International School of Kenya
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 7:42 am
Does anyone have experience with this school? There isn't a review of this school on ISR. I'd love to hear the pros and cons of working here. Thanks!
It's been awhile, but teaching at ISK was a great experience. The campus is beautiful - not high tech, glossy beautiful - but Kenya beautiful. Elementary school rooms are in round buildings built to resemble huts. There are almost 50 acres of grass, bougainvillea, banana groves, jacaranda trees which carpet the campus in violet blooms daily during August. The kids were superb - children of diplomats, NGO officers, medical researchers, academics. The ratio of parents who held PhDs had to be among the best in the world. The consequence of this was students had high expectations of themselves. Travel opportunities within Kenya were vast - safaris or the beach - which do you prefer?
The drawback was safety, and the situtation has gotten worse. Bad things do happen to good people, and some teachers--like other residents of Kenya- have been victims of terrible crimes. The school did address this, but they cannot protect everyone all the time.