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[heydelores]

I have an interview with GEPIK this week. I'm just wondering if their contracts are set in stone or if I have any negotiating power. I do not want to work summer/winter camps or have to stay in the school during holiday periods. Has anyone successfully negotiated their way out of this with GEPIK?

[BreakfastInBed]

Gotta deal with your school. It's a standard contract we sign, if you aren't willing to do everything it says don't sign it. Talk to the teacher at the school you're going to and find out what he or she is required to do. If it's working camps and staying everyday until 4:40, classes or not, expect the same. It's all up to the principal at your particular school.

[icicle]

The things that you want to avoid are usually part and parcel of working in a Public School ... For some people at least the negative side of things in the public school ... If you don't want to be required to spend the usually required time at school ... Including when you don't have classes on ... and don't want to work summer camps ... then don't try to get a job in a public school ... I haven't heard of a public school job which gave people leave for all of the vacation periods ... There are both positives and negative to working in a public school ... What you need to do is to decide whether you can live with the negatives ... But as someone else already said it does very much come down to the principal ... and the principal can change ... You will not get a contract out of a GEPIK school which does not include on paper at least the things you have said you don't want ... In practice might be different ... But could not be guaranteed or relied on ...

Icicle

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[maingman]

was told myself about 3 or 4 days ago that Im to ask.say to my co teacher

if i want to go out to luncheee and thus off site!!!
and for my main male teacher will then check with Principal

[Gwangjuboy]