to the person who just started a new job at ENS al ain last week and already wants out (see recent school review posted):

when i was there a teacher did a runner in the first term and i spent the rest of the year wishing id done the same myself! the place is a total disgrace and it only gets worse. i sympathize with you. if you get a chance to get out now - DO. if you speak up for yourslef, chances are theyll make some story up later in the year (like . . . hmm . . . oh! you have the worng colour underwear on today) to get rid of you anyway.

hey, i was there during some of the teacher disapearances and i can tell you that the ones that affected us weren't even announced to us!!! suddenly we realised there was no art or whatever teacher but no one told us where or why teh teacher had gone. say what you want but in my experience this is not normal. teachers come and go at that school like its an outpatient clinic!!! never seen anything like it!!! i was also there when the bus accident happened and no one came round my school to collect money. no, they did not. we didnt get any envelope to contribute any money or sign a card or anything. the kids were not told and the parents were not told. actually, we were just told to keep the whole thing quiet!!! think it might be because of the first bus accident not too long before? don't want to scare the fee-paying parents off???? hmmmm, i also never received this so called email about leaving after a year. maybe i was just in with the wrong group of teachers?? hey AD2006, you sound like you have a lot more invested in ENS than most of us teachers on here did. sounds like comments from someon who's either worried about their own job because you have nowhere else to go, or you yourself are having trouble recruiting new teachers!!! do you really think that your 'fluffy' comments (see the reviews) compared to the reality of what we all lived through are going to fool people into thinking that we're making it all up and everything is actually rosy-fine at ENS? or are you just so blind not to see it yourself? or do you CHOOSE to ignore it because youre more involved in the upper echelons than most of us were and cant give up the power that goes with being a big fish in the small ENS pond???? either way, i smell a rat in our midst .........

dont usually have time for discussion boards but saw this forum and had to go for it. i'm another teacher who got suckered into this umm ... school you call it? luckily got hired late so had less than a year there but one day would have been enough!!! the place is disgraceful x 100!!! saw some shocking behaviour on the part of admin / management. many teachers being treated like foolish delinquent high school students. some teachers even living in constant fear of losing their jobs for something as minute as talking to a parent alone (not allowed!?!). lots of stuff that would be illegal anywhere else they get away with there, like firing teachers on the spot for totally made-up reasons. never saw so many replacement teachers arrive at one school over the course of one year! all experienced teachers who i met there said they had gained absoluelty nothing whatsoever - at ENS and couldnt wait to get out. terrible morale at that school!!! stay clear.