Warning!!!! Like anything I write, this is NOT to be taken as 100% factual.
Sorry to be only updating you all on the past, namely the Indonesian adventure. Let me fast forward to the present, because it’s become immensely dramatic.
Jen and I (and the rest of the faculty and staff and International School of Manila) are on strike. Here’s the quick and highly biased highlights.*
The Board of Trustees has pulled a lot of douche bag moves. They got themselves elected last year in a questionable and dodgy process of absentee balloting. They’ve been micromanaging the school ever since. The principals of elementary, middle, and high school sent a public letter to the board that could be summarized as follows: “You’re a bunch of douche bags; we refuse to work with you.” The board thought about this, and then sacked the superintendent. They escorted him out of the building, past students, surrounded by armed security. **
Most of us faculty and staff were hired to our nice jobs by the super and principals, so we asked the Board to show up at a “What-the-Fuck-is-Going-On Meeting.” The board did not show up.
So we did not show up at school today. Fortunately, several hundred parents did show up to sign petitions calling for resignation of the board. Hopefully strike will end soon when resignations occur. So far, 3 of the 10 Board members have resigned.
* these highlights are not meant to be entirely taken as fact, but close enough for those of you who will never have any dealings with international education
** Almost all security is armed at international schools, this is not abnormal.
2 comments:
I hope you all got to yell "Hell no, we won't go! Hell no, we won't go!..." I've always wanted to shout that at the top of my lungs with a bunch of angry people.
...word of advice, it may be time to run when they unleash the dogs and roll in the tanks...
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