Luck for me I teach at a middle school. This year all but 8 of the high school teachers had their jobs cut due to budget restrictions. Where possible they will be moved to either elementary or middle schools within an hour of where they are living, but won't find out where they will be teaching until February next year (just before semester starts).
It could have been worse. Our coordinator was told she needed to cut the budget by 50%, meaning half of us would lose our jobs. Thankfully she went in to bat for us and managed to claw back some of the budget (around 85%), meaning that ultimately it would only be the high school teachers who lost their jobs. Moving forward there will be 216 western English teachers in Daejeon public schools in 2014.
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