I didn't have a lot of time this weekend to write what I wanted to on here. Fortunately, My friend and fellow teacher Jason Kamminga sent me a great email this week. To set this up for you, in Korean schools the students are ranked from 1 to last. As a student you always know what number you are. They will joke about it and rub it in at times. It's so competitive. These kids have so much pressure on them. They get better test schools in different subjects. Some of them have just downright awful average grades. But I had no idea that teachers actually sort students from class to class based on these numbers......
February 3rd, 2010
So my teachers are choosing students for next years classes, which starts in a couple weeks... I shit you not ,they got the BIG BOARD up on the black board like a draft. I was so excited. They told me they rank the students then take turns picking like the best kids, and then they distribute the "naughty boys and tom girls". I blurted out "do you do a snake draft!!" They had no idea. I haven't been this excited since my 4 free beers an a hot dog at the Chicago Fire game!! FANTASY KOREAN STUDENT LEAGUE.
So I was like shit! you guys should put in 100,000 won each, and which ever class gets the highest STANDARDIZED test score wins all the money!!! How cool would that be!! You could like swap kids, pick kids off waivers, feed other kids misinformation to bring down test scores of other teams! Or you could have weekly standardized test for weekly money winners, and then split the pot on a %70, %20, %10 for the final test. How motivated would you be as a teacher with this format. You would be keeping the kids 'til all hours of the night!
I also think they should draft like my league, which is get wasted on whiskey, and then pick kids. You would start gambling on sleeper picks that way!!! Can you imagine yelling at Sun-Jae Park, 'I fucking drafted you in the 7th round, and you are not producing!! You're going on waivers next week to the vocational school!!' Conversely, you picked Park Young Woo in the 25th round, but she's banging out high test scores in your English flex position, you might be able to swap her mid-season for someone with better Math or Science skill if you need them.
I think I just revolutionized Korean School right here and now... Oh yea, and as you can tell I'm not getting anything done today, because its male teacher dinner "get wasted" night, paid for by your local school system.
Jason Kamminga
Who wants in on the (BFSL) Buil Fantasy School League? I do!
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