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carolync · Joined: 24 Jan 2007 Posts: 38 Location: Phoenix, Az

Anyone know anything about this school? Thanks!

Prof.Gringo · Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 8:50 pm Post subject:

The best way to find a job in Mexico is to be here on the ground. Now is the time to be here. Even just a week or two here will give you some perspective and the ability to see if a school is or is not what you are looking for. I spent a month in Queretero. I think its a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't live there for a year. Now somebody else will probably say that Queretaro was/is their favorite place in Mexico. Different strokes for different folks. I wouldn't take a job with a school sight unseen, but that's just me. I am speaking from personal experiance. Maybe someone else has been to this school in Queretaro and can offer an informed opinion of it.

J Sevigny · Joined: 26 Feb 2006 Posts: 161

I would agree with what the previous poster said and add that if you haven't taught secondary school before (Colegio usually means secondary, in Guadalajara, anyway) make sure it's what you really want to do.

For all I know, you may be a teacher with 15 years of middle school experience in the States. If so, disregard what I'm saying. But if you're a new teacher, I wouldn't advise diving into the world of teaching and the world of young adolescents at the same time. I tried it when I first started out, and for me, anyway, it was hell on earth.

El Gallo · Joined: 05 Feb 2007 Posts: 318

I will second the thought that starting teaching in Mexico in secondaria may be tough. As a new teacher, I taught English in a private secondaria and prepa. It was a rich kids school and the discipline problems were hell. The prinicipal didn't want disruptive kids expelled from class and she wanted their grades changed if the parents protested.

The second time someone lit a "stink bean" in my class (smells like a fart only much bigger), I told my students they would be getting a new English teacher. To my amazement, the students begged me to stay, apologized and one fourteen year old boy actually cried (I was embarrassed for us both). The prinicpal, coordinator and administrator asked me to stay but the thought of 30 of 50 students causing trouble every day was more than I could take, so I left. I decided I needed more experience before I took on such a challenge.