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jkelly80 · Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Location: you boys like mexico?

Today after doing 9 days of a district camp, I've been informed that my 7 day camp at my home SMOE school is not giving me a budget. Is this kosher? My camp starts on Monday and I have no budget. My principal is a jerk.

sojourner1 · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 3:11 am Post subject:

NO, it's not kosher. What are you wanting a budget for? To be paid extra? While this is not specifically stated in our contracts, it's often provided as an appreciation as money is flowing in K-land. Camp pay is provided when the principal or other person charge is kind hearted enough to share the wealth with the teachers allowing for English camp to be an English camp. An honest and appreciative person will manage the funds fairly, but your jerk principal is probably taking a huge bonus for himself and is being a jerk since he knows he is corrupt and you're challenging him by asking. I don't blame you, I'd ask about all these sorts of things too.

I find it hard to believe there is no budget and I would not take that as an answer. Ask him, "How are we suppose to run a program with no funding?" If he says there is no funding. Ask him to look further and surely a way will be found, but if not found by Monday, the camp is off. Show emotion that you really care about the camp, but that you're also upset that he didn't secure funding. (pssst, he really already did)

You have to negotiate and push for anything in order to get it when not provided up front by a generous and considerate person.

I'm thankful and happy that I've got a good looking situation here. The casino provides most of our camps funding and it looks like it's flowing.

jkelly80 · Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Location: you boys like mexico?

moosehead · Joined: 05 May 2007

you need to talk to your district supervisor about this - the money runs thru them -

be specific about what you need and how much, be prepared to email him a list and lesson plan.

and yes, you should be paid a little "something" for it - if it's not at your school, if it is, well, sorry but you're SOL there - anyway, ALL smoe schools have english dept budgets, like the other poster said, your P is pocketing it for his mistress or something.

jkelly80 · Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Location: you boys like mexico?

matthews_world · Joined: 15 Feb 2003

I don't mind footing the bill to make my PS camp pleasurable for the students.

The only thing my PS pays for is snacks for the students and some prizes at the end. At least that's something.

jkelly80 · Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Location: you boys like mexico?

I_Am_The_Kiwi · Joined: 10 Jun 2008

money should definitely be there for camp expenses.....

like you say, the materials you need....you cant be expected to go and buy em, someone will have some money sitting somewhere for this. Ask around, tell them you need those things for your classes, otherwise your gonna do boring ass powerpoints and white paper hand outs with no fun....

this mean kids dont like it, tell parents and they complain....in the long run less kids sign up in the future...

its in their best interest to allocate 'some' money for you to buy shit.

Katchafire · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:05 pm Post subject:

I handed the school a shopping list of necessary items. Eggs for the egg drop (along with materials to make the egg-drop contraption out of), food for two cooking days (spaghetti and hamburgers). They bought all of it - enough for 50 students.
Now the annoying thing is - of the 50 that were expected, and confirmed .... at the end of week one, only 20 have shown up in their various classes.

It really annoys me that the parents don't show the courtesy to at least phone the school in the morning to say if their child isn't going to be here.
Grrrrrrrrrr.

Easter Clark · Joined: 18 Nov 2007 Location: Hiding from Yie Eun-woong

jkelly80 · Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Location: you boys like mexico?

Basically I worked about 30 hours of OT and got 300k, which is fine b/c I'm getting 5 days off for free. So it's 10k/hour and then 40 hours paid vacation that doesn't count for vacation. Does that make sense? I'm taking 11 days off but they're only taking off 6 days.

So that's fine.

But I just found out it's the district camp school that's paying me 300k, not MY school. So they're skimming the extra baek manwon they're getting from my district. They just lost themselves a native teacher for next year.