Hi,

I truly appreciate all of your advice and feed-back. Many friends have told us to "move on" and it definitely would have been the easy thing to do but it did not seem like the right thing to do.

I am afraid our chances of teaching overseas as you can imagine are extremely small. We realized this when we decided to speak out. Also in no way are we perfect but we have tried to be completely honest from the beginning. Unfortunately, this does not seem to be the way the school is choosing to handle the situation. In regard to the latest post in the review section it is full of innacuracies, misrepresentations and flat out lies. It unfortunately does not adress the issues but instead defames. I hope you reserve judgement until you read my response.

There are different perspectives on a situation but there are also facts.
- my wife was offered a promotion and given a 6% raise
- she was viciously berated by the director
- she was locked out after filing a complaint against the director
- I was threatened with termination if my wife didn't resign quietly
- our children were draged into the situation on three seperate occassions
- the school has resorted to distorations and misrepresentations to attack our characters

Thank you once again,

Michael

Hi Everyone!

My name is Michael Infante and perhaps you have read about our problems with the American School Foundation in Mexico City. In brief, my wife was harassed, I was threatened with dismissal if my wife didn’t “quietly� resign, we were locked out of school and lastly, I was prevented from going to check on my four and five year old daughters in their classrooms.

Unfortunately, the treatment we have suffered is not an isolated instance at the American School. Currently there are 15 suits against the school for illegal labor practices, as well as three criminal cases. Nine cases have previously been settled

I am speaking out because I believe no one should have to suffer what we have gone through and so that potential teaching candidates have all the information they need to make an objective decision.

Last weekend, I attended the UNI overseas job fair in Iowa. I was able to meet with many people and I believe in the interest of public discourse, things went well. I offered to meet with representatives from the school and the fair to talk honestly about the issues but unfortunately no meeting was arranged.

This weekend, I am heading to Kingston, Canada for the Queen’s University Fair. I will be the guy in the yellow parka. I hope it is not as cold as it was in Iowa last week. I froze. So come say hi and if you know of anyone that is considering a job offer from the American School tell them to come and talk to me. I’d be happy to talk to them.

Take care,

Michael

P.S. You can read our whole story at a web-site I have created. You can get there from the section on ASF on ISR or from this link www.bellagrace.org/index.html