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kiwiroadrunner
Joined: 05 Aug 2006
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 Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 4:04 am Post subject: New Zealand International School |
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As a previous employee I'd like to warn future teachers this school is the pits. There are issues over contracts, visa processes, resources, class sizes, management, health and safety, water, food... you name it, there's a issue!!! DO NOT BRING YOUR CHILDREN HERE... This is a hogwan!
Teachers are recruitered and taken to Korea on lies. Everything is a lie!
If you do decide to come - make sure you have an E2 visa before you arrive in the country!!
This school is not working towards IBO-PYP registeration, do not believe the lies that they are in the process of registering for IBO.
The current Kiwi Acting Principal who undoutly sounds genuine on the phone, it a puppet that has no control over anything in the school.
Teachers are bullied and threatened.
DO NOT GO TO THIS SCHOOL!!!! |
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nikkijsullivan
Joined: 27 Nov 2005
Location: New Zealand
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| Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Bugger, a mate has just signed up and left the country for a job there! |
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balanced_well
Joined: 17 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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To kiwiroadrunner (Are you sure you're a previous teacher because you are surely up to date with what's going on around here?) and everyone else whose had something bad to say about NZIS: I'm currently at the school and I have 2 words for you - GROW UP!! What is it that you thought you were gonna get here that you didn't??
OK, let's talk about your issues:
Contracts - who doesn't have issues with contracts in Korea?
Visa processes - so someone came here without an E-2 visa but it was sorted as soon as immigration gave the go ahead.
Resources - it's a new school, what did you expect?
Class sizes - this one throws me - the biggest class has 12 kids!!
Management - you're not supposed to be dealing with them so what's your problem?
Health and safety - of who or what??????
Water - so we have to take a cold shower now and again. Has anyone died from it?
Food - what were you expecting - to eat fish and chips every night? THIS IS KOREA!!!!
Now, for MY issues:
YOU left behind whatever luxury it is you are used to and came here willingly. No-one forced you to come here and NO-ONE forced you to bring your kids along. YOU signed the contract - live with it and if you can't do the decent thing and give your 8 weeks notice and LEAVE!!!!
What is so hard about ...
- Having your breakfast food (fruit, juices, bread, eggs, bacon, cereal, milk, tea/coffee, milo, etc, etc, etc, etc) delivered to your kitchen? All you have to do is cook it and eat it!!
- Living in a room (no sharing) with your own bathroom, airconditioner, fan, TV, built in wardrobe, etc, etc, etc, etc?
- Having free bus rides to town daily?
- Having free (and fast) internet 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?
- Having free satellite TV 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (most channels in your room)?
- Having digital equipment at your disposal 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?
- Having a gym and other sports equipment/courts at your disposal 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?
- Having free Korean lessons delivered to you in the building twice a week?
- Having your salary paid into your bank account EVERY MONTH without any funny business?
AND ALL OF THIS AT THE SCHOOL'S EXPENSE!!
AGAIN, 2 WORDS - GROW UP!!!! |
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Cheonmunka
Joined: 04 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 2:50 am Post subject: |
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| No-one forced you to come here and NO-ONE forced you to bring your kids along. |
Your reply sounded reasonable to me except this one puts me off.
There's financial assistance available to taxpayers with children. Like education subsidies for families with low incomes (around the 2.4 miilion range. Did anyone at your school help you understand stuff like that?
Did anyone at the school reduce your tax or find you benefits?
I know what you mean by puppets. I have had to deal with a lot of foreigners put into supervisor positions because they toe the employer's line (of bull). I still grieve when confronted by people in higher positions who know very little about what is actually available and what is consistant with national laws and set customs, all of which directors will try to deprive any foreign worker of. Especially left in the clouds are those foreign supervisors.
I hear yah. |
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Cheonmunka
Joined: 04 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:12 am Post subject: |
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| No-one forced you to come here and NO-ONE forced you to bring your kids along. |
Your reply sounded reasonable to me except this one puts me off.
Considering for a moment that educational professionals in elementary schools (private ones included) are there for the assistance of children.
There's financial assistance available to taxpayers with children. Like education subsidies for families with low incomes (around the 2.4 miilion range.) But, does anyone at your school have knowledge to help you contend stuff like that? Does anyone at the school talk to you about ways to reduce your tax and find you benefits?
Does anyone talk to you about ways you can improve yours and your children's methods of getting involved in the community while in Korea?
There are story clubs in the afternoons in many of the local govt. offices, for instance.
That's the kind of thing that education professionals should know about.
As a parent of two children myself, the "Why did you bring your kids along" attitude from a professional is plain scary.
Judging by that, I can only say that I understand you, Op.
When others are greasing their (actually quite transient) careers here you'll get a Masters in Life.
As an ancilliary point, when Min-Ju Dang won the elections many prospective international schools lost out their bids. At the time, a few years ago, only Han-nara Dang promised a regime of support for them.
No matter how much the foreign office likes to think it has a NZ named brand school, paid for all by private parties, it'll be an uphill battle for it to get free of its delimitations within the enactions of laws under the present government. |
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friendlyrose
Joined: 19 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 5:30 am Post subject: |
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| Just heard from someone working there that the school has changed management and will be running as a Kids College from next year! |
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kiwiroadrunner
Joined: 05 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 8:09 am Post subject: |
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As an ex-employee of New Zealand International School I am not surprised - was waiting for the day the place finally shut down and became a hogwan - not that it isn't one now!
Just wondering about all the people who were in management positions in the school and made so many promises to teachers and their families and bringing them from NZ and everywhere else. |
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mediano tzu
Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Location: The 'rea
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| Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Has anyone worked here since they became a Kid's College? If so, have you had any issues or was it a good gig? I've been offered a job there, and the other threads that mention this school are somewhat divided on opinion and out-of-date. Can anyone give me some info about NZIS Kid's College? |
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KoreanKiwi
Joined: 03 Jan 2007
Location: World
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| Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:07 am Post subject: New Zealand International School- NZIS - Kids College Jeonju |
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Please look carefully at the three names above. They are all businesses located at the same site and run by the same people. There has been much written about this set up before. The best advice anyone can give at this time, for any of the 'businesses' operating under the names listed above, is STEER WELL CLEAR. What started as a promising venture called the New Zealand International School has failed to deliver the goods. It IS NOT, NEVER HAS BEEN and NEVER WILL BE an International School in anything other than name. If anything, these 'businesses' appear to be entering a Terminal Dive. If you get onboard now you are bound to be badly burned when the wings finally come off.
The Korean management have lied to, manipulated and downright abused both Korean staff and foreign staff employed at this site. At least 3 foreign teachers have done 'midnight runs' in the past three months. Think about it - not ONE but THREE professional teachers have been driven to run like criminals in the night. That is surely a warning to anyone thinking about working at this site. |
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mediano tzu
Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Location: The 'rea
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| Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 6:52 pm Post subject: Re: New Zealand International School- NZIS - Kids College Je |
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| KoreanKiwi wrote: |
Please look carefully at the three names above. They are all businesses located at the same site and run by the same people. There has been much written about this set up before. The best advice anyone can give at this time, for any of the 'businesses' operating under the names listed above, is STEER WELL CLEAR. What started as a promising venture called the New Zealand International School has failed to deliver the goods. It IS NOT, NEVER HAS BEEN and NEVER WILL BE an International School in anything other than name. If anything, these 'businesses' appear to be entering a Terminal Dive. If you get onboard now you are bound to be badly burned when the wings finally come off.
The Korean management have lied to, manipulated and downright abused both Korean staff and foreign staff employed at this site. At least 3 foreign teachers have done 'midnight runs' in the past three months. Think about it - not ONE but THREE professional teachers have been driven to run like criminals in the night. That is surely a warning to anyone thinking about working at this site. |
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