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Q: How do you deal with children being regularly pulled out of your class for other activities?

This happens with a few of the children in my class, but with one in particular.

 

This last week, the children have had assessments.  The one who regularly gets pulled out of class did quite well, but he would have done better had he not been taken out of my classes on a regular basis.  For example, it's happened every day this week.  He gets taken away, often by the director/principal for piano classes.

 

The children in my class are only three-seven years old (mixed ages), but it is really frustrating me.  I get no warning that this is going to happen - what time, or how often.  I never have been, and probably never will be consulted on whether it is ok, or what days/time it could be ok.

 

It's one of a large number of complaints I have in this school where I am at.  There are a large number of others, and I would like to quit, but, now is not a good time to quit as I need another job to go to.

10 years 46 weeks ago in  Teaching & Learning - China

 
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I hear you!

It is oftentimes frustrating that we (the foreign teachers) are never consulted and rarely informed about changes in our schedule.  When I taught in Guilin, oftentimes I would get to class and no one would arrive. I would call the Class Monitor and ask what was wrong only to be told that they were receiving a "special lecture" or activity or some such. The school would never have the courtesy to inform me that I would not have a class that day. If this happened on the main campus, it was an annoyance, but if it happened on the "New" campus it was a real pain in the butt as I would be stuck there the full day (5 pm bus) in a small campus in a tiny village with nothing to do at all and no comfortable place to so much as sit.

Here in Beijing, I have had my incidents as well, but here they seem to respond better. On the few times that there is a change, the monitor has been  kind enough to let me know.

I sometimes think that the "mantra" for the Foreign Affairs office here is "Tell the foreign teacher nothing!" (sic).

The big problem I do encounter on occasion is that I will get a notice taped to my door, and it will be all in Chinese. Last year, I took it down to ask on "Monday" my colleagues what it meant. Next day on Saturday, I get a call from my boss demanding why wasn't I in class. I told him it was Saturday and that I dont work on Saturdays. Long story short, it was a "special  session" class and that was what the note said. I told them it was in Chinese and I can't read Chinese. He didn't believe me so on Monday when I showed him the note, he was kind enough to apologize and even treated me to dinner.

Sadly, all I can say is "grin and bear it". You can also talk to the administrator, though that may not do much good (but then again, you never know).

 

 

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Like GR, I tend to ignore anything that isn't given directly to me in a language I can understand (ie, I won't even ask about it!) I'll even go so far as to deliberately do things, even though someone (non-officially) has explained something to me (eg, a student tells me what a particular sign means).

 

If I had too many students leaving class like that, without any form of notice, I'd tell the student they can't go - until such time as said principal or other official person actually informs me.

 

Remember, they're using me for my 'face' (the Anglo-Saxon one), so I'm not going to be worried about losing any Laughing out loud

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What GuilinRaf describes is what happened to me as well. I'd go to class and there would be no one there. After the first time, I realized that it was because they had some other class and no one told me, but it was still frustrating, as I could have slept in. I later found out that the students knew for a while before the day they would not have my class, but they wouldn't tell me because they thought someone else had told me. Each time I called the teacher that I knew to ask what was going on. I felt bad for her, but what else could I do.

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I've turned up to class, and the whole class was missing. It is like they tell everybody "don't tell the foreigner."

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