Ignore teachers' requirements at your peril. Our daughter is one of many who have left New Zealand to teach overseas, having burnt out in the present system.
The main attraction was that she now can "have a life" with her family. Meetings and preparation are timetabled into the school day.
Other factors were a higher salary, no tax, free accommodation and a trip back home for the family annually.
Kids in the United Arab Emirates are brought up to expect consequences for bad behaviour, and there's no necessity before you even start teaching your class, to deal with kids who have personality issues as a result of their mothers having consumed liquor or drugs while the foetus was developing.
She doesn't get too home-sick as there are so many Kiwis and Australians over there also.
If we don't help our teachers, we will continue to lose them. Replacements have to be enthused enough to enter the profession, and that's unlikely.
Lyn & Paul Marston
Welcome Bay
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