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[vonnegutjr]

Hello-

I really like my public school job but have some serious issues with what they are doing with the summer/winter camps. The mystery of payment and when you will be working is a mystery I can't deal with. So I will submit my resignation soon and leave after 6 months to work at a Uni. I am wondering, for those who have experience quitting a PS job, how is it? It can't be the most comfortable thing to do. I imagine I will be desk warming instead of being free in the summer. Did you get your letter of release ok? The cordinator told me I will have no problem getting it but I am nervouse ofcourse. I am thinking of sugar coating my resignation letter despite my desire to asert the PS shortcomings. I really think they are better off just recruiting new comers because they have no expectations of what there job should be like and don't know how it used to be. Would you recommend writing a "nice" resignation letter?

Thanks for the input!

[lifeinkorea]

Can they understand the intent of a letter? I had a few issues with the school I am at now, and whenever I typed them out we would have a meeting. The principal would then tell my co-teacher to ask me, "Are there any other problems you are dealing with?"

This is their way of snowballing you. They do NOT want to deal with your concerns. They have an agenda, and either it is going to be played out their way, or you won't be put in a good position.

I ended up having to put my foot down and give them the ultimatum to change my schedule to one that is more in line with what we agreed to in the contract or find a teacher the following week. I then started preparing for that, later finding out the vice-principal didn't want to deal with finding another teacher. So they caved in and changed the schedule until I leave.

The next teacher will have to teach 1st and 2nd graders for 2 hours. They will then not be able to see the same students until 2 months have passed. That's like only 6 times a year. How on earth can students possibly learn with only 6 meetings? I look back at my elementary school days and wonder what the teachers would have said if I missed all but 12 days of school (since maybe one class was 1 hour or less)

So, my advice is to initiate contact with anyone you can higher up instead of writing a letter. Get support of other teachers and facing the school as a group will bring better results than a written letter only by you which might be perceived as nothing but demanding. After all, only the principal should feel the power of demanding things (that is, according to the Korean logic).

[Beeston27]

[vonnegutjr]

I should clarify that my six months will be up on August 25th. The resignation is a done deal. I already negotiated for no desk warming (which will ultimately be taken away) and I don't feel the desire to negotiate for vacation when I have a perfectly good uni job lined up. How do you put up with this vacation nonsense two times a year?
Alas, I am just wondering if anyone has made the transition and how uncomfortable was it? Did the school try anything sneaky? I have a friend going through the same transition from public to uni and he thinks they will take his flight money.

[halfmanhalfbiscuit]

If he's not re-signing with the same provincial BOE he can take it as a given he'll not receive airfare.