I Am Working, LIKE ACTUALLY WORKING!
This weekend brings much needed rest. The first week of working at Basis in Shenzhen has been very rewarding but exhausting. This is the first time in four years that I actually feel like I am working. For the last four years of working in Philadelphia I would prepare for a year of teaching only to execute less than a third of what I had planned. This came down to the fact that the school(s) where I worked had such low standards that students were barely expected to show up. When they did show up I was asked to lower my expectations to accommodate for their absence. The culture of China stands in sharp contrast to the culture of the US. There is a reason the US is falling behind in everything except prison population per capita. We do not value education in the US. I never had a student ASK for more challenging work until I moved here. Students here compete to get into the top colleges so they can get good paying jobs....