What to Do When Your Co-Teacher Doesn’t Show Up For Class

Today Julianne went to her assigned classroom to teach her assigned class at the assigned scheduled time like the qualified and professional teacher she is . . . 

Arriving in class the bell sounds that class has begun and her co-teacher arrives a minute later. 

Miss Kim then proceeds to say, “Julianne, there’s a meeting downstairs I must go to now. “ 

Julianne replies, “Fine. I’ll show the students a movie.” 

Miss Kim disappears to go to her meeting that is more important than the scheduled class she has with Julianne and skips out on after the class has already begun, abandoning her duties and responsibilities to the–as public school contracts state–”assistant-teacher” . . . who does what the vast majority of native English teachers in Korea do even if there is a co-teacher present–teach the class as the primary teacher. 

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