There are thousands of bad schools. The problem is systemic, and wide spread from country to country. Do teachers want to waste life on 'taking a collective stand' (that's what you have in mind?) when they might be working a thousand miles away in Argentina, come next year?gavinmac wrote:I understand that the school's director/teacher supervisor is Ivy Marie Acla, a Filipina. It may be Indian owned, I'm not sure.
I'm surprised by the blase attitude that so many posters and other teachers have to this story.
Teaching English is the most common job for an expat in Cambodia. There must be thousands of expat English teachers.
When the police in Cambodia rightly impound a tuk tuk after an accident, word goes out among the tuk tuk drivers and there will be 200 of them protesting outside the police station the next day until the driver gets his tuk tuk back.
Yet here we have a school in Sihanoukville that by all accounts just rips off teachers and takes advantage of Cambodia's lawlessness by hiring teachers and then not paying them for weeks' worth of wages.
And the response from most teachers online is silence or "Those teachers should have known better."
By all means if one has protesting and 'nations unite' as a hobby, then go ahead, enjoy the game. But it works more efficient to vote with one's feet. Walk out and let others know, through social media or specialised TEFL sites, so that the school has difficulty hiring and will run out of business.