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by shawanda
Thu Jun 22, 2023 6:15 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Tuition Paid Out of Pocket
Replies: 22
Views: 92875

Tuition Paid Out of Pocket

As I look to what school I want to work at next, now that I have a three-year-old and a one-year-old, my number one priority is getting them in a high quality school themselves. So much so, I will even be willing to pay tuition out of pocket, since my husband makes enough money to allow us to pay. So, the goal is for me to work in the same school as my sons attend. Of course, ultimately a full fee waiver for both would be lovely, but that's not my priority. So, my question is as follows:

While we are 100% willing and able to pay for a great educational environment for our child now (and children in a few years when the second one is ready to attend - he stays home with dad for now), are there some international schools where the actual "retail price" of attending is far below average but the quality of the school is at the very top? For instance, there are some international schools where tuition is now over 30K, but depending on the region, there are similarly strong if not stronger schools where the tuition tops out in IBDP years in the low 20K range.

From your experience, what are the best schools in each region (Asia, Europe, ME, Africa, Latin America) with the lowest cost of attendance (in US dollars since that's what my husband is paid in) but the best overall educational quality? Thanks!
by shawanda
Sun Nov 07, 2021 11:57 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Vaccination and other issues.
Replies: 54
Views: 169105

Re: Vaccination and other issues.

Oh by the way, Search doesn't even vet the responses the schools give to the question, "As per government regulations, does your school require teachers to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19?" It shouldn't be up to the schools to fill that out. So many schools just lie and assume you are too far away for it to matter that you know they lie. Search could figure this out easily and report it accurately but Search lets schools self-report and there are plenty of schools IN THE SAME COUNTRY that give different answers. Clowns. Great way to discern low down dirty lying school admins vs. the just generally bad ones. It's all a scam. Water does seek its own level.
by shawanda
Sun Oct 31, 2021 10:51 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Vaccination and other issues.
Replies: 54
Views: 169105

Re: Vaccination and other issues.

Reading so many of the responses to my post confirms my view that the vast majority of you are sheeple. Though, I am heartened as I read a few of your responses that there are still a few non-drones in this sample of the educator population. I will also call out two more things:

1. Some of you reflexively assumed that I am anti-vax. LOL. You don't know me or my vaccination status and I will be keeping it that way! That's my point. It's nobody's business but my own! You can be pro-privacy, anti-two-tiered society, and pro-vaccine all at the same time smarties!

2. ThamesPirate, one of the most self-satisfied of all posters for years on here, revealed in her argument what I think is at the heart of the reasoning of many of the proponents' of mandates and mandatory reporting: she wants a leg up in the job market over her un-vaccinated competition. She simply reeks of joy at knowing that she no longer has to compete against the likes of me. Self-interest is a big motivator for her and many other highly insecure and feeble-minded people. So while she calls others selfish and foul names (real classy!), I say it takes one to know one.

While all this madness reveals the real nature of so much of the human race, I am not letting it get me down. Instead I am using it as a real eye-opener that in retrospect was overdue for me. For too long many (myself included) were seduced by the notion that as a species we had markedly become "better" over the last decades. That somehow we had become more progressive, tolerant, kind, and inclusive. This whole episode proves otherwise. Only individual and community smugness and self-righteousness have grown; everything else remains the same. Most of the masses are low down dirty scoundrels just like y'all forefathers before you.
by shawanda
Wed Oct 27, 2021 10:38 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Vaccination and other issues.
Replies: 54
Views: 169105

Re: Vaccination and other issues.

It's very clarifying to know that, for all the talk here, most of the posters on this forum are the same. You're sheep. If you were born in the US in 1820, you would have been all good with slavery because having slaves "is just the right of landowners." If you were born in Germany in 1900, you would have been fine with the Jews being slowly but surely turned into second class citizens and then not citizens at all, because, "it's just the right of private businesses to determine who to let enter," yada, yada, yada.

Lord, I know y'all need to make money, but I didn't know y'all are so craven and cowardly. There is right and wrong, and you are on the wrong side. Should Search add an HIV+ or HIV- yes or no question? What about a TB dropdown menu? And why does it seem those vaccinated are the most scared of the be C-19? Shouldn't the unvaccinated be? Better yet, maybe Search should add a "Morbidly Obese - Yes or No" question or a "Diabetic - Yes or No" question because we all know that such conditions are the largest risk factor of getting very ill with this C-19.

Where does it end once this begins? That's my point. Where the history teachers at? You either don't know your history or you don't care because nobody is coming for you - yet. But, just wait. You let this happen to others, it eventually happens to you. Stand up for what's right. All educators shouldn't be cowards. The way things are going, that's how it will be and I'll just start me my own business before I lower myself to this level.

Sending love to all you - you need it!
by shawanda
Tue Oct 26, 2021 10:01 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Vaccination and other issues.
Replies: 54
Views: 169105

Re: Vaccination and other issues.

The fact that Search is now asking for our vaccination status is grotesque.

Regardless of your vaccination status, we all should be outraged. The irony is that this happens under the guise of them supporting greater diversity and inclusion. International schools are some of the most systemically discriminatory institutions in society!

Search should have demonstrated leadership and told the schools, if you want that information, go get it yourselves. But Search, like so many once venerable institutions, is consumed by cultural rot and greed.

That is all!
by shawanda
Wed Oct 13, 2021 1:10 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: All is quiet
Replies: 12
Views: 20235

All is quiet

Is it just me or is it eerily quiet this October compared to previous recruiting seasons? Why would this be the case?
by shawanda
Tue Sep 08, 2020 5:29 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Thoughts on Search Online Fairs
Replies: 28
Views: 30191

Re: Thoughts on Search Online Fairs

Though I have relatively fond memories (especially compared to the COVID present) from my past Search fairs, I am completely at a loss regarding whether I should sign up for their virtual fair(s) this fall because unlike the old in person fairs, so far at least, the virtual fairs are not posting which schools are planning to attend. And we are only one month before the October virtual fair and no school names are yet appearing on the site. What does this mean? Are they just not going to publish school attendees or are they keeping the list quiet? ISS is listing publicly the names of schools attending their virtual fairs.
by shawanda
Sat Aug 22, 2020 7:40 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: ISS Fairs
Replies: 8
Views: 8728

Re: ISS Fairs

I have the same question because so far there is no clarity on themes for the ISS fairs other than that they are happening and candidates should sign up. I don't see how any of these agencies are doing in person fairs for at least a year, so I would also like more guidance on what will happen with the fairs in January before I make my choice about how to strategize fairs that are coming up in just two+ months. I'd also wonder, what are recruiters (from schools) thinking? Are they aiming to get their recruitment finished sooner this year, or are they waiting as long as possible to see how world events do or don't impact enrollment and resulting staffing needs?
by shawanda
Sun Mar 29, 2020 6:56 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Job Cuts
Replies: 12
Views: 23509

Re: Job Cuts

I hope I am wrong, but from what I gather, many schools are going to be closed for months and use this as an opportunity to completely clean house. Outsource to online/shared platforms for 2020-2021, and then hire all new IF we can come back in 2021-2022. Think about it from the parent perspective: why would I pay for a pricey private/international school for a year if I can just go to the local public option online for a year before things are sorted out? International and private schools getting parents walking away en masse right now from 2020-2021 contracts signed just days/weeks ago.
by shawanda
Wed Mar 11, 2020 11:47 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Job Cuts
Replies: 12
Views: 23509

Job Cuts

I overheard my head say that with us going online for the foreseeable future, it's likely that 20% of staff will be cut between now and July and that some courses may stay online even when we return in an effort to cut costs. I think cost-conscious schools are using this pandemic to radically transform education and some subject teachers are never coming back. Any staffing changes at your school as a result of the Great Panic of 2020?
by shawanda
Thu Feb 13, 2020 11:05 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Who'd You Rather?
Replies: 5
Views: 15552

Who'd You Rather?

If you are a recruiter, and considering both current events and the appalling lack of diversity in staffing at many international schools worldwide, who'd you rather hire (in order of preference) to fill your remaining open positions for the 2020-2021 school year?

a) a single educator of color (trendy, yet to my ears, regressive way of saying "a black or brown person")
b) an educator with a trailing spouse and two school-aged dependents
c) an educator currently based in China (thus possibly in close contact to COVID-19)
d) an accomplished 20-year independent school (US) educator with no certificate/teacher's license
e) a current school administrator looking to get back into the classroom or take on reduced responsibilities
by shawanda
Tue Feb 11, 2020 5:45 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Search, China, and Reneging
Replies: 18
Views: 33470

Re: Search, China, and Reneging

funteacher, what do you teach? How do you know COVID-19 will be gone in a few months? You are operating on a normalcy bias. I know about that, because I am actually educated, not indoctrinated. Maybe COVID-19 will disappear in a few months, but maybe it will be worse than ever and killing thousands a day around the world.

I never would have seriously entertained China before all of this because I need better air quality. Now, I can't imagine any sane international teacher opting for China. Search and so many other education-related organizations have come to depend on China, though. They want us to buy into maintaining China as a normal and reasonable option. I want to maintain my life far more than buy into such propaganda that was always dubious but now seems outright mad.
by shawanda
Mon Feb 03, 2020 10:22 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Situation in China
Replies: 37
Views: 81904

Re: Situation in China

I would not touch China with a ten mile pole!
by shawanda
Mon Feb 03, 2020 10:21 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Search, China, and Reneging
Replies: 18
Views: 33470

Re: Search, China, and Reneging

Here you are more worried about Search's view of you than your life?! Who cares what Search thinks? Pull out of China today.
by shawanda
Tue Dec 24, 2019 2:14 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Pet peeve of mine
Replies: 14
Views: 24050

Re: Pet peeve of mine

PG,

Spare me. Honesty is always the best policy in a process like this. A joyous Christmas to you!