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cruisemonkey · Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 6:08 pm Post subject: Were you Given A Computer?

Yesterday, all the teachers at my school got computers, desks and office chairs for our apartments (supplied by the school district). It's great to be able to go online without having to go to the staff room.

I'm guessing that most private hogwans would not do this...

Gopher · Joined: 04 Jun 2005

joe_doufu · Joined: 09 May 2005 Location: Elsewhere

Are public school teachers unionized like they are in the US? That would explain it.

cruisemonkey · Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 9:27 pm Post subject:

I'm not really a public school teacher. I work at a new 'English Immersion Camp' located at a high school and am paid by the school district. I know I'm not unionised.

I have the same students all day, but a different class (elementary or middleschool) every week. There are six, 45-minute classes each day and students attend the 'Camp' 9:00 - 4:00 (Mon. - Fri.).

livinginkorea · Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Location: Korea, South of the border

I went to my new school yesterday and the boss asked me if I wanted a desktop or laptop! I'm in a public school and I've decided to get a laptop so that I don't have to be in one set place(i.e. the staffroom).

joe_doufu · Joined: 09 May 2005 Location: Elsewhere

shawner88 · Joined: 01 Feb 2003

My boss gave me a computer once. An old Pentium 2 64 MB RAM and 4GB Harddrive. Cracked me up, especially when he came back for it a month later cause his daughter needed to type a paper. This is the same guy that spent all day everyday photocopying Let's Go books for the sudents instead of buying them (and still charging the kids for them, I might add).