Compliments

I have said it before and most of you know, but I absolutely love my school.  The students are wonderful little monsters and I genuinely care for them and their English education.  As of late, I have been having some issues, which I will not get into too much but in a meeting with my co-teachers and head English teacher the following situation happened:

Head Co-teacher:

Can I say something.  I think this is all a misunderstanding on your part (to co-teacher) because I got a similar email earlier in the year from Kara.  She was concerned about the behavior of our 3-1 class and pointed out that she needed my help.  Now, I have known Kara for 3 years, and I am not taking sides, but I have heard about Native teachers and have experience with the one before Kara, and I think Kara is one of the best Native teachers in Korea.  I think it is a simple misunderstanding and all she was doing was asking for help and not trying to attack you as a teacher.

Basically, my head teacher stuck up for me and complimented my teaching.  I have heard before that I am a good teacher but it was nice to hear it in this situation because of the issues at hand.  Everything is better now and both, my co-teacher and I, realize it was just a simple misunderstanding that made things difficult for us.

Native English Teachers do not have a good image in Korea.  A lot of people think that we are lazy and overpaid monkeys.  Many people look down on NET's.  Now, I am not saying every NET is perfect, far from it.  I know a few who are worthless as teachers but because they look a certain way and speak English, they are kept on as teachers.  However, I also know just as many, if not more, that are wonderful teachers.  I think the few that are bad apples, sully the name of NET's and give all of us a bad image to Koreans.  Although, I am only one person, it is nice to know that I will be leaving my school with a positive image of NET's because we are not all that bad and most of us do genuinely care about our students.