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| Which type of school do you prefer ALTing at? |
| High School |
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23% |
[ 4 ] |
| Junior High School |
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17% |
[ 3 ] |
| Elementary School |
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17% |
[ 3 ] |
| Mixed |
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35% |
[ 6 ] |
| Kindergarten |
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5% |
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seklarwia
Joined: 20 Jan 2009
Posts: 1546
Location: Monkey onsen, Nagano
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 Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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| yamanote senbei wrote: |
| Only when teachers start understanding and asserting their rights will employers start behaving responsibly. |
Or they replace them with someone who doesn't rock the boat. 
And the other great thing is that your rocking the boat could effect more than just you... and not in a good way either. I have experienced the rippling effect of the actions of just one first hand only a few months ago.
You seem to forget that the blame for the current SH avoidance doesn't lay solely with the employer:
- BOEs (but not necessarily the schools) are often well aware of the conditions that ALTs are employed under and still prefer to use dispatch companies rather than hire directly.
- BOEs often ignore the legal requirement that they should offer a FT position to any temp employee that works for them for at least 3 continuous years.
- BOEs are constantly trying to cut costs by allowing bidding wars which are directly responsible for dispatch companies cutting salaries to all time lows and skipping out on legal responsibilties as they try to make their profit margins.
- The Ministry of Labor is well aware of how dispatch workers are exploited by their employers and BOEs, but instead of doing something about that they decide to take legal action against Heart for not strictly enforcing Gyomu Itaku conditions in their schools which does nothing for the ALT apart from make their lives more difficult and lower the standard of education even further. And this legal action has had a rippling effect across many dispatch companies who are now trying harder to enforce the conditions of GI to avoid facing the same fate as Heart. |
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