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williamsabia
Joined: 30 May 2011
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 Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 6:32 pm Post subject: POLY schools |
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| I have been offered a position at a POLY school in Seoul with a good pay (2.7 million) but I have heard that they make you work harder there? Is it just more in depth teaching or do you have to take out the trash or something? Are POLY schools more reputable? Has anyone worked at one? |
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marsavalanche
Joined: 27 Aug 2010
Location: where pretty lies perish
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| Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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Do people not check these forums anymore out of laziness and just insist on making new threads? This topic gets covered weekly it seems like.
As for OP, YES, take the job! |
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nw25th
Joined: 15 Feb 2009
Location: Daejeon
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| Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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| good god...do NOT work at POLY...unless you want to live at work.... |
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furtakk
Joined: 02 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 1:39 am Post subject: |
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| POLY can be okay if your branch is good, but you will be at work all day. If you teach the morning shift you will basically have no life during the week and by the time Friday comes you'll be quite burnt out. |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 2:16 am Post subject: |
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| nw25th wrote: |
| good god...do NOT work at POLY...unless you want to live at work.... |
It's not so much the hours that bother me as the fact that you don't get a minute to breath. I work a kindy, 9-6:30, and I really don't mind being at school that long, but I'm only teaching for about five hours of that a day. I'd burn out hard core if I had to teach from 9-7:30 with an hour break which you basically have to use for marking and prep, which essentially seems to be the standard Poly deal. |
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carleverson
Joined: 04 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 2:33 am Post subject: |
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| Its a very stressful job based on the LONG hours and the constant micromanaging of the director / academic coordinator. Personally, I don't think the money is worth the stress and hassle. |
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Bruce W Sims
Joined: 08 Mar 2011
Location: Illinois; USA
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| Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 3:25 am Post subject: |
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| carleverson wrote: |
| Its a very stressful job based on the LONG hours and the constant micromanaging of the director / academic coordinator. Personally, I don't think the money is worth the stress and hassle. |
I appreciate the input since I have been looking at this chain of schools very closely. What I am hearing is that these schools are stressful and demanding, which, in my experience is what teaching in a good institution is about. Teaching, itself, is inherently stressful with a great number of people including co-workers, the dept chair, program director and school management all second-guessing everything that the teacher does. Teaching, as a career is a high-stress, low paying job compared to all other professions. It seems that not a few folks thought differently. IMHO.
Best Wishes,
Bruce |
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