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thrifty · Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 1665 Location: chip van

It has just been reported to Thrifty that a certain language school in Şirinevler offered to employ a young woman who was brought up in the UK and has a degree and CELTA but as she has a Turkish name, she was told to change it.

She refused the job.

saloma · Joined: 07 Jul 2005 Posts: 211

Good for her! I think the name changing thing is crap. Why do you have to pretend to be someone you're not? Pretend not to speak Turkish when you do?

Schools argue it has to do with students complaining. It's about time Turkish students and the schools grew up and accepted it's a big world and not everyone fits perfectly into what you want them to be.

If we are thinking of the same school, they must be desperate, there was a big turnover there last week....

thrifty · Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 1665 Location: chip van

Same school. As you know 4 teachers went last week. 2 were sacked and 2 walked out. One of them was the acting head teacher.

That place never learns. Evil or Very Mad

tekirdag · Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 505

What?! What?! How can you gossip and not say the name of the school?!

thrifty · Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 1665 Location: chip van

Eh Tekirdağ, the school cannot be named.

tekirdag · Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 505

Like Voldermort?

thrifty · Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 1665 Location: chip van

tekirdag · Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 505

Voldermort (may have spelled it wrong) is the evil guy in the Harry Potter series. Non of the characters are permitted to say his name. He is the one-who-shall-not-be-named.

Baba Alex · Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 2411

NAME AND SHAME

NAME AND SHAME

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

Mehtap · Joined: 16 Mar 2006 Posts: 14 Location: Istanbul/Turkiye

When 'Some' schools advertise to recruit students they tend to stress that 'all' there teachers are native. Therefore, if they have teachers on board who have non-native names, students will question whether or not they are native. This is the only reason name changing is required and it has nothing to do with students wanting to speak to the teacher with a Turkish name in Turkish. I know Native speakers with Turkish Names who can hardly speak Turkish anyway!

It leaves me wondering how many non-native teachers are employed and then forced to change their name, therefore blatantly lying to the students!!!

whynotme · Joined: 07 Nov 2004 Posts: 728 Location: istanbul

Golightly · Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 9:14 am Post subject:

might it be a certain school that likes to Phone Home and is featured on the Thrifty fable thread? Twisted Evil

on another note, this refusal to employ people with non-Anglo sounding names is nothing new, nor is the practice of not employing non-whites where possible. Mad

tararu · Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 494

I find the whole thing a bit weird really. I think l might extend this whole prejudice thing a bit further.......Have you guys noticed that most of the tv ads relating to the Turkish family or children mostly use actors who look very arian or at least have light skin and blue eyes. I find it rather disturbing really.....it's a bit like Michael Jackson's bleaching his skin white.

Golightly · Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 9:50 am Post subject:

Well, Turkish Reklamistan is a weird place - the art work often looks strangely Socialist-Realist. Have you seen the newspaper ad for Turkish Airways?