? To what gain?
I spent 5 years teaching English in Korea. I absolutely loved my job most of the time (i.e. when I was allowed to be a teacher who educated students). I took it seriously and took pride in what I did.
But FUCK ME there are so many pathetic Americans there. Especially in Seoul -- people who treat their life in Korea as "oh my gap year abroad teehee" and who see their job as 'the annoying thing that gets in the way of my partying.'
I'm sure it's similar in Japan, too.
What I'm saying is that these people are emotional fucking morons who rely on pushing their worldview everywhere because they can't stand to exist outside of it.
Phyllis Schlafly was 100% right.
Given the 'normal' storytelling and lack of woke elements in that movie I am surprised Lady Gaga didn't release that song as Stefani Germanotta.
In fact, come to think of it -- unless I missed it the flambouyant lady has been pretty quiet on the political stuff lately. I wonder if she sees the writing on the wall and is shifting into "conservatives listen to music, too" mode.
They couldn't milk Ukraine for more than 4 months, why do you think they'll be able to keep this as CURRENT THING for more than that?
Vehemently disagree with #2, and I think it's laughable to even entertain the idea
There's a myriad of good, sound arguments as to why #2 would never pass any form of Constitutional scrutiny, but on top of those:
After bitching for two years that the government needs to stay out of my personal life, I'm not going to endorse violating privacy and chasing people down for ostensibly legal acts in other states. How would you feel if your state reinstated prohibition, and then tried to prosecute people who drank out of state? It's the same logic under the Dobbs decision
The extreme optimist in me wonders if this is what it took to make Roberts realize that his days as a milquetoast middle ground need to end.
The left will never be sated. As soon as you cross them in any way, it's Schumer's and Garland's assassins at YOUR doorstep. Appeasement will never work. It cannot. I pray Roberts realized it.
I'll have enough faith for both of us, then, fren.
Seat at the table is always open.
You're a cynic.
The decision was 6-3. I believe the initial leak was 5-4, with Roberts trying to convince the conservative bloc to not be so... definitive in their ruling.
The leak directly led to Roberts being more conservative. It's a white pill.
In light of the SCOTUS decision, I'd just like to make a PSA to all who are gnashing their teeth today:
Your bodily autonomy is not, in any way, under attack. Your autonomy needs to start before you spread your legs.
Indeed.
Also, even though it's self-serving, I must add:
Anything that causes the left and social media to collectively lose their shit as is currently happening just warms the cockles of my heart.
Between the gun decision and this decision in the last two days, you can almost feel the conservative wing of the court trying to pull us back.
The "bipartisan gun bill" that was in the news days before is essentially a dead man walking now -- there's no way Red Flag Laws stand up to the scrutiny of the precedent just set by SCOTUS. Granted, it will take years to get to that point, but the precedent is important.
This decision, much like yesterday's, is decisive. A cultural earthquake just got set off, and the majority didn't mince words. Roe and Casey were mistakes, and egregious ones, at that.
In the big scheme, it's probably a small victory - one that portends much more fighting in even bigger battles, but it gives me hope. The slide can be arrested. We aren't doomed.
I bought my first gun during the summer of love -- on a saturday morning it (edit: the background check) took about 5 minutes.
Perhaps being deep in red middle america played a part.
Good god thats a name I haven't heard in a while.
He was just one of the first to get drunk off of fleeting internet notoriety.
It's a fair point here, but:
"normal" in a psychological sense is very different from "normal" in a medical sense.
It's a maladaptive behavior, sure, but it's been documented in various ways for centuries. I'd assume as far back as recorded history goes, in fact. Very different from the current "I can actually change my gender" mindset.
I know it's an unpopular opinion, but there's a very important demarcation line between "men who get off in some way on dressing like women" and "men who believe by wearing a wig and makeup they can become women."
Because third wave feminism opened the door to academics embracing the long-discredited theory of Tabula Rasa and preaching that everyone is equal and it's society that creates sexual dimorphism.
Yeah, it is a "normal" deviation. Common and by itself not a genetic end point (many transvestites, historically, have been otherwise straight men).
Its not my cup of tea, but it's pretty normal and wouldn't be an issue if we kept our weird sexual quirks to ourselves.
Isn't human psychology fun?
You mentioned you were in Aus, which means there is a slightly different dynamic than the usa - you mentioned tall poppy syndrome, which I actually researched for my senior capstone 13 years ago.
What is most likely is there are some bots and inorganic users -- they are going to be your most vitriolic. But what they are also doing is providing an anchor point for discussion. They start being rude and inorganically upvoting themselves, and normies will fall in line because that is the cultural expectations they have grown up with.
Same is true in China and eastern collectivist societies (different culture and different manifestation, but same principle). Same is true in Europe to a much lesser extent (but the highest concentration would be in cucked, pro-eu countries in the west - belgians for example).
Don't really have much of that here in the US. Or... we didnt. Universities are creating fragile adults who are terrified of not doing things the 'consensus' agrees with.
My big point is this: I bet there are a good number of organic users also dog piling you because consensus has been curated to say its okay. So many people are blind psychological followers nowadays, and it is a major contributing factor in so many shitty governments. They dont need to build real consensus - just a loud minority.
Sorry its happening to you.
That's one thing the team is working on -- originally it was just P.Win and then the other .wins sprung off from there. There should be a tab at the top of the screen with some generic communities
There's also https://communities.win/c/all which can be hit or miss given how small some communities are. No, they're not separate websites but they look like they are given the drastic theme changes from one to another.
There's a lot of potential here, truthfully.
I assume I'm like most here -- most of my primary engagement these days comes on the .wins, but there are a couple small communities I still frequent on Spezzit. One of them is /r/KotakuInAction2 which I'm sure is about to get banned, too, but at least we have here.
And we don't need to worry about offending the reddit trannies.
Right on.
I tried to balance that; I really did. I tried to teach while making class time as low-stress as possible because these kids are in school 12-16 hours a day 6 days a week.
I was certainly unorthodox compared to the Korean teachers, but fuck it, I got results.