| some musings |
[Jan. 20th, 2007|03:52 pm] |
(Posted previously on MySpace since Qualied's computers don't like Live Journal!)
The drought is over, not that anyone was waiting with baited breath for me to blog but none the less, it has been quite a while.
Well, back at Qualied Ed. I read a very interesting article in the NY Times (on line) on education and it was talking about the percentage of Asian students at Berkley. It is something like 70 percent of the student body. It was also talking about Affirmative Action and that since it has been removed the percentages of African-Americans and Hispanics has dropped while the Asian enrollment has skyrocketed. Ok, why is that interesting to me...well I'm in China and the stereotype of most Asians to Americans (as the article states) is that they don't talk in class, respect their teacher and other authority figures, and they study continuously. This image is the exact opposite at Qualied Ed. I can't quite figure out how or why there is such a discrepancy. I could just say that Qualied Ed is an enigma and a special case, but many of my co-worker and friends also work at schools that are like QED or even worse. Ok, so these are the worst schools in the system (all countries have bad schools) but even during the summer camps I only had like one or two out of six respectful classes (and again, I wasn't the only one).
It has been suggested that one reason for this is because the better schools don't want to farm out their English lessons; they want to use their in-house teachers. However, even is that is true, the lower schools represent a good number of students in China (or at least Hong Kong...I don't know, maybe China is better?). Ok, so that is a quandary that I am still trying to find an answer to. |
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My very good friend Paul Wilson is in South Korea right now teaching english. He just went there a few months back. AU grad... He's on my top friends list on myspace. You could ask him if the students are better there. He is working for a public school..
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