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fandomsecrets2012-09-06 07:10 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2012-09-06 07:10 pm
[ SECRET POST #2074 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2074 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Notes:
Important: I'm really sorry about this, but I accidentally misclicked and deleted the submission post from last week instead of saving it. Managed to save the first page (25) of secrets, but the rest (about 100 or so) are gone.
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Re: Crazy-ass people stories.
Next up: Hyunjae fight da Man!
Future editions:
-Hyunjae invites herself to dinner.
-Hyunjae's strange fashion sense and age crisis.
-Hyunjae's craziness is ramped up by midterms
-I am momentarily saved from Hyunjae's craziness
More to follow....
Hyunjae fights da Man!
So we last left off with me discomfitted by the idea of a teacher who is widely regarded by both coworkers and students as being a bit of a nutcase. Still, I wasn't one to immediately judge, and figured as long as she left me the hell alone and didn't allow it to interfere with work, I was okay. Oh I was so wrong.
As a bit of background for this next part, during my first blurry night in Korea, Hyunjae imparted to me she wanted to teach literature in our shared class, because she specialized in literature when she studied in California. At the time, it struck a wrong note with me, because I new we weren't teaching a literature course together, but I let it go.
Sometime during the next few days, I was walking somewhere with a fellow coteacher, Nick. As we walked, I asked, "Should Hyunjae be teaching literature in a public speaking class?"
At this, Nick snorted a laugh. "Is she still doing that? She tried doing that last semester, with another co-teacher. Technically, not, she's not supposed to, but she did anyway."
Within our first week or two of school starting proper, all teachers were required to create and submit a syllabus of our course to administration to be reviewed. Hyunjae's semi-crazed gaze and skulking became more furtive, and subsequently became more scattered brained.
It eventually became clear that this syllabus was not going to be submitted by the deadline. All of the other teacher had little problem with this, within a day or two of the due date. In our school, we had a fairly relaxed set of procedures, so no one was banging down her door to get it.
In the meanwhile, I was expected to proofread and give feedback on what she had already created. Imagine my surprise when such things like Derrida and others like that were present. Remember, this was a Korean high school, folks. Could you imagine being saddled with reading Derrida at 18?
Nevermind that, it had fuckall to do with public speaking, which was what the course we were teaching together was all about. Still not entirely sure of my place as a foreigner in a Korean school, I was pretty tentative about approaching her about it. Not to mention I had never taught like this before-- I had done a semester of teaching basic Arabic in college, but nothing like this.
One of the things Hyunjae loved to do was isolate me from other teachers. If we had to meet somewhere for collaboration on classwork, we would always meet in the lab upstairs on the 3rd floor. This is where she requested to see me to discuss the syllabus.
"Uhm," I started. "I'm not sure that this has a place in public speaking."
"Oh sure! It has a great basis in critical thought, and I get the students to discuss it in class!"
Right. Derrida totally had that public speaking shit down.
"Did you get it cleared by Aeja?" Aeja was the head of the English department, and she oversaw the course curriculum before it got sent to admin.
"No, not yet. But I think it has a good place in our class! It's okay, I will handle all of this stuff, and you can concentrate on public speaking."
Catch that? In a course about public speaking, she would "let me" handle all of that stuff, while she did something completely irrelevant to the course and did nothing about the public speaking part.
Super good.
So I left her with the syllabus, and talked to our boss proper, and told her Hyunjae was keen on incorporating lit in our class, but not doing any of the actual coursework associated. Aeja's pretty face fell. "Okay, thank you Khronos. I will talk to her," she said, with a touch of exasperation in her tone.
Hyunjae didn't hand in her syllabus. Not right away, anyway. Instead, she passed it out to our shared class of senior, of which we had two sections. I wasn't there for the initial handout, but when I got into class the following week, the final edition still wasn't done.
On my first class with the students, when it's technically illegal to leave foreign teachers alone in the classroom, Hyunjae ditched me to, "Finish up the syllabus."
Fine fine, whatever. I had a lesson already written up, and she had already made it perfectly clear to me that I was going to be the only one to handle the public speaking.*
When she finally submitted the final syllabus to administration, she had already gotten several warnings not to use literature in her course. She had even gotten a sit-down to tell her explicitly not to use it in the course, she already had another literature course to do that with.
"But I don't have enough time to teach it all," she would whine. She took personal offense at having to share her literature class with a foreign teacher, and felt that she had the most expertise to teach it. In fact, in that course, for the first few weeks, she never let Chris, the coteacher, get a word in edgewise.
Finally, he went to the boss and talked to her about not being able to teach, or when he would talk, he would get interrogated by Hyunjae, or have his analysis shot down. The principle and VP sat her down and basically told her to knock it the fuck off. At this point, they literally had to separate their classes, so they would teach alone, because she was so hostile to Chris.
*A month or two later, on having pressure from the boss, she hamfistedly put together a presentation ganked from part of my course material, just so she could have some say in the public speaking part. It didn't go over well, but I could see her teaching style- when she wasn't taking personal offense from student's honest questions, she handled it like an interrogation and sporadically broke into Korean to browbeat them into listening.