Well, this is REAL proof that Sandy Mac is losing his marbles day by day. I mean, I almost forgot to post my annual warning about working on Summer Schools! I've written more blog-postings about this particularly nasty type of bonded labour than any other subject, I guess, so it should be at least be a little bit uppermost in my mind.Anyway, here it goes for 2011. Just click on the link here and you can discover the indiluted truth about slaving your guts out for peanuts while having to endure the most odious types of rich-kid students and semi-alcoholic 'colleagues' (as per above) that you could possibly imagine. I have no wish to crow and repeat the awful cliche of "you have been warned", but ... I'm just pointing it out!
BTW, those idiots amongst you who choose to ignore my sound advice should have some excellent stories to tell come late August. So please do pass your depraved accounts this way.
And if there are any other (over-)seasoned Teflers out there with similar stories of hellish summer schools, I'd be very grateful if you could let me have them too. It's not that I'm hard-up for material, but I do feel that a few fresh tales of Summer School despair and despondency would help to persuade the as-yet undecided to avoid a humiliating fate.
6 comments:
summer school no good? I go work teach there in july, english teacher. you make me worry. is all bad?
Feeling very smug about summer school meself. Just picked up 34 hours a week at £24.53/hr. No evenings or weekends. State subsidised local pseudo Uni of course, so loads of paperwork to throw in the bin, but 3 grand a month net for doing sod all . . .can't be that bad.
i wouldn't be too smug. you're still a tefl teacher.
Please don't remind me.
You can never escape those Tefl ties. Even when/if you get a real job, Tefl will stick to you ... like shit to a blanket.
Dear Sandy,
Here's one for you. Two years ago I did a TEFL summer school at a certain International Baccalaureate college on the Banbury Road in Oxford. One of the other teachers got heinously drunk on the Sunday before the course and decided to take a piss off the balcony of his room in the accommodation block (shared between students and teachers), narrowly missing sprinkling an Arab student who had just arrived at that moment.
Unsurprisingly he didn't show up for work the next day and it turned out he'd got right back on the plane to Bulgaria....
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