Head telling students to meet me for summer classes
Conveniently leaving out who will pay for them.
It’s a small, independent institution in the global majority and the students aren’t well to do, but I believed in the mission…before I started. The pay is already significantly less than what I’d like to make but I’m young and want to pay forward to communities with visions I believe in. However there seems to be more and more efforts by the head to extract more labour than I’m comfortable with, they already do it with the 4 other teachers who juggle several hats, some juggling 10 hats, actually. Recently I came up with an idea for a summer reading challenge, the head pushed for the introduction of a summer reading activity that would require me to check in with the students weekly, then students started coming up to me talking about summer classes mentioning that the head thought this would be a good idea.
I’ve communicated my boundaries to the head- very politely asking how I should respond to students because I don’t know what rate to set and hinting that I have other commitments during the summer seeing as that time is contractually free of any and all teaching duties, but seeing as other workers are so eager to be taken advantage of (one already confirmed he will do it for free), my gut tells me that I’ll be fired for being ‘greedy, money hungry and not dedicated enough to the mission as to forgo my autonomy, personal life hopes and aspirations’ but they’ll cover it up as ‘not a good cultural fit.’ how likely is this? From people who may have been in similar positions?