Oh yeah, I absolutely agree with that. I just think that the problems with teaching ESL are even more pervasive because a lot of the people who take temporary positions lack not only the knowledge of pedagogy and classroom practice, but also the knowledge of how the language actually works.

I am constantly astonished at the degree to which teaching is treated as something anyone can do as long as they have a vague knowledge of the subject. I was a secondary school teacher for a while, so I do have training, but I have taught at many other levels since, and at most, there would be a one-day seminar…

If I were such a huge asshole that my family had to tell people that I had brain damage to explain my behavior, I’d MAYBE think about dialing it back just a bit.

1997, my mom a private pilot, my brother and I flew to a family reunion, from Seattle to Helena MT. We get there to find the entire family reunion had be relocated to a remote cabin. With no way to get there we hung out at my uncles house, and by out I mean outside in the yard until the family reunion returned the…

Plus, lady tears should be saved for science labs alone, in between falling in love with your labmates. DUH.

Because nothing bad ever happened under “never meant to hurt anyone” Amirite?

I’m an immigration attorney. Dollars to donuts, this woman would NOT have qualified for a U-visa if she had the misfortune to live in my state. Because you have to get a law enforcement official to “certify” your U-visa and most law enforcement officials around here routinely refuse to do so. Even if you qualify under…

Translation: “Charlton is an abusive sack of rotting dicks, but as he’s paying me and I can’t technically lie, let’s just start arguing about the definition of the word abuse.”

My friends who have been victims of DV must be lying then. Let me go and tell them that what happened to them is absolutely not true. That cop did not just tell your husband to take a break...this is all in your head.

Friendly to women? I don't know in what world. I have seen many incidents of domestic violence where cops just tell the guy that he needs to relax after he beat up his wife. That is not friendly to women in my dictionary.

Apparently, you live in a world where moral obligations fall entirely on the laborer.

Who cares what her immigration status was? When someone willingly hires you to do work, and you do said work, you deserve to be compensated for it. Period. End of story.

must have been used to the rich types who “get a job at the coffee house for 5 hours a week” while living in a penthouse and traveling internationally every few weeks.

Nice to see you’ve joined us, Magda! News flash, this writer doesn’t owe you shit or shinola about the personal details about her time there, yet she wrote about them anyway — she was in the process of getting her citizenship. Also, I’ve never heard of someone “getting what they deserved” for being naive by working…

“Your labor doesn’t warrant protection”

If you had read closely you would see that she was in the process of becoming a citizen. That literally makes her an immigrant.

She should’ve just called it an internship

Yeah, fuck paying people who work for you if no one is watching!

Right??? Americans are super greedy.

Wait, she thought by more American you’d be willing to work for free? Has she met us?