Difficult to know where to start!
Difficult to know where to start!
As a fairly new teacher, I'm wondering if this is normal or not.
1. Three Principals in less than six months.
2. Kuwaiti owners who have offices in the building but never speak to teachers, and from what I've heard, sneer or act as if teachers are beneath them if they are in the same room.
3. Interviews with the owners while the owner is joking and laughing with another member of staff (out of camera) at the same time.
4. Staff fired because they asked the assistant to assist.
5. No Curriculum Coordinator. Then a Curriculum Coordinator who demands everyone drops everything to do the work that should've been done in the first three months of school.
6. The teachers paying for: the bus transport to school; stationary for teaching; printing for teaching; visas; document attestation.
7. Changing the contract that teachers signed up for with a different contract; while claiming teachers must sign this contract to open a bank account - knowing it's not possible without a work permit, salary slip and residency permit.
8. Staff being paid below the Kuwaiti minimum wage.
9. HR telling female teachers they smell and if they get pregnant they're fired.
10. Paying someone less to do more work.
11. Every day lying to the students and parents. Pretending teachers can contact parents whilst not allowing them to.
12. Hiring non-qualified teachers.
13. Physical abuse and assault of Grade 8 male students.
14. Threats when people are off sick.
15. Refusal to pay when you are fired or resign because nobody wants to go to Kuwait and they can't get enough teachers.
16. Not one teacher enjoys working there.
17. Nothing but negativity from management. Failure to understand how to manage and train staff.
18. Lies. Lies. Lies.
Do not get a residency visa! They will keep you as a slave and continue the above for entertainment.