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[640x480]

She gave her public school a 2 month notice on Friday...

Today, she heard from her teacher that she is fired and she needs to pay the school back for the flight ticket...

IT's a nightmare. She suspects they didn't want to here get past her 6 months half way mark so they fired her now.

I told her to contact Dain as the first step, but can the school fire her just because she plans on leaving them??

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[bassexpander]

If she's going home and never coming back, she needs to pull a runner.

[640x480]

She wants to stay. Her plan was to move into somewhere in seoul, go to a hawkwon or something...

Is it possible for her to sign with somewhere before she leaves, run to thailand or something and renew her visa?

[reimund]

Wow. Why am I thinking this is someone I know? Is she in Suwon?

[mountainous]

[640x480]

Nah, not in Suwon.

She is 4+ months into the contract. She figured a 2 month notice now + the previous 4 = 6months total.

[MrRogers]

sorry to hear this

I was fearful of something like this happening to me when I gave a month and a half notice before the end of six months

however, I was lucky and the only hassle was the last day trying to be paid on time and correctly

public school supervisor still tried to rip me off, though

goes to show that public schools are just as nasty as any hogwan

can't trust anyone

[Jeff's Cigarettes]

How did they "try" to bun ya?

[MrRogers]

long story about him trying not to pay me on time

and then waiting till after banking hours on a Friday before I am to leave for the airport over the weekend

also

supervisor tried to not pay me for a couple of days at the end...thought I would not notice or calculate but I had everything calculated and pasted on the desktop because I didn't trust him from day one and thought he would pull something on the last day when I am trying to get out of there to catch a flight

it goes on and on with this guy who is like something from the 1950s and is supposed to be a superivsor in a public school district; knows nothing about what he is supervising, speaks no English, and is unprofessional in communication, etc., etc., etc.

[Countrygirl]

I believe that they have to give 2 written warnings before a public school can fire you. I looked into it when I was thinking of quitting. Almost impossible for the school to do since most of your friend's last 2 months are during vacation time. And a public school FT can only be fired for real reasons and not because they didn't like you.

Your friend should
- contact Dain immediately
- document everything

Good luck!

Let us know how it turns out. I'm sure more and more people will go through this as public schools become wise to the many ways they can save their precious won.

[Korussian]

Although your friend was obligated to give 2 months of notice of termination, her principal was only required to give two weeks of notice.

GEPIK 2008 Contract, Article 16.2:

[marlow]

[640x480]

So if talking to the principle or dain doesn't help, she's out of otions?

[Korussian]