Here is a quotation from a posting (not written by me!) on another thread.
"The school also has a high number of teachers, whose mother tongue is not English,the largest group being South African,many of whom speak with thick Afrikans accents...they are there because they are cheap to employ."
I have some excellent South African colleagues, so I found this posting very unfair and unkind. On another thread about Newton International School, you can also read complaints from parents about there being too many Australian and Kiwi teachers at the school. Therefore I cannot understand why you claim that my comments are "rubbish".
My posting entitled "Unfair and Unreasonable Parents" raised a number of issues. The recruiting and retaining staff (with or without posh English accents) is just one of the problems faced by school principals in Doha. The fact that most of the subsequent postings have been about the "accent issue" just shows how most parents do not want to think about other issues.
Dear MattHardingLower,
Here is a quotation from a posting (not written by me!) on another thread.
"The school also has a high number of teachers, whose mother tongue is not English,the largest group being South African,many of whom speak with thick Afrikans accents...they are there because they are cheap to employ."
I have some excellent South African colleagues, so I found this posting very unfair and unkind. On another thread about Newton International School, you can also read complaints from parents about there being too many Australian and Kiwi teachers at the school. Therefore I cannot understand why you claim that my comments are "rubbish".
My posting entitled "Unfair and Unreasonable Parents" raised a number of issues. The recruiting and retaining staff (with or without posh English accents) is just one of the problems faced by school principals in Doha. The fact that most of the subsequent postings have been about the "accent issue" just shows how most parents do not want to think about other issues.