Good points are made by everyone who responded.

I'm thinking it's time to develop a more objective resource that is free for all up on the Internet. If only there were more time. Do you think schools would willingly and honestly submit pertinent information such as pay scales, benefits, tax burden, standardized test scores, etc? I hear the prep schools in the U.S. do this.

Do you think schools would allow their staff to be polled so that the numbers in the chart would represent the mean response?

Would be an interesting, time consuming project.
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I like the idea of ISR, let's start off with that. BUT recently my school was anonymously flamed by a departing teacher - I guess as a parting shot. The things written are not representative of the school or the attitudes of other staff. My concern is that this could drive good potential recruits away, and we all want good teachers at our schools.

So it got me thinking - how could the whole rating system be modified to improve validity. Of course a similarly deceptive result could be achieved through one great review for a poor school. This is also undesirable.

A lot of the information people are looking for is objective: salary, savings potential, number of local hire vs foreign staff, etc. These could be collected in a much more comprehensive manner than the current anecdotal form. If schools cooperated then some real data could be gathered on teacher satisfaction.

By the way, I'm all for transparency - my school is Nido de Aguilas in Chile. It's a good school. I teach high school math.

Also - I'm an open-source guy, I believe in free access to information. Only teachers looking for new schools pay their 30 clams for this site and they tend to be less satisfied with their school. Open it up for everyone!