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Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

It's happened again. My co-teacher just came over to my desk with another new schedule AND the news that I'm being rented out to yet another school. An entirely different school wanted to borrow me on Friday and we met with the principal of that place and squelched that plan. But this one is not squelchable.

The bad news: 100+ middle school kids for two hours on Friday. Shocked

We will meet with that principal this afternoon. I'm going to try to trim down the brainstorm to maybe just the Grade 3 kids for two hours.

ilovebdt · Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Location: Nr Seoul

laogaiguk · Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Location: somewhere in Korea

tzechuk · Joined: 20 Dec 2004

Take them all to the gym and have them run wild!!!

TheUrbanMyth · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Location: Retired

Three schools? Immigration is okay with this?

HapKi · Joined: 10 Dec 2004 Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL

They'll all get to met the famous Ya-Ta in person.
Spend the time signing autographs, posing for photos, and letting them Dong-Chim you.
If they start getting out of hand, start talking about Iowa. That should put them to sleep.
The 2 hours will breeze by.

jinju · Joined: 22 Jan 2006

Angelus · Joined: 10 Feb 2006

The price of your celebrity my friend. Can I have your autograph? I guess it's good to be in demand than not.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

The principal didn't show. It's less than a 5 minute walk down the highway, but maybe he got lost, I don't know. I'm left dangling, wondering if this will turn out to be a pleasant gig like my other middle school assignment or some horrendous debacle.

I'm angling to dump my two loser classes. I got assigned two classes a week where they are using English class as the dumping ground for the (HS) Grade 2 boys no one wants to mess with. (Everyone hates them--and they deserve it.)

What boggles me is why all these different schools didn't sit down together early last summer and decide who got how much time of each of the foreigners that were hired by the county. I'll bet with one piece of paper and an hour worth of work with all these people in the same room, all this could have been figured out. Instead, we have two principals from different little towns sitting in the same office, one on the hand phone to a third principal in a different town and a vice principal on the hand phone to someone at the county office...all talking at the same time.

ARG!

Hobophobic · Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 5:38 am Post subject:

U R 2

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That is what happens...they all want a piece of you...you're famous now, and they all want some of ya while you're hot and before you stop cutting your hair and toe nails....you best comply or archaeologists will find your remains in that swamp when they dredge it in 200 years to build the 6633 building...

tony602 · Joined: 13 Feb 2006

You may be the hot commodity...and you might be confused for the next missing link someday...and many people will say it doesnt happen...but I also have to question the legality...if immigration doesnt know...and if all the schools youre being "rented" to arent listed on your immigration card...you are working illegally at all these different schools...you do not want to be the one that is made an example of...and are you getting renumeration for all the extra work beyond your contract?? Again...you are doing this illegally according to the foreign workers labor laws in this country...they dont enforce those...like everything else here...until one of these schools doesnt like your performance and a little birdy tells one of their buddies in immigration...be careful....private lessons are just as illegal...but way less so in the exposure department...100 plus kids...Id be sketched out by that unless they were throwing lots of cash my way...Id want a few bucks before I got deported....just food for thought!! A simple call to your embassy, and getting the number to the labor board, would stop this practice by your hagwon in a NY minute!!

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

This whole thing has died on the vine. At least that is the most recent word. What happened is that they looked at my schedule and saw there was no open space to stick in 2 more classes without dropping 2. Duh. Since the one who discovered this is the same person who made the schedule, I don't know why it took quite this long.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

Reports of the death of that plan die were premature.

The new thinking is that I should be used as 'advertising' to attract boys to our high school. "See! We have a living, breathing waygookin of our own" kind of thing. (Our high school is not popular. Parents want their kids to go to big high schools.)

So the irony is, I'm to be sent to the middle school up the road in order to make them want to come to our high school. In order for me to do this, two of my classes here at the high school will be cut. So...come to this high school where we have a waygookin teacher, but he doesn't really teach here--he's out teaching in the middle schools to recruit you. Shocked

I just inserted a wire coat hanger in my mouth so that I appear to be smiling. It's all I could think of.

Rteacher · Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Western MA, USA

I noticed when I signed on for a second year at my public technical high school that my contract indicates that my actual employer is not my particular school but the Gyeongi-do educational agency (whatever it's called...) and they may assign me wherever they like in addition to my main workplace. Probably that's the case with "Ya-ta Boy's" contract so their sending him here-and-there wouldn't be illegal...

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994