School Punishment in Korea is Strange(eeee)

Interesting school tidbits for those of you who are interested.

My school has ten minute passing periods and during every single one today this kid has had to come into the teacher's office & stand with his face against the wall. I have no idea what he did, I never have any idea what the punishments are for, I've just learned to accept that kids are going to be in the teacher's office staring at the wall or standing with their arms above their heads on a regular basis.

What I do find strange is that I had my 2nd graders (8th grade kids) soon to be 3rd graders make rules for my classroom for next semester as they will be the oldest grade. The punishments they were coming up for themselves for things were strange. Here are my three favorites so far:


"We shouldn't sleep in class. If you don't do this, you have to run a playground five times." - AKA, they have to run around the soccer field 5 times.


"We should dance at the virtual studio when we hit our friends in class." - AKA, they have to do a dance in front of the whole class.


"We shouldn't talk in class otherwise we sould have a conversation with Kate. If we couldn't answer the question, we should be do 'invisible chair'." - I still haven't completely figured this one out, I think it means if they talk in class & can't tell me why they are talking they have to do a wall sit (I only got wall sit because they demonstrated it for me).

Two weeks ago I did a Halloween theme thing with my high schoolers & I made them draw me a picture/describe the creepiest, most disgusting thing they could think of. This AWESOME girl drew a picture of a pretty girl with a meat cleaver in her head and blood SPURTING out of her eyeball, she made it even better by writing a story of how she came to be in that state. I hung it up on my fridge.

These are the times that I love my students.

Enjoy your Thanksgiving, America!