From urbanmusiceducation.org
Everyone's talking about budget cuts and it seems that most schools are doing something to lower their costs. However, they seem to be going about it a bit wrong. Rather than lower the salaries of the fat cats in the head office here are something's that schools have down in order to try to lower their budgets.- Give teachers a trial period and pay them less or get rid of them when the trial period is over.
- 11 month firings: famous in Korea where a hagwon gets rid of you in the 11th month to avoid paying severance and flights.
- Breaking copyright laws and copying books
- Not giving teachers a computer
- Cutting overtime hours and pay
- Outsourcing classes
- Not cleaning your office or classroom
- Not turning on lights in the hallways
- Not giving teachers a lunch hour
- Not turning on heat (I've taught in classes that were 12 degrees Celsius which is about 53 degree Fahrenheit where my students and I were wearing our coats, gloves, and scarves and wrapping blankets around our legs. I'd love to see the hot shot admin not have heat in their offices.)
