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[boyne11]

Some EPIK schools are telling their FTs that if they aren't teaching they aren't getting paid during summer vacation.

http://forum.koredinco.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=86

[pkang0202]

So, you got 2 extreme's.

Case 1: No teaching, no paycheck.
Case 2: Since you ARE getting paid, they are going to work you like a dog all summer

I would LOVE to find a school that offered to pay me extra for summer camps. Instead, I'm stuck at one that will work my every single day.

[hubba bubba]

I've just about decided that working at a good hagwon is better than an average public school. The keyword is good.

So much extra aggravation at a public school.

[boyne11]

[Bibbitybop]

I'm not EPIK, but in Seoul public schools, you get paid no matter what. No school? Paid. Not teaching? Paid. It's the way the contract works. Unless your contract says different, take them to the labor board.

[oldfatfarang]

Some public schools DO pay extra for summer camp teaching.

For example, SMOE's BENEFITS include:

- 72,000 won extra a day (taxed).
- an extra 5 days PAID holidays (for working camp)
- free camp food (yumm).


But, as always in Korea, there's many COSTS:

- Compulsory 24 hour attendance, 7 days a week, for 3 weeks.

- Split shifts, 10 hour days,

- Compulsory saturday & sunday 'babysitting' activities and outings.

- Teachers lose 4 days (2 weekends).

- NO overtime paid for attending/working 24 hours on saturday or sunday (just the regular 72,000 won extra a day).

- Utilities Costs: while at camp some teachers will pay 62,000 won for utitilities they'll not use while they're at camp (courtesy of their school locking them into a compuslory management/utilities contract).

- SHARED dorm accommodation.

- And all this, on top of having to eat crappy camp food for 3 weeks (with no beer allowed).

So a cost/benefit analysis shows SMOE camps are a rip off. Teachers who signed an employment contract for 12 months are, in effect, having their working conditions/salary drastically reduced for 1 & 1/2 months of their 1 year contract. Way to go SMOE. That'll keep em onboard.

[Tony_Balony]

[quote]
I've just about decided that working at a good hagwon is better than an average public school. The keyword is good.

So much extra aggravation at a public school.
[quote]

Ah! You have become enlightened. You have dharma. Congratulations.

[Alyallen]

[Bibbitybop]

[boyne11]

[tob55]

Administrators seem to take many liberties with the money that is to be spent on the native English teacher...I knew of a guy who's admin took about 10 mil of the teacher's program money from the English budget and pocketed it discreetly so he could fund some other school projects and have some nice parties for himself and other teachers, but when the teacher needed anything they had to literally beg because the money just wasn't there in the budget...

The educational board caught on to what the guy was doing, so anytime the school needed or wanted to make an improvement to the English department, they would only receive money once they could show receipts for the work actually being done for the benefit of the English department...

I wonder how many parties will be thrown this summer off of the money the schools are holding back from the native English teachers...

[ttompatz]

[oldfatfarang]

[boyne11]

I wonder what EPIK schools will cook up next. It's always amusing to hear these supid people make up their own BS based on their BS interpretation of contract/law/regulation/etc......

[pkang0202]

SMOE still better than GEPIK.

GEPIK:

Camp 20 hours / week maximum.
no limitations on days.
no additional pay
no extra vacation

Thank you GEPIK. I hope every teacher leaves GEPIK for a better gig.