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zooey
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Asda: that FB posting is from May 2008.
There IS a new principal, and he IS changing the school. He is on the job early every morning, greets every teacher, and stays on the job all day long.
Not everyone is anti-Manarat! and we should make distinctions, in such a large school, between girls'/boys' sections, as well as junior and secondary and KG. not to mention they have English medium "international" and Arabic schools. They are all in different buildings and have different standards. |
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Seditious
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Reading that brought back memories of my first year as a teacher. So, an American public school teacher would fit right in there. |
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Asda
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Asda: that FB posting is from May 2008.
There IS a new principal, and he IS changing the school. He is on the job early every morning, greets every teacher, and stays on the job all day long.
Not everyone is anti-Manarat! and we should make distinctions, in such a large school, between girls'/boys' sections, as well as junior and secondary and KG. not to mention they have English medium "international" and Arabic schools. They are all in different buildings and have different standards. |
Yes, but the legacy left behind by the Egyptian former principal, who apparently had no background in education, rather he was a prison guard (would explain A LOT!) AND his Pakistani sidekick (who is still there) will be very hard to shake off!
I was, once upon a time, extremely close to taking an offer with Manarat Riyadh but an offer in Jeddah came along, so I took that instead. Although I'm not 100% happy with my job (who is?), they've been quite good to me, they pay on time and they let you get on with your job. The lack of perks and benefits was known before taking the job, so it pretty much does what it says on the tin.
I am not an enemy of Manarat. My son goes to the Arabic Nursery here in J-Town and I'm very happy with them. However, there is a habit of recruiting teachers, telling them they'll be teaching the IGCSE and AS/A Level groups, only to be told to cover for a primary teacher who bailed out or hasn't arrived yet! Is this common in other schools...? |
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Stephen Jones
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| Telling them they'll be teaching the IGCSE and AS/A Level groups, only to be told to cover for a primary teacher who bailed out or hasn't arrived |
That's what happened to me. When I told the Sphinx I had never taught Primary in a school before he told me it would be good practice for having children. I said I though practice for having children involved other more enjoyable activities.
That said I loved teaching Primary. The kids are old enough to understand what you tell them to do and too young to disobey it. And as I said they were a lovely bunch of kids that tended to spoil as they got older.
That said, it seemed to take a significant turn for the worse in the mid-nineties, and interviewing people who worked there in the early years of this decade it didn't seem to have picked up that much. |
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