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[hagwonnewbie]

Public school teachers, how many days off did you have off last year?

I'm curious about:

1)vacation days

2)regular public holidays

3)special days(like elections, mid term exam days, and others)

4)half days

[Zutronius]

I haven't worked a five day work week since May if that says anything. There was lots of random time off because of students going on camps, student elections, too humid, etc.

[nomad-ish]

[KYC]

22 vacation days. I dont know how many national holidays. The rest..I've had to come in and sit even though no students or teachers were there.

[Binch Lover]

With my extra 2 weeks for renewal and a good few days here and there, I got about 40 or 50 days last year. I also had half days during summer and winter camps.

This year will be less cos I'm not renewing and I have to work full days at camp, so maybe 30 days altogether, maybe more. We'll see! My school is good and I get on well with my principal so they let me take a few days if I ask them.

[Draz]

I kept track of this in my calender. This is only Mar-Aug.

Total Mon-Fri days: 129
Days I got to stay home for whatever reason: 14 (national and local holidays, days everything was canceled, five extra days for summer vacation)
Days I went in and had no classes: 4
Days where I had only one class: 4
Half days: 10
Sick days: 6
Vacation(?): 9 days, but I was working in another school

No overlap in the categories.

[timetotravel]

in the winter i had 6 weeks of vacation and then two weeks after that, a week off for spring vacation

this summer i have 5 weeks plus a home visit which is another 2 weeks....

in there i have also had all the national holidays plus school birthday, trips and sports days...

love ps schedule

[Faunaki]

31 vacation days
5 days for special holiday
5 weeks of half days
lots of cancelled classes


Someone once told me that SMOE ps schools teachers really only teach 6 months out of a year but remember the other time will be spent sitting in the office alone, doing nothing, bored out of your skull.

[nomad-ish]

seems like i had a pretty crappy deal, for those that got extra vacation time (half days after camp, no seat-warming, etc.) are you in rural locations? if not, what cities?

[Draz]

[nomad-ish]

[driftingfocus]

I've gotten the national holidays off, and I had my week of summer vacation. I had two days off for "sports days", and while I could have been made to chair-warm on those days, my co-teacher at that school is nice and just lets me go. I would have had a day off almost once a week, because of cancellations, etc, but because I teach at 7 schools, if one is closed, they just send me to a different one.

For the time that was not my "official" vacation during this summer vacation, for one week I worked 1.5 hours in the morning at a camp and had the rest of the day off, for 2 weeks I had to work at a teacher-training for the province, and this final week I've been chair-warming, even though the school is essentially empty.

[expat2001]

I got exactly what the contract says. Nothing more. I spent the whole summer teaching english camp in the morning , and sitting in an empty office in hte afternoon.
I got the red days off -national holidays.
What really makes me mad is the fact that alot of the schools ( eng teachers ) in the area where given extra time off or extra money because they were lucky enough to teach summer camp at another school.
i was originally asked to teach one week at another school .Had I taught the week , I would have gotten 2 extra days off. But for some reason , my school cancelled it .I bet the K teachers found out and complained.
So management cancelled it.

[Draz]