NY Times article about my job

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Originally Posted by Split

my best teachers were difficult as fuck, but gave us interesting work & were good at telling you what you NEEDED to know and what helped

yeah none of that is important in the academic climate here lol. it's all about quantity over quality, because schools are privately owned businesses, and competition is so high here that parents fall for it. so if one school advertises that they'll teach your kid 50 vocab words a week, another one will pop up saying 80. Do the kids actually know/remember these words? Not at all, but they cram it through and hope it sticks well enough to pass the TOEFL exam. the article briefly mentions it, but a huge chunk of people have private tutoring after 10pm for a few hours. these are elementary, middle, and high school kids. there's a saying that 4 hours of sleep and you'll pass the test, 5 hours of sleep and you fail.