Woah! Did I just get medieval ?

My 6-2 class they are so bad. They made a female teacher leave the
school because she had a nervous break down. Luckily I am male so I
don't have it as bad but It still sucks to teach that class. Any way
Korean education is lecture, lecture and lecture some more and the
students just sit their – something I am trying to get away from. To
stop any bad behavior in this environment, which I know would be
unfamiliar to them I set up some very specific and easy to follow
rules:

Rule #1: Speak English Only. Pretty easy to understand why this one is
needed. If they speak Korean then they will never learn English.
Rule #2: Full sentences. In 5th and 6th grade they should know how to
do this by now. You can't go around for the rest of your life and only
saying one word answers. Also I know if I can teach them how to say,
for example: "I like apples" then they pretty much can say they like
what ever vocabulary they know.
Rule #3: Raise your hand. You have no idea how much this one was
needed. This rule is self-explanatory.
Rule #4: Don't talk when teacher is talking. Also pretty self-explanatory.
Rule #5: If you need help, ask. I want the kids to know it is OK if
they don't know and they can always ask for help. Aww I have a warm
cuddly feeling.

On Wednesday, my 6-2 class was being their horrible selves and I told
them to behave several times. All requests were ignored. I told them
they obviously did not know the rules so they were to write each rule
20 times and hand it in today (the day before Korean Thanksgiving
vacation). The ENTIRE class blew off the request.

They were quite upset when I told them that now they need to write
each rule 40 times and hand it in the day we come back from Korean
Thanksgiving. "But teacher, it is vacation", "Give us a break
teacher", "Can you minus the number" were just a few of the protests I
heard. I told them there weren't going to be negotiations. They have had,
many, many. Many chances in the past and their bad behavior has
finally caught up to them. "But teacher !!!" they cried. "Hey" I said
loudly "you had a chance to only write 20 and everyone failed at that,
so now every one has to write 40" also, I continued "I am grading this
assignment as a class, you are all a team and if part of the team
fails, you all fail." They looked a bit confused so I explained that
everyone in the class has to do the assignment or they will be forced
to write the rules 60 times, them 80 times and so on and so forth
until every one hands in the correct number. I did this because it is
obvious to me that the teachers can't control them so maybe their
peers can. We will see how it goes. Woah! Did I just kick some ass, I
think I did.