if you are an American make sure you have your 40 credits for social security and more importantly medicare. sign up online and check those credits!!

Moved to Distance learning....

And are letting the teachers go back to their home countries with no penalties.

Which schools have officially closed for the remainder of the year due to Covid 19?

Here is my unofficial list:
AES Delhi
JIS. Jakarta
AAS Moscow
All the UAE schools

Now which schools are letting people go home and teach from their host countries??

Heck ask your admin about their year end bonuses.... They don't tell that to us peon teachers!!

Which international school will be the first to go tech free??

With all the tech warnings from 60 minutes to the NYTimes to the Waldorf school in Silicon Valley it seems almost inevitable??

Any guesses??

Get out of the meetings and get in the hall!!!!!

My last couple principals have been AWOL!!

For an international perspective:

https://www.theatlantic.com/internation ... /529479/--
....... it’s worrisome to see Trump applying his transactionalist approach so breezily. Without partnerships, U.S. counterterrorism policy suffers. Without partners, U.S. foreign policy flounders.

For a personal perspective, many teachers spent thousands of extra dollars changing flights to get home for summer. And many people are worried about the future of Qatar.

Not really connected... and yes Trumps tweets have caused a lot of people a lot of problems here in Qatar.

Yes, actually!

There are 180,000 Egyptians working here in very important white collar jobs.

Many Saudi's travel here for holidays.

Plus many of my students parents are Qataris married to people from Saudi, Bahrain and the UAE.

So thanks Trump your Tweets are messing up the world!

Ramadan is moving the other way.... it will be mid- May next year NOT mid June.

I have never had any debt... I just don't want to mess with a Qatar Bank.

Here is the credit card problem.

Before you leave you must go to your bank 45 days before your exit. Then you need to go back 3 days before you go. During Ramadan the bank is open from 9pm until midnight. (And it is busy!) If you have any debt you can't go home.... why risk it??

"Real" schools will do this for you. I have been here many years and the best schools will get your RP ( residential permit) for you and your family. Also DO NOT get a Qatar credit card only get a debt card!

Buy the Dubai Entertainer book. 2 for 1 tickets at Atlantis pays for the book and the saving on restaurants adds up.

American School of Doha.

New teacher compound. Pool: chiller in the summer, heater in the winter. 2 tennis courts, 1 b-ball court. Squash court. Restaurant. workout room. billiards room, shop. And buses to school! Villas for couples, apartments for singles.

Dredge is right on the money!

Throw in the local teachers and you will know your place in these schools.

If you don't have your own kids in the system and like to leave school at 3:30, it can be a very nice life!!