Why I Still Owe A Few Friends Money
It has been two years now since a googlie-mooglie situation sent me to the magic kingdom to work a military job that would have by now made me financially secure provided I didn't spend most of my holidays flying around the world in search of gold medal felatrixes.
There is "Student Type A" who could take eight good weeks out of my life because I would obsess on measures, counter-measures and counter-counter measures (good cop/bad cop/indifferent cop) to deal with this inhumane behavioural type which seemed at times to be so reprehensible and loathesome that it could turn my profession as well as life in the Kingdom into complete gloom and hopelessness. Adding fuel to the fire, often other students aped the misbehaving one so that the entire class would become completely ungovernable. Your reputation for being unable to deal with the Type A brat spreads quickly. Then again, I can recall "Student Type B": a gentleman and a gentle man, soft-spoken, eager to learn, respectful of others, honest, what you might call "good people"--AND a credit to his faith and creed.
Learn to cope with Type A without having your tyres slashed or life threatened, without losing sleep or without becoming a full blown sid-aholic and you might complete a contract. Now, my worst experiences fall under classroom management, and again, I am making generalisations based on my experience.
For example: Coming to class on time. I recall nearly every class, every hour of every day having a few who wandered in five to ten minutes late. If there was a warrant officer, a major or colonel in charge (OIC) who looked after his teaching staff, then the student would shoulder the blame; however, this sometimes created backlash when dealing with students who come from a culture where their manhood, their fathers' and grandfathers' manhood all require acts of vengeance and retaliation if shame is brought upon the surnames or tribal names.
Dismissing class early: Some warrant officers or sergeants apparently have one military occupational specialty which is to guarantee that a class is not dismissed until the bell rings--not one second before.
Student Apathy The incidents in which the teacher, not the student, may be faulted weren't limited to a student not showing up on time or leaving early. A teacher can make a dismissal hit list if his students do not bring pencils or books to class or if his students keep nodding off in class despite a teacher's best efforts to keep the student conscious, if his students get out of their seats and go a'wandering aimlessly, clueslessly around the classroom or if students leave the room to 'ava slash (usually to 'ava smoke), or if the students converse openly and loudly during a lesson (again despite repeated warnings). . .all classroom management issues of this nature more often than not become the teacher's responsibility.
Now consider this: when a teacher is under pressure to complete a certain number of units before a test and the time needed to teach is wasted making feable attempts to manage the classroom, you are in a lose/lose situation. Take a stab at guessing who is to blame if a class doesn't achieve satisfactory marks on a test. I hope this gives you a somewhat clearer picture of teaching military in the Gulf and especially in the Kingdom.
I no longer think about rambling and a gambling from shit hole to shit hole in search of a gold medalist felatrix. Gold medal felatrixes are trained not rented.
There is "Student Type A" who could take eight good weeks out of my life because I would obsess on measures, counter-measures and counter-counter measures (good cop/bad cop/indifferent cop) to deal with this inhumane behavioural type which seemed at times to be so reprehensible and loathesome that it could turn my profession as well as life in the Kingdom into complete gloom and hopelessness. Adding fuel to the fire, often other students aped the misbehaving one so that the entire class would become completely ungovernable. Your reputation for being unable to deal with the Type A brat spreads quickly. Then again, I can recall "Student Type B": a gentleman and a gentle man, soft-spoken, eager to learn, respectful of others, honest, what you might call "good people"--AND a credit to his faith and creed.
Learn to cope with Type A without having your tyres slashed or life threatened, without losing sleep or without becoming a full blown sid-aholic and you might complete a contract. Now, my worst experiences fall under classroom management, and again, I am making generalisations based on my experience.
For example: Coming to class on time. I recall nearly every class, every hour of every day having a few who wandered in five to ten minutes late. If there was a warrant officer, a major or colonel in charge (OIC) who looked after his teaching staff, then the student would shoulder the blame; however, this sometimes created backlash when dealing with students who come from a culture where their manhood, their fathers' and grandfathers' manhood all require acts of vengeance and retaliation if shame is brought upon the surnames or tribal names.
Dismissing class early: Some warrant officers or sergeants apparently have one military occupational specialty which is to guarantee that a class is not dismissed until the bell rings--not one second before.
Student Apathy The incidents in which the teacher, not the student, may be faulted weren't limited to a student not showing up on time or leaving early. A teacher can make a dismissal hit list if his students do not bring pencils or books to class or if his students keep nodding off in class despite a teacher's best efforts to keep the student conscious, if his students get out of their seats and go a'wandering aimlessly, clueslessly around the classroom or if students leave the room to 'ava slash (usually to 'ava smoke), or if the students converse openly and loudly during a lesson (again despite repeated warnings). . .all classroom management issues of this nature more often than not become the teacher's responsibility.
Now consider this: when a teacher is under pressure to complete a certain number of units before a test and the time needed to teach is wasted making feable attempts to manage the classroom, you are in a lose/lose situation. Take a stab at guessing who is to blame if a class doesn't achieve satisfactory marks on a test. I hope this gives you a somewhat clearer picture of teaching military in the Gulf and especially in the Kingdom.
I no longer think about rambling and a gambling from shit hole to shit hole in search of a gold medalist felatrix. Gold medal felatrixes are trained not rented.
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