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Yu_Bum_suk
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 Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 3:57 pm Post subject: Mass lay-off of (Korean) HS teachers in Gangsangnamdo? |
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| Has anyone else heard much about this? Two teachers at my school are getting the ax, including an English teacher, by the sounds of things. Another ex-co-worker of my mine who now works for a school in Jinju is also on the chopping block come February. It seems that a lot of the numerous temp / contract English teachers in the province will be the first to go. The province wants to cut the total number HS teachers by almost 10%, from the sounds of things. |
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mrsquirrel
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| Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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THe contract teacher at my school (who is leaving tomorrow) said that there is going to be an option for contract teachers to study overseas at their own expense and come back to be paid a higher salary.
She doesn't like the idea of it since it's a lot of money and at least a year overseas. |
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tob55
Joined: 29 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 5:59 pm Post subject: Layoffs |
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| It is normal for the contract teachers to stay one year and then be let go. During the three years I have been at my public school I have had three different contract teachers who were here and gone after one year. I have also had two regular teachers who decided staying in the area I am located is worth it. he idea of layoffs isn't really that drastic because the regular licensed Korean teachers are guaranteed to have a school somewhere in the country by virtue of their place in the Korean educational system. They have less say where they are allowed to go, but they are generally guaranteed a job. |
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marlow
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| Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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| mrsquirrel wrote: |
She doesn't like the idea of it since it's a lot of money and at least a year overseas. |
Studying to be better on her on coin bothers her? |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 6:31 pm Post subject: Re: Layoffs |
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| tob55 wrote: |
| It is normal for the contract teachers to stay one year and then be let go. During the three years I have been at my public school I have had three different contract teachers who were here and gone after one year. I have also had two regular teachers who decided staying in the area I am located is worth it. he idea of layoffs isn't really that drastic because the regular licensed Korean teachers are guaranteed to have a school somewhere in the country by virtue of their place in the Korean educational system. They have less say where they are allowed to go, but they are generally guaranteed a job. |
I've also seen a number of contract teachers rotate through certain contract teacher positions. The difference is that this time round the two from my school who are going aren't getting replaced. I think part of it may have to do with the hiring of certain kinds of teachers (special needs, Korean writing, native-speaker English teachers, etc.) through special grants, most of whose salary is paid by the provincial or national government, not the school's general funds. This gives the provincial government more control over who gets hired to work where. |
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tob55
Joined: 29 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 6:37 pm Post subject: Watch out |
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| I dare say that the layoff of teachers will create some discontent for the teacher types that are being forced out. Now that you have mentioned this, it makes sense why the music teacher in my school is POd at me for no apparent reason. Maybe she has gotten word that her services will no longer be needed at the school in lieu of retaining me as a native English teacher for next school term. No great loss anyway. She has made plenty of enemies here in the school among her Korean comrades. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:38 pm Post subject: Re: Watch out |
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| tob55 wrote: |
| I dare say that the layoff of teachers will create some discontent for the teacher types that are being forced out. Now that you have mentioned this, it makes sense why the music teacher in my school is POd at me for no apparent reason. Maybe she has gotten word that her services will no longer be needed at the school in lieu of retaining me as a native English teacher for next school term. No great loss anyway. She has made plenty of enemies here in the school among her Korean comrades. |
Well, we can do most of what an English teacher could, but Korean teachers in other 'grant' jobs can do a lot of things like organise cleaning, supervise activities, general paperwork, discipline, A/V - IT work, etc., that we would have more trouble doing or just couldn't do unless the FT had a superb grasp of Korean, and wouldn't want to do even if we did. One of the contract teachers leaving next year is the one in charge of overseeing cleaning (not an enviable job), but that job could just as well be done by a special needs teacher.
I wonder if I'm in any way behind the decision to put the contract English teacher at the front of the line for the chopping block. If I can teach the 9 academic classes solo, and see them once a week, then that's 50% of a typical KT teaching load right there. Add to that the fact that one of the MS teachers at my school, who currently also teaches Hanja, could have six more free blocks to teach English at the HS if someone else taught Hanja, and it only makes sense. |
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