International Schools Under Scrutiny
During a recent administrative inspection of the Seoul Office of Education, Lee Su-jeong, a Seoul Metropolitan Council member representing the Democratic Labor Party, said that some U.S.-owned and other international schools had become “royal academies” for the children of wealthy Koreans.
Teachers at international schools are also required to be involved in various extracurricular activities and participate in a myriad of other activities as well ― such as marking tests and meeting students ― in addition to their basic duty of teaching.
Your basic English academy or government-sponsored public school teacher, among other things, has access to a lot of ESL (English as a Second Language) material online or from other sources, has the freedom to be creative, and is required to maintain a semblance of order in the classroom ― but is not responsible for a student’s grade.
