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[Bingo]

I work with Gepik. Today I get back from my vacation. My co-worker asks me for my 'personal study' report. I tell her that I don't do any work-related studying during my holidays. She says, "But you are a teacher. Your vacation isn't totally your free time. You must do personal study on that time. We need a report of what you did. Can you give us about two pages on what you studied." I said absolutely not. "My vacation is 100% my free time. I don't give work a moment's thought. That's why it's called vacation. I don't present reports about what I do on my free time." "But you're a teacher and during vacation you should....." I almost hit the roof. During work hours I am a teacher. I am not a teacher after work hours, on weekends, or on vacations. On my vacation time I am "on vacation" from being a teacher.

Koreans just don't get it. I do not belong to the school. On my own time I am not a teacher. I am a person.

[Mr Crowley]

I did this crap at my last elementary school. I typed around a 3 paragraph BS on what I did. It is useless paperwork asked for by the GEPIK office.

[crusher_of_heads]

" I would prefer not to."

"I would prefer not to."


"I wold prefer not to"-the beaver, as much as I love The Merchant of Venice, Othello and Measure for Measure, that line from Bartleby the Scrivener is my most beloved line in all of English literature-and more than applicable for the OP in his situation.

[nobbyken]

Korean teachers are allowed long vacations if they do personal study, a course which promotes them a level or visit an English speaking country.

It's the way they do it, vacation is looked at diferently here than in the west.
Here, you are always a teacher. You are a teacher when you are not at school too.

You could always say that you did online study at daves about various effective teaching methods and the rich culture of Korea^^.

[nomad-ish]

[Roch]

[Suwoner10]

For kicks, write up a description of your cannabalism and serial killing vacation spree, and various fantasies involving co-teachers.

[The_Conservative]

Am I the only one who has never been asked to do this?

[steroidmaximus]

I don't get what the big deal is. Part of your job is administrative which means generating sheafs of useless paperwork. Just write up some crap and hand it in. Geez.

[Gwangjuboy]

[laogaiguk]

Did you have a full vacation like them too? If you did, maybe write up a small report on crap, make as many errors as possible. If you only had 7 days or two weeks, tell them to shove it up their asses.

[Gwangjuboy]

[mrsquirrel]

Just tell them you went to Cambodia and Vietnam investigating if the Christ Neil story was true.

[cj1976]

I worked for GEPIK and I had loads of extra time off in return for handing in 'reports'. Google something related to ESL teaching methodology, cut and paste, print and submit. Well worth it in return for an extra week off.
I now work for SMOE and I was supposed to hand in a form detailing vacation study plans. I just got my co-teacher to write anything she wanted and it was fine.

[Bingo]

There's a principle here. An individual is many things, most importantly a sovereign individual. He / she belongs to no one. In employment we sacrifice part of our sovereignty in exchange for remuneration. After working hours our full sovereignty resumes. The workplace no longer has any claim to our time or energy. You belong to you.

I don't mind writing 'study reports' for extra days off work that are not cited in my contract. That's reasonable. But I will not be doing any school work or writing reports during vacation time that is explicitly stated in my contract.