tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-968381137295383296.post4690255718410914460..comments2023-07-02T05:32:12.061-06:00Comments on A Compendium of Kim: Crime & PunishmentKimberly Egberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12265952303116062879noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-968381137295383296.post-54586896014796007412009-04-25T07:39:00.000-06:002009-04-25T07:39:00.000-06:00I always have a team teacher, so we usually do a '...I always have a team teacher, so we usually do a 'good-cop, bad-cop' routine. I get to be the bad cop, and I love it. First of all, I'm huge, and foreign, and obviously insane. I scare students I'm being friendly to. Within about a day of starting to teach I had made a zero-tolerance policy. Korean teachers use vestigial physical punishments - running laps, deep knee bends, cleaning assignments, the like - to humiliate and torment students. I go straight for demerits, something Korean teachers only use for habitual troublemakers, and putting the fear of God into them.<br /><br />We have these yellow cards. Students know what they mean. Problem students are <I>invited</I> to my office, where we <I>discuss</I> why their behavior is a problem. I keep one of these cards on my desk. I don't use it, I don't mention it, I just play with it. I stroke it like a cat. I look at it, then look at my student, and give my most evil grin, polished by years of gamemastering.<br /><br />I've not had a repeat offender so far.<br /><br />But, as I said to one of my fellow teachers, "I'm getting kind of tired of <I>just</I> threatening. I want to cause some real pain!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-968381137295383296.post-37224341049967054272009-04-24T14:21:00.000-06:002009-04-24T14:21:00.000-06:00That's a good story. I would really like to see t...That's a good story. I would really like to see that "mean" face.Laurenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17773838508441907698noreply@blogger.com