So with my new contract I no longer have to teach kids. That was one of my main demands when renegotiating the contract. I stressed it, and they understood.

I figured somewhere along the line under the new contract they’d try to get me to teach kids again, maybe under some “special circumstances,” like if they desperately needed a substitute foreign teacher or something. And then I’d have to just be a jerk and refuse to do it because there’s no way I’m going to set a precedent and let myself be taken advantage of.

I figured that might happen after a month or two under the new contract. So I was not at all prepared for what happened on my first day under the new contract. I was approached by my supervisor and told, “apologetically,” that they’d still need me to teach Monday nights because there was no one else to do it.

Excuse me??? The funny thing is it was at the one kindergarten that I totally hated teaching for. I taught at 4 kindergartens regularly last semester. I actually liked my Thursday morning one, and I was indifferent to my Tuesday morning ones, but I loathed my weekly Monday night ordeal. And now they were telling me I’d have to keep teaching there after explicitly extricating myself from teaching under the new contract??

So I just told my supervisor that no, she was mistaken. I would not be doing any more teaching. She made several lame protests, but I think she knew right away from my initial reaction that it was a lost cause. If she had really been serious I would have left the company right there. She just had to “give it a try.”

So now they need another foreigner, and they want me to help look. I’ll help them look, but I certainly won’t teach, even if I can’t find someone. Not my problem anymore.