Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2020 12:52 pm

lostjeremy wrote:
Tuition is https://westview.edu.kh/tuition-fee/

Was accomodation provided? That's a decent salary, albeit a bit less than ISPP. As you say, free school for kids and completion bonus make it more than enough for a family. Yeah, it's a new school so nothing to go off of (nada on ISR or Glassdoor). Sometimes it's worth taking the plunge, though I would have assumed they would have paid for your flight from Brazil. I still feel like two weeks isn't long enough to know if you'll like it or not. Maybe you should have given it a month or two before making a final decision and at least recouping some money. Then again, I've had jobs where I knew very quickly I wanted out, so maybe it's not entirely fair. Job aside, it seems like you guys had trouble adapting to Cambodia in the little time you were here. Most international school teachers love the lifestyle it can afford them, so not sure what you're on about hookers by the Riverside and all that. I do feel one should always visit a country before working there. Those who do rarely have a bad experience. Granted, Brazil is far, but I would have chosen a different location had I been you (a country I'd visited and enjoyed, this wanting to know more and live there).

BrazilBoy wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2020 1:12 pm

Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2020 12:52 pm

lostjeremy wrote:
Tuition is https://westview.edu.kh/tuition-fee/

Was accomodation provided? That's a decent salary, albeit a bit less than ISPP. As you say, free school for kids and completion bonus make it more than enough for a family. Yeah, it's a new school so nothing to go off of (nada on ISR or Glassdoor). Sometimes it's worth taking the plunge, though I would have assumed they would have paid for your flight from Brazil. I still feel like two weeks isn't long enough to know if you'll like it or not. Maybe you should have given it a month or two before making a final decision and at least recouping some money. Then again, I've had jobs where I knew very quickly I wanted out, so maybe it's not entirely fair. Job aside, it seems like you guys had trouble adapting to Cambodia in the little time you were here. Most international school teachers love the lifestyle it can afford them, so not sure what you're on about hookers by the Riverside and all that. I do feel one should always visit a country before working there. Those who do rarely have a bad experience. Granted, Brazil is far, but I would have chosen a different location had I been you (a country I'd visited and enjoyed, this wanting to know more and live there).

Accommodation was not provided nor help with relocation. The broker they sent to greet us at the airport showed us places starting at $800 per month. He eventually found us a small 2 BR for $500 per month.

I honestly knew the instant I saw the Westview campus that it wasn’t going to work. Schools should be in some kind of nice setting: country nice or city nice but attractive and well just nice. This campus is on a dusty, busy road in a light industrial area of TK. It’s ugly and dangerous and has no redeeming quality except maybe it’s cheap. It’s an ugly place to go to school without anything soulful.

Most of the teachers are not certified and some don’t have a degree. It doesn’t even pretend to be an IB school. Elementary uses Ontario standards and high school uses Common Core standards.

It’s their own personal brew of Canadian and American standards that some dumdass Aussie created as quickly as possible so he could go troll whores on the Riverside like a proper expat that settles on a city in Cambodia. That’s what I mean about Riverside: many, if not most, of the teachers that I met engaged the services of Riverside whores.

Freightdog wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2020 3:49 pm Speaking of due diligence, how much was actually done by yourself prior to arriving in Cambodia on your mission to be a better teacher than they obviously deserve?
Some of your early posts demonstrated a little naïveté in regards what to expect. No big surprise; there’s a lot about the country that is just wrong. But bearing in mind that it wasn’t so long ago that the country was in complete turmoil, there are some areas of its current culture and civilization that would definitely have room for improvement.

Now, after 2 months of teaching here- there’s plenty of threads on the subject of how bad the teaching standards are- you’ve simply fallen into that class of western teacher that adds to the problem. You’ve given up. You were looking for a job, rather than a vocation.

There was a thread recently about someone’s Chinese wife who was having difficulty treating Khmer with any respect. Now after 2 months, you’ve seen the immense (maybe to you the insurmountable) challenge of being here. Why not just graciously bow out, say ‘sayonara. Sorry, it’s just not for me/us’.

Thank god you’re back in China. Shall we expect a postcard?

Kammekor wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2020 4:12 pm Man, Chinese propaganda has hit you hard BB.