guatetaliana
Joined: 20 Feb 2008
Posts: 112
Location: Monterrey, Nuevo Le�n, Mexico
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 Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 7:35 am Post subject: |
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| notamiss wrote: |
| There exists a vast pool of private schools that are beneath the radar of foreign English teachers. These schools have minimal or more likely no websites, they don't recruit internationally, they don't have expat students (thus the expat community doesn't know them) and they likely don't pay enough to attract foreign teachers. I'd guess that the problems described in this thread are much less or non-existent in thise schools, at least that was my experience as a parent at one such school. |
I am working for such a school. I showed up in Mexico with my husband, hit the ground looking for jobs in the area we wanted to live, and it just happened that there was an opening at this private school. I'm one of only two foreigners - the other is the French teacher, who got hired the same week as me, and who also is in a similar situation as I am, having just arrived from France after marrying her Mexican husband. As foreigners, we are considered an anomaly at this school! The school actually has no clue how to secure FM3s, and won't work with us on getting them. Anyway, the pay is actually decent, the parents are extremely demanding, and the kids are certainly obnoxious.
I kind of accepted this position assuming what you said is true. I figured since it wasn't one of the biggest, most high-profile schools in the city, parents, students, and administrators were more likely to be down-to-Earth.
Boy was I wrong. 
I'm still not sure how I could have avoided getting a bad position like this, as I was outright lied to in the interview regarding my questions about behavior, expectations of teachers, expectations of students, etc.
I guess it's just a matter of time and experience till we build that kind of sense? |
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