It's been quite a while, and I apologise to those who do read this - things to do, other things to write and before you know it, two or three years have slipped away.
The reason to post again is that quite a lot of things have been happening on the Korean education front, most notable the cut-back on NETs. Native English Teachers. Despite the millions Korean's still spend on English education, the programs such as GEPIK and EPIK seem to have run their course, and are winding down.
To some, this was nothing if not inevitable. To others, 'tis a pity. To me it's meant that I now teach at two schools instead of just one.
And I feel that if money was wasted before, servng two schools really is a waste - the students don't get enough exposure to English as a means of communication as it is, let alone when I am there for only a single period, or two, maybe three at most, in their week.
And if that period is largely taken up by my Korean co-teachers (I now have four) to either explain what I've just said in English in Korean, or to teach the grammar in Korean.
In the excellent TV series, the Big Bang Theory, Sheldon often makes pronouncements about what he'd do if he was king of the world. Well, if I was queen of the world, I'd drastically recast the whole education thing.
How? Think Ken Robinson meets Summerhills meets Montesorri, with a dash of game theory thrown in, and you're getting close.
And if you know none of those, google them and think about it.