Now this is a great judge of how a school treats their staff, well this school has lost 4 teachers in the space of 5 months. These teachers haven't been sacked or asked to leave NO they all left on their on terms.
So this makes me wonder how long the new staff will hang around and what creative lies the management can come up with to cover this up.
This a McSchool. They run their school just like a McDonald. There is no interest in keeping quality experienced teachers. They are only interested in paying there teachers as little as possible. Working there you will notice there are no old teachers. They all move on a soon as they can.
ReplyDeleteIn a span of about 4 years the English program has gone through about 15 different foreign teachers. None of which have nice things to say about the jobs they left.
Think it is only the "mis-behaving" foreigners leaving. I was personally informed by a Thai member of staff who had worked there a long time by this schools standards(5 years) and who had also been fired and re-hired on 3 separate occasions, that this school loses at-least 40 teachers a year. My estimate is that this means they lose at-least 20% of their staff every year.
Most the staff I met weren't even asking for a lot. Asking to be paid what you were promised and to be treated with minimal respect felt like you were asking them to move the moon.
I think you are being unfair on McDonalds here :) At McDonalds the staff do get benefits (bonus, pay raise, medical etc..) and they get paid what they are due.
ReplyDeleteYou're probably right. McDonald's customers also get what they pay for. For example, they order a cheese burger (qualified native English teacher) and they expect a cheese burger but at Tantiwatra they get an expired fish sandwich ( Thai teacher who can't speak English and touches students a little too much).
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