Recent posts under the Google :"Gwangju Foreign School"http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2579016 show that the school is actually in the "black" or if my terminology is correct no longer in the "red", and that it has been that way since 2005. Well that's good to hear, especially since the Holleys promote their summer camp on the basis that it's needed to paye the salaries of the teachers and staff. An honest institution payes their staff salary based on normal teaching requirements. Any work done over and beyond that like a camp or extra teaching hours is extra paye. The Holleys are always going on and on about how their school is running at a loss, so man they gotta be the biggest liers under the sun.
The same recent posts show that their other school in Cholla Bukdo is running in the red. I'm wondering if the camp they run in Gwangju is to make money off the backs of the teachers to prop up this other school. If so then that stinks, but by the same token if they would be willing to paye their teachers for working at their camp then they would be showing a little decency. (That would be asking a lot from these cut throat exploiters, but you never know)
By the time one adds in the cost for the meals, the cost for the buses, and other expenses the total cost per student is no different from any other International school.
I mentioned in one of my earlier reports how a female teacher on quitting her two year contract after a year recieved an e mail from the Holleys saying she would be blacklisted from teaching anywhere in Korea. The article in the Joongang daily says that the Holleys were afraid they might lose teachers, and were hoping they wouldn't jump contract. How hilarious. No Institute in their right mind will tolerate a teacher just up and leaving. To imply that Gwangju Foreign school would have bowed to the wishes of teachers wanting to leave for a better school is cracked in the head. The holleys are vicious, dirty, and completely underhand when it comes to their teachers wanting to leave before their contract has expired.
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There was a comment about the Holleys blackmailing the teachers into doing a free English camp out and about somewhere. Probably came from the International review page.
It's too bad the Holley's school has the reputation it does. the reviews about it on the international school's page are pretty bad. most of the international schools in Korea have horror stories on that same review page.
I guess he succumbed to the Korean malaise of "get whatever you can regardless of the consequences of who you get it from"
The Holley's get away with murder so to speak, because the administration don't really support the staff. I know the principal who was there before the present principal was essentially a "flunkie" or "yes man" for the Holleys. He was more concerned about his own thing than he was about the students or the staff at the time. I don't know how the present administration are standing up to the Holley's or whether they are even bothering.
There was a principal named Mr Schuster who did have some integrity and who stood up for the students and the staff when the Holleys tried to swing one over on them. I understand the summer camp was inirtially for 6 weeks, and not the three weeks that it is now. He is responsible for getting it reduced to three weeks I have heard. The Holleys tried to fire him, and he had to get legal help to get his last pay check, but at least he had the balls to stand up to the crookedness of the owners. the principal following him was a complete disgrace to any form of human decency.
I await judgement on the present administration. I'll say this though. If they can't wangle payment for the staff for the summer camp, then they are a bunch of "yes men " too.
Interesting stuff about the camp. Apparently Korean Immigration caught a lot of illegal teachers working at several camps, and deported them.
The other school owned by the Holleys has closed down, and the staff from the school are now working at the gwangju School
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