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It's time for public school testing again in Korea, a wonderful week in which small children frantically cram for the sake of their futures and very survival. The middle school (Gr. 7-9) exam schedule consists of a whopping TWELVE SUBJECTS including English, Chinese, Korean, math, science, ethics, and some crazy ones that wouldn't count for anything back home like art, home ec. and physical education. It's pretty funny when kids are worried they won't get into university because they can't paint a realistic puppy or jump over a springboard, but pretty sad as well.

Lots of older kids have been ditching hagwon classes in order to buy some desperation study time (ditch school to study... hmmmm). In a dark riposte, we have mercilessly added Speaking Tests to the current upheaval of student evaluations, with some strange results:

Inquisitor: What are these?
Little Girl: *weeps softly*
Inquisitor: Boots. They are boots.

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Inquisitor: How can an English teacher who doesn't know Korean communicate with Korean children who don't know any English?

Elizabeth: A Korean teacher can come. The teacher can said to the Korean teacher, the Korean teacher can said to the children, the children can said to the Korean teacher, the Korean teacher can said to the teacher. Then they learn the English.

Inquisitor: So the Korean teacher could translate?

Elizabeth: Yes. That one is it. Good job!

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Inquisitor: How do you feel?
Eddy: I am hamburger.

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Posted by Chris at 05:13 AM >> Commentations (2)