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bestyoucanget · Joined: 06 Nov 2005

I recently spoke to a teacher of ECC Daegu.............the owner has them working 10 classes a day!!!
I would say that they must all be new teachers,as nobody in their right mind would work that many hrs..........2.30-11!!!
I notice that they always post for new teachers...............I wonder why!!!

ilovebdt · Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Location: Nr Seoul

Could it possibly be that they are doing split shifts?

However, if they are doing ten classes back to back without a break then that is madness!!!

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

It's amazing what some people will put up with. I had 4 middle school lessons today and while it was lots of fun today, I'm wiped. I couldn't imagine doing twice that much to make money for someone else who may not even give a damn about his teachers or students.

UncleAlex · Joined: 04 Apr 2003

I am not surprised that one is teaching 10 classes a day at an ECC hagwon.
I met a former teacher who had taught at the ECC school in Yosu, who told
me that the teachers there had to teach 40 hours a week before they were
entitled to overtime pay. Even if each class is 40 minutes, it doesn't make a big
difference, since the teacher still has to prepare for each class and meet a different
group of kids each round. It's better to avoid any of these big franchises which
are nothing but white slave-labor camps. Cool

the eye · Joined: 29 Jan 2004

in addition the branches in Jisan/Beomul Dong, and the one at Gundulbawi Intersection are notorious for labor violations.

Homer · Guest

10 a day...that is nuts!

The most I did while working for an ECC a few years back was 8 in one day (only for a month as we covered classes until the new teacher arrived) and that was nuts...by class number 6 your brain is basically fried anyway!

TECO · Joined: 20 Jan 2003

At Berlitz we started at 6:30am and finished at 9:10pm. It was what we called a 'swiss cheese' schedule because we'd get one or two 45 minute breaks in between classes throughout the day.

They even had bunk-beds for us to sleep in.

It was the first time that I'd ever seen beds in a language school for teachers to sleep in because they worked such long schedules.

We commonly taught 10 - 12 lessons a day.