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soapdodger

Joined: 19 Apr 2007 Posts: 203
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Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 2:06 pm Post subject: The most moronic administrators |
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I think some forgotten stars of EFL are the complete and utter boneheads who, unfit to even run a tap, try, and usually fail, to run language schools. Perhaps this problem is only endemic in the part of the world I've been in for some while, but I very much doubt it. It would be interesting to hear some horror stories about truly incompetent administrators.
Personally, having run quite a large , busy language school, doing everything; timetabling, client liaison, hiring and firing etc. I am aware that while it is time-consuming, it does not require the brains of a genius to get right, and I tend to get rather peeved when people who should know better make appalling mistakes that often cost me time and money.
I have had schools who get the names of important clients confused, even though there is no similarity at all, been sent to addresses where the client doesn't exist, been timetabled to go to a second lesson at a timethat the only way to arrive promptly from the previous one would be by jet-pack. That is to say nothing of having to haggle almost monthly about what is due to me, hearing out and out lies from people trying to cover up their own gross incompetence...I could go on and on, but I'm sure other people have some funny ones...... |
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Jetgirly

Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 741
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Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 5:03 am Post subject: |
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I teach in a private high school in Mexico. The school has about ten million priorities above education, and they also happen to be disorganized and, dare I say it, incompetent.
- After three months there is still no payday schedule and they literally count out our pay, in cash, IN FRONT OF OUR STUDENTS, whenever they feel like it
- When teachers are home sick, nobody tells the students and substitute teachers are not sent to cover the lessons
- Students are double-booked- they have two classes, both weighted equally on their report cards, at the same time
- At the beginning of the semester the entire school had to watch a fifty-minute video showing teachers heads superimposed on celebrity bodies
- I made four appointments with administration for my students with what I believe to be undiagnosed behavioral disabilities, and the administrators never showed up. I made the appointments in person, with the administrators! There were no mixed signals! They just don't care!
- I was given the textbooks for my class (there isn't a curriculum per se, it's just Follow the Textbook) and told to plan out every lesson for the entire semester. I did the plan and submitted it to admin, then I showed up for class on the first day and found out that the students had a different textbook on their list, and they'd already bought them... turns out, I'd been given the books for the wrong class
- They owe me $350 (as my contract included half-airfare payable in April)... only five days late at the moment, but we'll see if/when I actually get it.
Then, there are a billion other things related to the choices they make in terms of how they deal with students (basically, students get whatever they want) and teachers (basically, they tell us what we want to hear then sit in their offices eating potato chips without actually acting on what they've promised). |
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