Job Discussion Forums

[scepticalbee]

So, my advice would be to gather with the other teachers and to talk about it...
The school won't hesitate to tarnish your reputation so, you don't have to hesitate either to talk about all the bad treatments and the terrible management you've witnessed there.

[scepticalbee]

It looks a little bit like "an eye for an eye", but you should keep in mind that you don't deserve to be torn apart just because you've been dealing with a slack team when you were working in the school...
You have the entire right to defend yourself too, and nobody has the right to decide whether or not you could continue to work as a teacher in the future.

[scepticalbee]

I'm sorry, I don't know why I have to split all my messages like this, but I can't post bulky messages at all!
Does anybody know why, btw?

[HLJHLJ]

[scepticalbee]

I didn't advice her to bad mouth the school at all!
Maybe I wasn't clear enough but my idea was to talk with other teachers who underwent the same treatment and then to complain against the school to whoever is concerned by that.
She should avoid to stay alone as this would torn her apart even more.
However, the school will never hesitate to massacre your reputation as a teacher and if there is a bad mouthing, it always comes from the school's administrative team and not from the teachers themselves...

[santi84]

Her 4th complaint was that the other teachers would not help her. If she tries to rally those same teachers to complain against the school, her reference will get a lot worse If they won't help her when she's a co-worker, how do you figure they will rally with her after she left and endanger their own jobs/references too?

nomad soul's original advice was spot-on.

[scepticalbee]

Hi again, Santi,
The fact that Nomad Soul's post was spot-on is good, really.
But I can also give my personal viewpoint as well. (if you don't mind of course, Santi...)
Now, she has to defend herself in any possible way.
Letting things go doesn't help and applying to far, far away places as advised by Nomad Soul won't help as well... Schools do contact each other especially if they're located in the same country and Skype exists now for the schools located in other time zones.

[nomad soul]

[scepticalbee]

[quote="nomad soul"]

[scepticalbee]

[quote="nomad soul"]

[spiral78]

Thinking of taking a CELTA, and criticizing the advice of teachers who have been in the field for years - do consider that employers read these forums. And there are always clues even to those of us who post anonymously.

I really know people who haven't gotten positions, or even interviews, because of posts here - Dave's is pretty influential.

[scepticalbee]

And that was the second one...
(I'm sorry, I have posting problems...)
I don't agree with both of them because i think that the school wouldn't appreciate the fact that, either you dissimulate a teaching experience (why? suspicious...) or you don't want to talk about the problematic school especially when they got a bad reference about you (why? suspicious...)
This is only my opinion, though...

[scepticalbee]

Hi Spiral, thank you for your post.
I'm not criticizing anybody in here and I don't know where you got this impression from...
I'm just trying to discuss a point, while sharing my personal viewpoint with others, that's all...
Now, I don't understand why you seem to be threatening me of making me be a jobless teacher for the rest of my life... This is not really a positive attitude too, and I don't think that Dave is a dictatorial guru of some gloomy sect either, so...

[spiral78]

[scepticalbee]

Yes, Spiral, I already know that, thanks for the recall and for the help, really!
I've already told you that in my topic about Celta...
Now, another problem is discussed in here... What do you think about it? According to you, what would be the best attitude to have in such situations?