Monday, March 24, 2008

Gwangju school and blackmail or extortion

Mrs Holley constantly uses the threat of having teachers blacklisted should they leave before their contract has finished. That's gotta be one of the lowest tactics one could use to keep people in their place. She can't blacklist anyone because they just up and leave. Gwangju foreign school isn't a big name school, and for one thing there isn't an International school blacklist for stuff like that. There isn't a blacklisting of teachers breaking their contracts in Korea either. The only way any one is blacklisted in Korea is if they stay way over after their visa time has expired, or if they are deported for drugs or any other serious crime. Breaking a contract at Gwangju foreign school is neither a felony nor a misdemeanour. It's nothing, and their isn't a thing the Holleys can do about it. There was a teacher who dared to leave before her contract had expired, and who recieved an e mail from from the Holleys informing her that she was going to be blacklisted for doing so. My God, any organization that has to resort to those kinds of contol tactics to intimidate their teachers, should close it's doors and look for another buisnes.

Glad to see someone else has added information about the Holleys enrolling students whom havent lived abroad for the mandatory 5 years. They are breaking the law left, right and center by doing this, and Mr Holley is a lawyer and an active participant in his church as well. Oh well going to church doesn'r guarantee good beaviour obviously. By law, International Foreign schools are not to enrol anyone unless their passports show that they were residents in another country for at least 5 years.
There are many students at Gwangju foreign school who have never been abroad for periods other than their summer and winter vacations.

1 comment:

Wonderful said...

Rumour has it that the principal who was there before Mr Lynn had to get legai help to get his last paycheck. Don't know all the details, but if something like this did happen, I am sure the Holleys tried extortion of sorts to intimidate the principal so he wouldn't ask for or try to get his last paycheck