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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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 Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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| NohopeSeriously wrote: |
| shostahoosier wrote: |
No, I work at a real rural elementary school. I teach K-12 and love it. The two closest elementary schools have 23 and 110 students respectively (I think they've both lost their NETs)...so yes..I dont live anywhere near a city. Like I said thought, ESID, as a guy further down the road hated his rural school.
I dont entirely understand your last sentence, but if you're saying what I think you're saying I'm inclined to agree. GEPIK is horribly managed and probably will find that they have screwed themselves with the whole new intake thing. Unfortunately, EPIK is horribly managed too (from what I've heard) so I guess that doesnt leave many options if you're in Korea...which is why the next contract will be my last. |
It seems that you're a very lucky case. A rare case.
And you did understand my thoughts perfectly. GEPIK is totally mismanaged. |
Guess I'm another rare case then. Seriously though...not everybody wants to be in Seoul or near Seoul...or for that matter near a major city.
And although other people may have had different experiences... I've always found that rural schools tend to be more accomodating in terms of apartment appliances and school schedules. And less by-the-book in terms of vacation and days off. Maybe I was just lucky three times in a row though... |
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sojusucks
Joined: 31 May 2008
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 2:27 am Post subject: |
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| shostahoosier wrote: |
| NohopeSeriously wrote: |
It seems that you're a very lucky case. A rare case.
And you did understand my thoughts perfectly. GEPIK is totally mismanaged. |
Oh yes, I agree that I lucked out with my location.
RE: GEPIK
What I dont understand is - why are things managed so poorly?!
I dont need someone from GEPIK to hold my hand, but it would be nice if someone could answer my occasional questions.
Why is the "Dr. GEPIK" book always one year behind when they pass it out at "training"?
What are the coordinator's duties? As far as I'm concerned mine is completely useless. I've been here for about 2 years and I've gotten maybe 4 emails from her, 3 of them being completely useless and the other being incorrect information (so I guess that makes them all useless).
Ive heard of other coordinators being awesome, but I dont think that mine even does the minimum.
I'm sure it would get annoying to try to keep hundreds of foreign teachers happy, but thats not what I'm asking for....I just want someone to answer my questions HONESTLY and to keep me updated about changes.
These arent hard things to do.
Sadly if it werent for Dave's or really helpful Korean friends, I would be in the dark about a lot of things (visa documents, taxes, contract changes etc.). |
For foreign teachers, GEPIK tells you what they want you to know, not what you need to know. They hate these kinds of message boards. |
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