Teachers' involvement in perpetuating problems

[Charlie_Jack]

@yuli

Isn’t that [i. e., prostitutes–my note–cj] what most foreign “English teachers” are in Taiwna, Japan, Korea, China?

15 y.o. boys pimping 12 y.o. girls from Taiwan?!

Isn’t that what most foreign “English teachers” are in Taiwna, Japan, Korea, China?

@yuli

This kind of nonsense would disappear very quickly if people like you were to refuse to pretend to be teachers in these kinds of circumstances. (Please note that this is not meant as an accusation or to blame you personally - I know very well that as an individual acting . . . alone you would be powerless to make a difference even if you refused to participate in this nonsense any longer - but the sum total of all the “native speaker English teachers” in the system doing what they are doing ensures that this kind of problem is being perpetuated.

So foreign teachers are whores, but whores who are nonetheless expected to live by the highest ideals.

Years ago I happened to see an old friend’s dad at the checkout counter of a supermarket. He didn’t see me, so I had the privilege of watching the old fellow in action as he berated the cashier for the price of a food item, as well as for some other shortcomings over which the cashier had no control whatsoever.

In my country there is the saying, “I just work here.” yuli, we just work here.

@yuli

Don’t you agree that it would be helpful if all the people who are in the business of teaching English were to think more deeply about what they are doing - and especially about what they are not doing - that perpetuates the problems they are rightly complaining about?

Grammar above my pay grade!

Yes, it could have been - and in that case, quite like with the sentence that was mentioned at the beginning of this discussion, “in the park” would be an adverbial of place and “a tree” the subject. [quote]You can call this the subject or not, I’ve seen different interpretations, but it’s irrelevant to the question at hand… The question at hand is the verb form which can appear after this element, whatever you care to call it, which is filling the place of the subject in this …

I think many teachers’ situation here is more like what one of our Marine drill instructors told us recruits in an unguarded moment: “If you think about this s*** too much, it’s gonna blow your f***in’ mind.”