Reason 11 Why Teaching Adults is Better Than Teaching Children

Jack Student: He's weird. (nods towards Sawyer Student)

Sawyer Student: (shrug)

Me: Uh... (turns back to the pair which is actually doing work)

Jack Student: (eyes boring into the side of my head) He asked me a weird question.

Me: (blink)

Sawyer Student: (shrug)

Jack Student: (stern face)

Me: (loud sigh) What did he ask you?

Jack Student: I don't know. (glares at Sawyer Student)

Me: Seriously?

Sawyer Student: Sorry. (giggle)

Me: (turns back to the other pair in the hopes that Jack stops acting like a whiny bitch)


This happened today. And this? Is about as bad as it gets. Were I still working at Barbie Hagwon and had been dealing with real children here, as opposed to adults posing as infants, I'd have needed to do some combination of the following:


1) If the other students are still following the lesson, ignore Jack and Sawyer Students in the hopes that they'll stop acting like infants soon.

2) Insist that Sawyer Student share his comment with the rest of the class.

3) Insist that Jack Student stop being a tattle tale. Nobody likes a tattle tale.

4) Force Sawyer Student to apologize.

5) Force Jack Student to accept said apology.

6) Force Jack Student to apologize for being a tattle tale. Nobody likes a tattle tale.

7) Separate Jack and Sawyer Students.

8) Put the least cooperative student in the hallway.

9) Threaten to call their mother.

10) When all else fails, get a Korean to yell at them.


At any point there is a 43% chance that the less cooperative child will wag their ass at you, and a 83% chance that he will sass you in Korean. This will probably be Jack Student, because it's a proven fact that Sawyer is the more awesome of the two.

So, while adults clearly have the capacity to act infantile, I got to roll my eyes and treat my student's behaviour with the disdain that it deserved. This is an improvement on wasting "Why must you act 8?" thoughts on 7 year olds.