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[I_Am_The_Kiwi]

To you I say you are all *beep*.

Various teachers around the place have complained directly to the POE or their local office of edu and their coordinators and *beep* it up for everyone.

These teachers were NOT given extra time off over winter like some other lucky people get. It depends on your school and what they decide. So these people moaned about not getting extra days off like the others.

Thanks to this, most if not all schools have been notified to remove 'free time' in winter and give teachers something to do. This comes from POEs.

I for one was allowed to stay away from school all winter with no extra classes for once, after having to seat warm all last winter. Now i have to seat warm for 2 and a half weeks thanks to this BS.

To you who complained, you *beep* it up for everyone, and most likely every other future person this time off at the discretion of the schools will be removed. Good on you ya *beep*.

Hope you get trapped in an airport for your winter vacation.

Always someone who has to *beep* it up for the rest.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

That really annoys the hell out of me. I wish that only the schools that want an FT could apply for one and that then organisations like EPIK would just provide the base salary and then leave us alone. Fortunately my school seems to be well aware of the fact that one of the reasons I've stayed here so long is the amount of holiday time I get.

[Rusty Shackleford]

This really grinds my gears. I got a heap of extra days off over the summer and got to go home after camp was finished for the day.

If I have to sit in a cold office doing nothing all winter there will be hell to pay.

You have been warned!

[Rusty Shackleford]

[Smee]

I'm not in EPIK, but thankfully I've never had to keep a seat warm over break.

There's a form you can fill out---Korean teachers have to, too---which deals with professional development and what you plan to do during the break. Korean teachers are expected to prep for the upcoming semester, as are we, but they're permitted to work from home. If your handler says you have to come to school 9 to 5 to plan lessons, see about this form. Contract or not, I don't see why you should be forced to come to school, especially when you're the only teacher stuck in the office. I don't remember the name, but the form has "연수" in the title.

And people need to stop complaining about the contracts they signed . . . or at least stop doing it to the boss. EPIK is bad enough as it is without having dumbass 22-year-olds screwing it up for everyone else.

[Colorado]

It was bound to happen. Some teachers on this board just can't resist bragging about how much free time off they get during vacations.
Should of kept your mouth shut.

[Ramen]

Why shouldn't we complain?

I believe in equal employement opportunity.

[I_Am_The_Kiwi]

[Fishead soup]

This is pretty typical. As far as POE is concerned all they do is watch my open lesson. They sometimes plan afterschool programs or camps. Other than that they have 0 influence. These ole greyish suits are completely out of touch with reality. I've never seen them once take a NET's side in a dispute. It's best to have nothing to do with them.


"THEY CAN'T HELP YOU" Remember this.

[nicam]

Ooooooh, so THAT's why our local ed dep't called us all into a meeting and mandated that we work camps and/or seat-warm during the ENTIRE break. We were all really confused because we thought it was totally up to our individual schools (most of which had promised to give us time off), and furious with our local dep't.

Wow, they kept saying, "all foreign teachers have to do this...", and we were like WTF, and figured the local dep't was playing exploit the FTs. Snap.

[prideofidaho]

[mogbert]

[Ramen]

[mogbert]

btw, which POE is this?

[Smee]

So instead of trying to improve your stiuation you decide to bring everyone else down to your level? Awesome.