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[bbud656]

I had an interesting conversation the other day. I know people on both ends of the spectrum when it comes to PS time off. To my surprise, both sides felt the other was in the minority. When I worked for a PS, I never got out early and barely got all my vacation days. I figured my friends who got let out at noon and had 30 day vacations were just a lucky few. The topic came up and I got the sense that they thought most people had the same experience as them and they considered people in my old circumstance an unlucky few.

[CentralCali]

You know what happened when a thread like this was started over the summer break? Yep. A policy letter from the Office of Education mandating that all--not some, not a few, but all--GETs be in the school from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., regardless of the hours the Korean English teachers work, regardless of a lack of classes. The policy even included a twice daily inspection to ensure said GET was actually present.

In advance, I'd like to thank you for the soon to appear winter memorandum.

[PatrickGHBusan]

[bbud656]

I take it thats +1 for the time off side. If NETS tattle on each other thats their business. I dont think the Koreans care if some foreign teacher has a better deal than another foreign teacher. I dont think it will matter considering you said they imposed new regulations, yet not much changed as far as I can tell.

[alwaysgood]

Desk warming is normal for me, and most other PS teachers I know.

[cj1976]

In the 5 years I've worked in PS I have never deskwarmed, but if I was told I had to I wouldn't waste my energy trying to get out of it.
Besides, I'd probably get more studying done at school then at home.

[swinewho]

My Principal dosen't care what the office tell him - he does what he wants!

I kind of hope that an official letter does come this winter, becasue then he'll let me go even earlier just to annoy them!

Principal = god (a real one that is)

[TheUrbanMyth]

[cj1976]

Actually, thinking about it my first school informed me that I should come in after the summer camp was finished, but they seemed baffled as to why. I came in for 3 hours, realised I was basically the only person in the building and went home. They never even noticed.

[koreatimes]

[bbud656]

maybe I was wrong about just a few lucky people

[Weigookin74]

Rural versus urban area? I would suspect most of SMOE would be quite strict. But some rural areas can occasionally be anal too. But most of the time, I would think rural areas would be more laid back and cities are more strict. Possible exceptions. If you have to, keep your mouth shut and hope that with administration changes you'll get to go too in the future. Complain and you'll all have to stay, even in the future.

[Grantasmagoria]

The first year and a half of vacations was pure bliss, one to two week camps and the rest was whatever I wanted to do.

Then, the crackdowns started and it was 3 week camps, my vacation days getting shifted around right before the vacation time started, and the rest of the time desk warming in a frigid / blistering hot school. I even offered to not get paid instead of desk warming. The school turned me down, hahaha. Desk warming is a fucking joke.