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[air76]

I am just curious what your university's sick day policy is. I will preface this statement by saying that I am NOT complaining about my school's policy as we only teach classes 28 weeks/year and have loads of vacation time, but am only curious.

So, at our school you must make up every class that is missed due to being sick. You can essentially call in sick as many times as you need (obviously within reason) but then need to make up the missed classes before the end of the semester. It just seems a little strange to me that you can't miss even one class in a semester. The Korean professors seem to be able to all-out cancel their classes when they are sick or even to do other things like take the kids to the park for a picnic (in which case our classes are cancelled as well, so they can not only cancel their classes but also ours)...at any rate, I am not starting another why do the Korean professors get X and not the foreign professors as we clearly do not have the same jobs...I am just curious if some universities do allow the English professors to cancel 1 class a semester if they are sick.

[zappadelta]

24 weeks/year? What kind of university is that?

[air76]

It's a university that hires professors who make typos....I meant to say 28 weeks.

Let me edit that.

[zappadelta]

[air76]

Pretty much every university in Korea...as far as I know.

There are two 16-week semesters, and during each of those semesters 2 weeks are designated as exam weeks, one for midterms and one for finals.

So there are only 14 weeks of instruction per semester, with about a 2 month break in the summer and a 2.5 month break in the winter.

[CKAB]

Man, I want to be a professor in Korea, I could take over half of the school year off and they wouldn't be able to fire me for it.

[air76]