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[babtangee]

Got this job offer. Is this normal? Are people really teaching this much without overtime? Seemed like a lot of classes when I read it (7-8 classes per day, no overtime!).

I think I've been coasting on my laurels, teaching a mere 120 40-minute classes per month for the past year. But before that I was working part time at an elementary school for 28,000 per 40-minute class. Man, if I could have taught 155 of those, that would have been damn near 4.5 million.

Please stop letting them work you so hard (for free), people! They will freakin' expect me to do it!

[Novernae]

Our first contract had that annoying 'hour' clause in it, but we didn't notice or know any better, and no one on Dave's pointed it out to us. Although they never held us to it and even gave us overtime pay when we were nowhere near it but teacher outside of regular hours, we still would never sign it again. We had 120 true hours of 45 minute classes, which could have been 160 classes. Funny thing was it was impossible to fit that many classes into the schedule (and in practice we were only teaching 20-25 classes a week). Then they changed the class length to 35 minutes and our number of classes shot up, so we as soon as the contract was up. The first thing we looked at in our new contract was if an hour was defined as 60 minutes or as one class.

[wylies99]

It's a lot of time to be at the hogwan- teaching or not teaching. Some hogwans want 180 classes of 40 minutes per month.