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[Hyeon Een]

I've been offered a job in a Gyeonggido public school, however the conditions seem somewhat.. worse than other public school jobs I have seen advertised. I have been told it is 22 hours a week. This is not 22 classes, it is 22 hours so 33 40 minute classes. I was under the impression that most people in public schools did 20-25 classes a week.

I was also told that these classes would be before 2:30pm, and after this I would have to stay at the school until 5:30. I was then told that between 2:30 and 5:30 I can (in fact, she used the word will) do extra classes at 20,000 an hour (and I bet that is per hour and not class as well..).

Is this a GEPIK job? I'm thinking it isn't very appealing. I can get a Hagwan job with smaller classes which only needs me to be there 5 or 6 hours a day instead of 8. Though I'd miss out on all those random days off you public school types get for exams and school birthdays etc.

thanks,

-HE

[zappadelta]

Where is this job located?

[Paddycakes]

You can bet that on test days, etc., that you will be required to be on-site for the full day even though you have nothing to do.

Public school jobs are becoming very much hogwanized; the only real attraction left is that you don't need to worry about being paid on time. That's about it.

I remember those days in the public school... trapped in an un-airconditioned tiny little office approaching 35 degrees in 95 percent humidity, listening to the Korean teachers say things like, and I quote:

"Chinese workers are very lazy", and my personal favorite, "Koreans are very intelligent because we can speak Korean".

And this is from teachers, who you would think would be a little more intelligent, but I guess not.

Just remember, if you work in a public school you're going to have to spend 8 hours a day rubbing shoulders with Koreans...

If you're lucky you might get to work with a Korean who has lived overseas...

Koreans who have lived overseas are generally infinitely more intelligent and functional and less absurd than the rest of them...

They're night and day actually....

[Hyeon Een]

[zappadelta]

Well, there's something fishy here if you are being asked to teach 33 classes a week. At my public school, I teach 24 40 mintue classes a week. Anything over that is overtime. So yea, 1 hour = 40 minutes in my contract. As for vacation, it says I get 4 weeks/year in my contract. But, just this summer alone, I have gotten 4 weeks. I don't know, I wouldn't take the job if they were making you work 33 classes. Something's wrong here.

[Hyeon Een]

[Derrek]

I don't know who it's with, but I wouldn't sign it.

[TJ]