Nov 6, 2008

Posted by Mark at Thursday, November 06, 2008

Why aren't these kids at my school fluent yet? I was looking over their schedule and depending on their grade and English level they have anywhere from 8 to 14 English classes a week! 4 with a native teacher, 4-6 with a Korean teacher, and then some of them have subject classes in English with a native teacher.

I would have killed for that many useful classes in high school. For Korean students English is extremely important to get into a good University and a good job.

Man, America's education is a joke. Good thing we make up for it in arts and entertainments.

 

3 Comments:

  1. Trevor Raichura said...
    11/6/08, 1:24 PM  
    Amen. I'm equally baffled about my students, who also have 8-16 English classes per week, including 2 with me (the only native English speaker who teaches them).
    Flawed education system, but still not as bad as Canada's.
    Kaylin said...
    11/6/08, 2:57 PM  
    Here here! I envy other countries level of education!
    A bunch of lazy bums we are factoring out over here!
    Anonymous said...
    11/16/08, 12:35 PM  
    you guys have not been immersed in the Honduran school system... they do everything to "look" good but never actually do anything. I am not knocking it they are kinda stuck in what they have but it stinks sometimes.

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