Posted on 07/19/2015 1:16:54 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
During U.S. President Barack Obama’s speech on Wednesday regarding a new government initiative to bring high speed internet access to low-income groups, the topic of South Korea’s education system came up.
“In South Korea they pay their teachers the way they pay their doctors,” he said in front of an audience at Durant High School in Durant, Okla. “They consider education to be at the highest wrung of the professions.”
The reason it came up at all had to do with South Korea’s widespread high speed internet access especially in the city’s capital of Seoul.
Obama voiced a similar statement in April when he said that teachers are ”paid at the level that doctors and engineers are paid.”
In fact, he has frequently lauded South Korea’s education system since taking office in 2009.
But the claim drew criticism because there isn’t hard evidence available that supports the idea that pay is equal among the mentioned professions. In fact, the Korean Federation of Teachers Association (KFTA) pointed out that significant salary disparities exist particularly between doctors and teachers. The KFTA later mentioned that the assertion was most likely a “misunderstanding.”
It’s been a part of every culture and will remain so as long as human sexuality exists. There will always be wealthy unnatractive men that desire sex enough to give things to beautiful females.
The only thing that changed throughout history is how public it is.
Believe me, there are PLENTY of “white run” brothels and call girl agencies in this city. They are high priced and for “elites” though (like spitzer). It is much less exposure and risk to serve a few high end clients than run a public brothel.
The immigrants come in to service the lower class and are more visible in the neighborhood. But they are no different from what already goes on behind slightly more closed doors
When the market whines about the price, it gets an answer
Winner, winner! Chicken diner!
The Marxist ideal is that the government sets salaries and keeps all salaries about the same, except for the party elite, which gets special privileges and everything that it wants.
We throw Billions of Dollars down that Federal hole with Terrible Results to show for it.
Not that Ubama cares, it just enriches his donors and keeps people dependent.
But The Koreans can't play that Stupid game, not with their Northern Communists Cousins right there, who are Dead Serious about what they are doing.
We are not.
A lot of Korean and Japanese kids after school go to a separate private school so called cram school for extra study and it is true that if your ratings are high as a teacher at such a cram school then you are paid very very very highly.
Obamas claim is false because it makes it sound as if they’re talking about ordinary public school teachers.
It is true that ordinary public school teachers there are more revered than in the USA, but they are paid rather much the same.
Let me also add that in Japan and Korea it is not so uncommon for teachers to strike their students.
If a student is really make giving them a hard time they will often bring them to the kendo coach or the baseball coach, who will actually eat them up.
Officially it is forbidden however it is rather common.
The number of different ways that common practices in education in Asia would not work for the USA is staggering.
I think most black parents would tolerate such rigor ONE day or week and then they would switch schools, and thats even if a good grade outcome of such rigor were guaranteed.
You can’t wear makeup, you can’t wear weird clothes, the uniform is very standard, you can’t make noise, you have to bow to the teachers, you have to clean school...
there’s a million things that such kids would not do.
Most South Koreans love their pet dogs - they spoil them more than we do. It’s only a few remnants of the older generation who still eat dog meat, and they are dying off quickly.
It’s also the fact that theirs’ is not a multi-cultural society.
South Korea had to pass laws to keep kids from studying too much at those private night schools (after school, go to study at a hakwon). They can still study on their own of course.
This is never going to be a problem in America. lol
The US will never need to pass laws to keep kids from studying too much. lol
IOW, SK pays doctors as badly as it pays teachers.
The real money is in the after school and weekend tutoring that almost EVERY child is enrolled in by their parents.
Don’t his kids go to private school?
Of course they do. And if you could see the menus for the meals...
My son teaches English in South Korea and makes 30 million won a year. If I’m not mistaken a U.S. DOLLAR is worth .00087 won. This is a little over 30K US dollars a year. The South Korean students line up to learn English. He loves the zeal of the South Koreans.
IIRC it was about 500 won to the dollar when I was stationed there.
And at least in South Korea, there is only ONE culture, unlike in this country where sub-cultures drag everyone else down.
I will never look at S Korea in the same way again.
Horrible.
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