What happened at southbridge?
mutually assured destruction. or just being a professional educator and honoring a contract to ensure students stay at the center of things. whether you are a teacher or in leadership, that's the accepted practice. it's fine to move from school to school, it's how it is done that shows your values.
dwayne and SISC certainly the first to do it at scale in phnom penh in recent years at the very least.
head hunting is a thing in education, just not like that.
dwayne and SISC certainly the first to do it at scale in phnom penh in recent years at the very least.
head hunting is a thing in education, just not like that.
I can't imagine that there would be much talent at Footprints to head-hunt?
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Yeah really.guest44 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 08, 2021 3:34 pmI can't imagine that there would be much talent at Footprints to head-hunt?
Just a bunch of Filipinos with bullshit degrees and horrific accents.
Actually, not that different from the majority of brits and saffers that rock up here to do the tefl jobber circuit.
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Cne clearly say they aren't naming the school.
https://cne.wtf/2021/07/08/unfair-irres ... id-policy/
But Leadership decisions eerily similar to Dwayne and his best friend at southbridge...
https://cne.wtf/2021/07/08/unfair-irres ... id-policy/
But Leadership decisions eerily similar to Dwayne and his best friend at southbridge...
No real updates.
The thing that is sad about this news is that Cambodia desperately needs affordable, high-quality educational options. I really feel bad about the parents and students that have to go to Southbridge because it’s the closest or most affordable school next to their homes. The stakeholders deserve better.
I don’t know anything about principal number 6, Mr. Lameman. Frankly, he was finished before he started. The thing that fills me with schadenfreude and laughter is the way that all of “The Group’s” molting chickens have come home to roost. The situation at SISC is what happens when you put people with no moral compass or ethical bearing in charge of an operation that centers on having some respect for humanity, some love of learning. The group has a lot more negative karma coming their way, and I would not recommend any teacher to work at the school, or any parent to enroll their child there. An administrator who would take a job at SISC is asking for their career and mental health to be badly blemished.
How could things get so bad you might ask? Well, it all boils down to ownership and management. Never send carpenters and estate agents to do educators’ jobs. SISC is simply a means to the ends of pumping up rent prices and land values. “The Group” does not care a bit about education and self-improvement, they are just a bunch of glorified landlords and car salesmen. Having schools on their land is just about asking for more money for the houses in their boreys.
You would think that after their sixth collapse they would come to the conclusion that maybe it’s something fundamental in their organizational culture, but no, it’s gotta’ be the crazy principals’ or teachers’ faults.
I have been watching things unfold at Southbridge since its early days, five or six years ago. And it has been nothing but an extended dumpster fire. Every iteration they hire principals and directors and expect them to perform alchemy on an ill-funded organization. What makes me really crack up is that the “CEOs” of the group think that they are so wise in the ways of education and human resource management, yet all they have to show is failure, after failure, after failure. No matter, their kids get to go to the “good school” and everyone else can fight it out on the other side of the river. They think that if they just crack down and use the fundamentals of Theory X Management, they will produce great results and build their real estate empire across Cambodia. At the end of the day, the landlords think that they can run a good school on the cheap--just slop some teachers in a room and Bob’s your uncle. You can imagine the strategy meeting, “We’ll do it up just as good as Northbridge boss, but for ¼ the price.” Ha. Actually, the vision is even less evolved. The business plan is more, “How can we build the flimsiest, gumboot operation of a school, which will hold together just long enough that we inflate the prices of the link houses in the borey.” “Let’s see if we can find some other sucker like Nordanglia to run it for us.”
In a less-connected world, you might be able to bootstrap a school like this together, but the times have changed boys. Newsflash Mr. Dipskins: IF. YOU. WANT. QUALITY. TEACHERS. YOU. HAVE. TO. PAY. FOR. THEM. This payment includes health care, visa fees, and work permits. You can’t just threaten, bully, and strong-arm a school into existence. Or wait, no, don’t take my advice. Keep running the school the way you have been running it because it provides the community with endless hours of entertainment. The shame is that so many innocents are hurt in the process.
The only thing that is keeping “The Golden Group” from ruining Northbridge School is that they have rented out the physical space of the campus to a completely separate entity Nordanglia--which has its own host of McProblems, but that’s a whole other post. “The Group” still tries to run Nordanglia into the ground by nickel and diming them. Imagine that you are paying over $20K a year for tuition, but your kids are sent home from school multiple days because there is no electricity due to the fact, “The generators weren’t part of the deal Nordanglia.” Now that students are home, this is not happening specifically, but it’s just one example of the existing ethos.
The only reason why “The Group” has had any success in the past is because they operate monopolies and they have never had to manage anything skillfully or truly compete in a free market.
At this point, the only hope for SISC would be to pull the name off the school, hire a real management company, and completely rebrand the operation. Fair dinkum? Fair dinkum. The community will be watching.
The thing that is sad about this news is that Cambodia desperately needs affordable, high-quality educational options. I really feel bad about the parents and students that have to go to Southbridge because it’s the closest or most affordable school next to their homes. The stakeholders deserve better.
I don’t know anything about principal number 6, Mr. Lameman. Frankly, he was finished before he started. The thing that fills me with schadenfreude and laughter is the way that all of “The Group’s” molting chickens have come home to roost. The situation at SISC is what happens when you put people with no moral compass or ethical bearing in charge of an operation that centers on having some respect for humanity, some love of learning. The group has a lot more negative karma coming their way, and I would not recommend any teacher to work at the school, or any parent to enroll their child there. An administrator who would take a job at SISC is asking for their career and mental health to be badly blemished.
How could things get so bad you might ask? Well, it all boils down to ownership and management. Never send carpenters and estate agents to do educators’ jobs. SISC is simply a means to the ends of pumping up rent prices and land values. “The Group” does not care a bit about education and self-improvement, they are just a bunch of glorified landlords and car salesmen. Having schools on their land is just about asking for more money for the houses in their boreys.
You would think that after their sixth collapse they would come to the conclusion that maybe it’s something fundamental in their organizational culture, but no, it’s gotta’ be the crazy principals’ or teachers’ faults.
I have been watching things unfold at Southbridge since its early days, five or six years ago. And it has been nothing but an extended dumpster fire. Every iteration they hire principals and directors and expect them to perform alchemy on an ill-funded organization. What makes me really crack up is that the “CEOs” of the group think that they are so wise in the ways of education and human resource management, yet all they have to show is failure, after failure, after failure. No matter, their kids get to go to the “good school” and everyone else can fight it out on the other side of the river. They think that if they just crack down and use the fundamentals of Theory X Management, they will produce great results and build their real estate empire across Cambodia. At the end of the day, the landlords think that they can run a good school on the cheap--just slop some teachers in a room and Bob’s your uncle. You can imagine the strategy meeting, “We’ll do it up just as good as Northbridge boss, but for ¼ the price.” Ha. Actually, the vision is even less evolved. The business plan is more, “How can we build the flimsiest, gumboot operation of a school, which will hold together just long enough that we inflate the prices of the link houses in the borey.” “Let’s see if we can find some other sucker like Nordanglia to run it for us.”
In a less-connected world, you might be able to bootstrap a school like this together, but the times have changed boys. Newsflash Mr. Dipskins: IF. YOU. WANT. QUALITY. TEACHERS. YOU. HAVE. TO. PAY. FOR. THEM. This payment includes health care, visa fees, and work permits. You can’t just threaten, bully, and strong-arm a school into existence. Or wait, no, don’t take my advice. Keep running the school the way you have been running it because it provides the community with endless hours of entertainment. The shame is that so many innocents are hurt in the process.
The only thing that is keeping “The Golden Group” from ruining Northbridge School is that they have rented out the physical space of the campus to a completely separate entity Nordanglia--which has its own host of McProblems, but that’s a whole other post. “The Group” still tries to run Nordanglia into the ground by nickel and diming them. Imagine that you are paying over $20K a year for tuition, but your kids are sent home from school multiple days because there is no electricity due to the fact, “The generators weren’t part of the deal Nordanglia.” Now that students are home, this is not happening specifically, but it’s just one example of the existing ethos.
The only reason why “The Group” has had any success in the past is because they operate monopolies and they have never had to manage anything skillfully or truly compete in a free market.
At this point, the only hope for SISC would be to pull the name off the school, hire a real management company, and completely rebrand the operation. Fair dinkum? Fair dinkum. The community will be watching.
'is what happens when you put people with no moral compass or ethical bearing in charge of an operation that centers on having some respect for humanity'
Which school, municipality or government that you know of does NOT do this?
Which school, municipality or government that you know of does NOT do this?
Well this Head of School really appears to have really made some enemies along his way. No doubt his boyfriend who follows him everywhere has not helped the situation. I wonder how long he will hang on, any self-respecting individual would have resigned by now. I suppose its up to the school owners to do that now.
This is all very disturbing to hear.
It is shocking that such a well known and reliable organization, such as Royal Group, should be subject to scandalous activities of a few bad apples.
I am very confident that the top management of this conglomerate will get round to righting the ship and there is little point in the people of this forum worrying about such things.
In fact, the helmsmen of this great company should not care one jot about what the little people think.
I am very confident that the top management of this conglomerate will get round to righting the ship and there is little point in the people of this forum worrying about such things.
In fact, the helmsmen of this great company should not care one jot about what the little people think.
You have a gift for sarcasm!Guest wrote: ↑Mon Jul 19, 2021 3:22 pmI am very confident that the top management of this conglomerate will get round to righting the ship and there is little point in the people of this forum worrying about such things.
Trust me, as a former employee/victim of Mr. Lehman... those reviews were very accurate. I'm only surprised there aren't any recent posts regarding his time in Cambodia and Thailand. Without going into the details, he is highly unqualified, very petty, and embarrassingly vindictive. The only way to (maybe) survive at a school he is in charge of is to put blinders on and keep your head down.
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