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[Caro wack]

I am curious for experienced GEPIK teachers. Do they ask you
to play maid? It is NOT listed as one of the duties in the contract.

[agoodmouse]

No, students clean the classrooms.

[espoir]

[oldfatfarang]

Yes the first year 'juniors' 'clean' the classrooms - that is if you think just moving the dirt around the class is cleaning. This is really just another way of entrenching the 'junior' / 'senior' relationships fundamental in K society.

I find that if you don't supervise them - after a few weeks they just play around anyway.

[Faunaki]

Depends. For the first year and a half I was responsible for cleaning my room. It sucked big time. This year they finally gave me cleaning students who do all the work. If you don't have cleaning students you basically have to coerce students to do it for you. Last year punishment for bad students was garbage/cleaning duty and I also had E money so I'd pay students to clean the room.

Basically if the other rooms that are not homerooms are getting student cleaners then you should too (like the art room, music room, etc.) If not you are stuck up cleaning creek.

[Xuanzang]

This classroom is "swept" and "mopped" but never cleaned with bleach or disinfectant. The kids just use stinky water and mops.

[ekul]

I keep the worst behaving table behind after each lesson and get to to weep the floor and clean the tables. It generally keeps the room in good shape. Then in the afternoons a bunch of kids clean it again. Like above though, all they really do is spread the dust.