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Olivencia
Joined: 08 Mar 2009
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 Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 2:01 pm Post subject: The February public school schedule...why isn't it known? |
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What gives? There is only like a week left in January and I'm still in the dark as to what my February schedule is. I'd like to plan something for my week or so off but this last minute notification with things doesn't afford much preparation time. In fact, because my previous Christmas break schedule was given to me so late I actually had to cancel my entire plans.
This bites! |
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Seoulio
Joined: 02 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Perhaps the admins do their job as effectively as you do. Just enough to get by. |
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Olivencia
Joined: 08 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 2:30 pm Post subject: |
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Oh ok so no one should call me lazy and a hypocrite then since they and I are all in the same boat.
Get a clue. |
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Seoulio
Joined: 02 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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However to actualy answer your question, what is it you want known? You need to clarify.
Don't all public schools run classes for the first two weeks and then stop for the last 2 weeks of Febuary? If you have signed a new contract for a second year you get the second 2 weeks off, if you haven't, or if you signed your contract in August, then you have to deskwarm for those 2 weeks.
What schedule are you asking for? |
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Olivencia
Joined: 08 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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OK.
I have never worked for a public school before. This other guy I know who also works for a public school (his first year here) in the same town had a very different Christmas break than me.
I just want to know when my vacation would be. When is my last day working there and what day am I expected to return. |
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Seoulio
Joined: 02 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Olivencia wrote: |
Oh ok so no one should call me lazy and a hypocrite then since they and I are all in the same boat.
Get a clue. |
I don't even know exactly what that means, seems a bit of a random comment.
If you had pressed your school for your Christmas schedule you could have made your plans, but this board is full of people who had to cancel their vacations because they made the plans without getting their vcation schedules first. So perhaps in this regard you were a bit lazy, I don't know how hard you were pushing them.
As for February vacation schedules, I know mine, so again this is why I think you need to clarify your query. |
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Seoulio
Joined: 02 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 2:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Olivencia wrote: |
OK.
I have never worked for a public school before. This other guy I know who also works for a public school (his first year here) in the same town had a very different Christmas break than me.
I just want to know when my vacation would be. When is my last day working there and what day am I expected to return. |
When did you start?
If you started last February and you are staying for another year you are contractually required to have the last 2 weeks of February off ( unless the principal informs you he needs to move it because he needs to use you for other things)
If you started in August, you have NO vacation unless you have previously asked to use some of your 21 vacation days for the break.
Other than that you report to your school everyday except Feb 15th which is a national holiday. |
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Olivencia
Joined: 08 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 2:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Press for it? How many times do I have to keep asking and when everytime it's an "I don't know" in return. In fact, I was given a Christmas vacation schedule 2 and a half weeks before the break and was told that this is the "finalized" vacation schedule. Well guess what happened two days later...yup not so finalized after all. |
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Seoulio
Joined: 02 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Olivencia wrote: |
| Press for it? How many times do I have to keep asking and when everytime it's an "I don't know" in return. In fact, I was given a schedule 2 and a half weeks before and was told that this is the "finalized" vacation schedule. Well guess what happened two days later...yup not so finalized after all. |
You demand it, You tell them that you are planning vacation and you need to pay for the ticket. They will be as lazy with the finalising of the schedule as you are about pressing them for the answer ( sad but true)
I know many people who were in the exact same boat as you, and then they told the school that they were planning their trip the next day so they needed the schedule and that they would not teach the camp if the dates conflicted. The school had the dates the next day.
I know others who said, "you've had time to make a decision, I am planning my trip for these dates, do not run the camp on these dates as I will not be here"
As for a finalised scedule, once you have that you make a copy and make your vacation. If they change it you just say, "No, sorry"
Lastly, when its final you get the principal to sign off on your vacation ( like physically sign off on your dates) then you are good to go. |
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Hightop
Joined: 11 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 2:50 pm Post subject: |
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| I know at my school there is a yearly calendar that is given to all the teachers at the start of the year. On this calendar there are all the important dates. Of course it is all in Korean but it does not take much to figure it out. Do other schools not have this? |
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Olivencia
Joined: 08 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 2:50 pm Post subject: |
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I don't make demands over something this obvious. I just follow along and get back in other ways. So many things are done and agreed upon by word of mouth and if I do what you suggest I will be hated even more than I already am.
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Hightop wish I had what you have. |
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Seoulio
Joined: 02 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Olivencia wrote: |
I don't make demands over something this obvious. I just follow along and get back in other ways. So many things are done and agreed upon by word of mouth and if I do what you suggest I will be hated even more than I already am.
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Hightop wish I had what you have. |
So if its this obvious you'd know what the vacation schedule is. If you don't ask them for it then you obviously don't want to know it that badly. You are supposed to get your vacation agreed up on by the principal, that is in your contract, and if you are resigning again you are REQUIRED to have the last 2 weeks off. And, as stated, if you are not renewing your contract you need to REQUEST additional days off that will come out of your 21 day vacation allotment.
So you are waiting for them to update you on nothing. They are not going to update you on the 2 weeks if you are supposed to get them, and they have nothing to update you on if you have not requested days off.
So now its our turn to say "get a clue"
As for the calendar that hightop is mentioning, pretty sure that all schools are required to submit one to SMOE.
Stab in the dark here, I am guessing you've never asked if one exists from your partner teacher? |
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Olivencia
Joined: 08 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 3:42 pm Post subject: |
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| You and your pie and the sky approach towards things is amusing. |
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nomad-ish
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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| i'm also curious as to the typical february schedule for SMOE schools. none of my co-teachers are around these days and they've only given me some vague outlines of when graduation is for the third graders. |
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Seoulio
Joined: 02 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Olivencia wrote: |
| You and your pie and the sky approach towards things is amusing. |
Pie in the sky? Yeah having a schedule and wanting to know it, that's just a pipe dream.
Same with actually expecting a teacher to actually teach to the best of their ability.
I guess I am a really wierd guy who actually knows what I am entitled to under my contract, and when it isnt clear I find out.
I'm a rebel. |
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