Dear All,

Time for me to break the silence. I am one of the teachers who was recently fired from Emirates National School. Although technically I wasn't really 'fired'. I was just called in for a meeting with the principal one day and was told to 'Go home'.

Nice, huh? Yes, it was just like that.

So,what did I do wrong? I stuck up for myself and on behalf of the rest of the staff at a time when we were again being harassed, reprimanded, criticised, belittled and bad mouthed by the director.

Everyone had had enough of the bullying and threats of punishment, but I was one of the few who spoke up. I merely wanted to point out our views as a staff, and my colleagues believed I did so in a fair and professional manner.

I was the first to go after that, and from the sounds of it it more people left and/or were told to 'go home' after I did.

Take my advice and the advice of most of the other people who have added comments to this forum: DO NOT accept a job with this school. The staff is treated appallingly, the morale there is the lowest of the low, and the director has no problem replacing any teacher on a whim if you have so much as an ounce of respect for yourself to suggest to him that you want to be treated justly.

This school's practices are so unethical that it would most certainly have been closed down in North America / UK as quickly as it opened.

As a final note, be aware that there is NO IB programme and no official IB training. The school depends on teacher experience to try to set up a PYP/MYP-like environment but it is all make-believe. ENS simply pays its dues to the IB so that they can state that they are on the 'IB candidate list' and that's as far as it goes. It's all for show.

No, it's not worth it. Trust me and LOOK ELSEWHERE FOR A JOB!