Don't know if it is only me, but the above video isn't loading past the first minute, but I have so many proxies which could also be a problem. South Korea is making it harder for me to search certain websites that they find offensive--funny that it doesn't include porn, but pity anyone who needs mental help and types in the word suicide, so I by-pass their road blocks using various means.
If they provided more help, instead of obstacles, there might be more kids making alive through exam time right now. Some of my middle school students said that one of their public school classmates committed suicide today and they were in an uproar over it.
I have so many stressed kids, and I have no idea who to tell them to go to for help. I listen to them, but I don't think that is near enough. I tell them to talk to their parents, but the parents are more interested in the kids studying and grades than in their actual well-being.
Exam time in Korea is so rough on those kids. While I know that a lot needs to be done to improve the education system in the US, it should never reach the point where it is as stressful and competitive as it is in Korea. Children should be allowed to be *children* instead of being pressed so hard at such a young age. Of course, hogwan-esq learning centers in the US are on the rise... although that only helps kids whose parents have money and who care. The children - such as the ones in my neighborhood - will still be left behind.
W/ regards to the sex trade, the coersion of girls and young women into the international sex trade is pretty much a problem all over the globe - including here in the US. Of course, in the US it is a lot more difficult to see than in places like Korea, or perhaps Kyrgyzstan.
When I was growing up, it was called "tutoring" for an hour or two each week, but here it is insane--English, math, science, piano, soccer, and art hagwons eat up so much of these kids' after school hours time that it really gets to me. Especially the cramming that goes on before exams.
Plus, with the insane amount of hours that many of their parents work here, the kids really don't get to spend much time with their parents--mostly their dads who are required to spend their free time getting ahead drinking with the boss or playing golf with him. Some of my own co-teachers can't believe it when I miss the mandatory monthly after work dinners. Luckily, I have a great relationship with the boss who understand that sometimes I'm not feeling well or have other plans when they spring up the meal plans an hour before quitting time with no warning. Still my biggest pet peeve about the Korean work environment--no thought to giving advance notice on anything.
This also freaked me out: Surrogate Mothers: Womb for Rent Customer service, tech support...these days we outsource everything to India. So why not pregnancy? Here is a report on the growing number of Indian women willing to carry an American child.
With all the people worried about "global warming," when will there be too many people here? Is it taking advantage of these poor and uneducated women by the rich and their own husbands, or is it a service where both sides gain.
The older I get, the less I understand this world of ours.
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This is also quite interesting.
http://enews.ferghana.ru/article.php?id=1522
Same types of problems as in South Korea and too many other places.
Don't know if it is only me, but the above video isn't loading past the first minute, but I have so many proxies which could also be a problem. South Korea is making it harder for me to search certain websites that they find offensive--funny that it doesn't include porn, but pity anyone who needs mental help and types in the word suicide, so I by-pass their road blocks using various means.
If they provided more help, instead of obstacles, there might be more kids making alive through exam time right now. Some of my middle school students said that one of their public school classmates committed suicide today and they were in an uproar over it.
I have so many stressed kids, and I have no idea who to tell them to go to for help. I listen to them, but I don't think that is near enough. I tell them to talk to their parents, but the parents are more interested in the kids studying and grades than in their actual well-being.
Here is the direct link, which might work better.
Exam time in Korea is so rough on those kids. While I know that a lot needs to be done to improve the education system in the US, it should never reach the point where it is as stressful and competitive as it is in Korea. Children should be allowed to be *children* instead of being pressed so hard at such a young age. Of course, hogwan-esq learning centers in the US are on the rise... although that only helps kids whose parents have money and who care. The children - such as the ones in my neighborhood - will still be left behind.
W/ regards to the sex trade, the coersion of girls and young women into the international sex trade is pretty much a problem all over the globe - including here in the US. Of course, in the US it is a lot more difficult to see than in places like Korea, or perhaps Kyrgyzstan.
When I was growing up, it was called "tutoring" for an hour or two each week, but here it is insane--English, math, science, piano, soccer, and art hagwons eat up so much of these kids' after school hours time that it really gets to me. Especially the cramming that goes on before exams.
Plus, with the insane amount of hours that many of their parents work here, the kids really don't get to spend much time with their parents--mostly their dads who are required to spend their free time getting ahead drinking with the boss or playing golf with him. Some of my own co-teachers can't believe it when I miss the mandatory monthly after work dinners. Luckily, I have a great relationship with the boss who understand that sometimes I'm not feeling well or have other plans when they spring up the meal plans an hour before quitting time with no warning. Still my biggest pet peeve about the Korean work environment--no thought to giving advance notice on anything.
This also freaked me out: Surrogate Mothers: Womb for Rent
Customer service, tech support...these days we outsource everything to India. So why not pregnancy? Here is a report on the growing number of Indian women willing to carry an American child.
http://www.marieclaire.com/world/articles/surrogate-mothers-india
With all the people worried about "global warming," when will there be too many people here? Is it taking advantage of these poor and uneducated women by the rich and their own husbands, or is it a service where both sides gain.
The older I get, the less I understand this world of ours.
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