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[xCustomx]

This past summer I was required to sit in the office until 5pm, even though my summer camp classes finished at 12. I never complained about this, as I know that it's written in my contract. About a month ago I asked my co-teacher if I could leave after the classes finish during the winter camp, but was told that I would have to wait and see. Well, my co-teacher is planning the winter camp dates now and I was told that if I finish at noon then I will have to stay until 5 again.

Is there anything that I can do that might get my vice-principal/principal to change their minds and let me go home early, rather than freeze my butt off in the office for 5 hours a day?

[nomad-ish]

[xCustomx]

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[wings]

I got out of having to stay by claiming that I need a hot lunch everyday, so if they can't give me one at the school (which they can't if I"m the only one here) then I will have to go home so I can cook something for myself, so that I can stay healthy.

[nomad-ish]

[xCustomx]

[nobbyken]

My GEPIK contract recognizes the difference between semester time and vacation time by stating that I work 20 hours a week max during vacation time.
This equates to 4 hours per day, and I can't see how they can make me work 8 hours a day like during semester time.

Last camp, they never tried and let me go if I had finished preping for the next day. I always had to spend a few hours as I had no time to do prep till the day before camp.
(This winter, I am doing all the on empty days in school enabling me to leave smartish after a possibly stressful day.)
Last camp, they would order in food, highlight of the day it seems, which may take most of 1 hour to cook and eat. This left me stressed for preping for the after lunch class I had agreed to, everyone else just pottered about for a bit.

If the contract stipulates that you are there from blahblah to blahblah, then you should stay.
If contract says 4 hours a day, then you can interpret 4 hours a day and negotiate.

[boyne11]

Sick leave is always good bargaining tool.

Use them if you have to.

[xCustomx]

[nobbyken]

No, I have the one stating 20 hours a week during the break.

It says that normal hours are from 8.30 to 4.30, but break is not normal.

This time I told them that I would do 4 hours a day, no problem.
Last time VP said I could leave after prepped for the next day, this was related to me by the music teacher, but not in a song.

EDIT : 20 a week = 4 a day (8.30-12.30), or 8 a day x 2.5.

[kat2]

Tell them you want to take the time off to take a Korean class. If you tell them you have a private Koean tutor, then they can't really check up on you to see if you are enrolled. They let teachers at my school go all the time for "professional development".

[icnelly]

Where does it say in the GEPIK contract about sitting on your duff all day during the summer and winter? I might have missed it the last time I read through...

[fromtheuk]

I enjoyed summer camp. I had a few weeks alone, without my co-teacher. I felt relaxed teaching.

I have already bought a heater for work, I advise you to do the same, that way you won't feel so cold.

I personally don't mind staying until 4.40pm. I just surf the net and sit around looking around the room, feeling appreciative and thankful I have complete peace and quiet.

For me it feels a bit like vacation time.

[boyne11]

[fromtheuk]

During class they will put on the heating, but in the afternoon when my class has finished, I assume the heating will be turned off.

In my office, which is next door to the English classroom, there is a vent for the heating to come through, but I think it's faulty and never works.

I was forewarned by my co-teacher to bring in a heater for winter camp. I bought one anyway, before that advice, when it started to get too cold in my office (especially during the afternoons).

I haven't taken a day off sick since the start of this job, about 7 months ago, I will start to use them nearer the end of the contract, if I really want to.