One- I have never gotten cat calls and felt so sexually harassed in my life as I have here multiple times. It is even worse when like today it is a 7th grader blatantly checking out my ass and then making some comment or noise to let me know I am hot. I once told another 7th grader (who seemed to understand my humiliation and therefore kept doing it) that if he didn't stop than I would call the police. He subsequently dropped out of school. He came back this year but has yet to bother me at all.
Two- The spelling here is horrific. They have an extremely hard time distinguishing between S and C as well as B and V. It's even more painful when, like today, I was teaching my basic computer class to 4 teachers. I asked them to write a paragraph for me. When I looked in, most had terrible terrible spelling. I mean like really bad spelling. Part of that is because teachers here are not required to have a college degree and the other part is that job security here is incredible. You can be a terrible teacher and hang around until retirement.
Late edit:
I should mention that dropping out in 7th grade is really common. In fact, in the past 2 weeks I have seen one pregnant walking around with her bf and another delivered her baby yesterday. There is no mandatory age they have to stay in school. What puzzles me is why they would elect to not hang out with their friends all day and just sit around the house. If anything, school is more fun than being a home....but maybe that's just me....
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