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johnslat · Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 6:30 pm Post subject:

Dear Sheik,

"I refer to your comment that other countries besides the UK probably have the rule that teachers returning from overseas must prove with a police report that they've been behaving themselves. Not in the U.S."

When I returned to the USA, I had to undergo FIVE separate and distinct police checks (including fingerprints each time) for various teaching jobs. Oh, and each time, my references back in Saudi Arabia were contacted.
Admittedly, this did not include Santa Fe Community College (where I now work part-time.)
Apparently the reasoning is that students at that age level can deal with having, say, a serial killer as a teacher.
Regards,
John

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

All hail to the sage of Santa Fe. He knows best !

BillCowher · Joined: 21 Aug 2009 Posts: 131 Location: Up in the air!!!

Sheikh N Bake · Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 1307 Location: Dis ting of ours

I said RETURNING FROM OVERSEAS. There is no foreign police check required in US school districts, apparently... Also, your background checks were probably limited to the relevant LOCAL jurisdictions. I think Scot47 was referring to national background checks in his and other countries.

With Malice Toward None · Joined: 20 Oct 2009 Posts: 250

johnslat · Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 3:12 pm Post subject:

Dear WMTN,

Hmm, would that make me a "Writer of the Purple Sage" (my apologies to Zane Grey?)

Regards,
John

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

From someone who has just succeeded in this here it is :-

"1) Contact your embassy and ask them to send you a letter requesting
the police to give you a Criminal Record check. This letter must have
an Embassy stamp on it. It will probably have to state why you want
the check. Your Embassy will probably know what you want anyway.

2) Get the letter stamped by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SR25)

3) Present the letter to your local police station along with a
passport photograph and your iqama (If the letter does not have 2
stamps on it the police will not touch it). You may also need a letter
from your employer (I didn't). The police will then fill out a few
forms and take your fingerprints.

4) Wait a few weeks and your Criminal Record / Police Clearance
document should be ready to collect (Mine took 4 days)"

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Be prepared to pay a hefty fee to the Embassy !

007 · Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2010 3:57 pm Post subject: Re: It is easy

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

The "someone" who applied was not scot47. And cats should mind their own business. Now SCRAM before I bite you where it hurts.

007 · Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2010 4:39 pm Post subject:

Uncle Scott, why are you crouching with your teeth bared? Laughing

You want to bite me? Don't you know that dogs and cats are friend! Laughing

7168Riyadh · Joined: 19 Jan 2009 Posts: 149

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Then you won't be teaching or working with young people in the UK. Not even as a volunteer Sunday School Teacher !