An American teacher from a Tomorrow School here left the country secretly without submitting the grades of his class to the school management.
The management and the teacher's colleagues did manage to convince him to submit the results by e-mail, preventing serious problems for the school.
According to sources the teacher did not want to submit the grades to "punish" the Ministry of Education.
The English Language teacher, identified as D.A., was informed before the incident by the Ministry of Education that the ministry would not renew his annual contract.
The teacher decided to respond to this move, which he considered unfair, by leaving the country without submitting the grades of his class.
He knew the school would not be able to evaluate the students again, especially with the end of the academic year approaching.
D.A. sold his furniture and then drove to the airport with a rented car, which he left at the airport. He called the rental agency in Ras Al Khaimah from the aeroplane, informing them to collect the money from the Ministry of Education. He also left an unsettled bank account behind.
Yousuf Al Shehi, principal of the school, said once it had been confirmed that D.A. had left the country, his colleagues were instructed to take over his classes. The school management refused a substitute in the best interest of the students.
Al Shehi said the school management and colleagues wrote to D.A. to ask for the grades of his students, adding that the school adopted a friendly manner to handle the teacher. He responded by e-mailing the grades. The school told him that they did not have anything to do with the decision by the Ministry of Education not to renew his contract.
Original article found here.
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8 comments:
How mature of him... do you get the idea that he posts on Dave's complaining about how immature and vindictive his employer(s) is(are). sheeeesshh...
VS
lol...no doubt, VS! Since this happened in RAK I'm wondering what this has to do w/ the Ministry of Education directly. I wasn't aware that the MOE within Ras Al Kheimah was hiring. If they are not, why would the MOE have any say about his annual contract not being renewed?
I would suspect that the Ministry could block any teacher in any school in the Emirate ... especially in a situation like this.
VS
Very true, but it sounded like he took the exams as retaliation. Why would the minstry get involved in not renewing a contract unless it was in one of their schools/MOE contracts, no?
You're assuming that we are getting the full story here. Why did he do what he did? What else had he done? Were these system wide exams?
At KU, we had a teacher who - after he was arrested and jailed for attempting fraud at a bank - we discovered that he had destroyed all the final exams for his students and gave them all A's and B's. (an apparent miracle)
VS
OK, but it is more important to me what Hawaii looks like! RC LOL
Wow, I hate to sound jaded (which I am,) but Alaska used to get sketchy creatures from the Lower 48, and you usually found out about it on the news, after something bad happened. Then an investigation, and some sort of fraud, whatever would be found. My suspicion in the UAE has always been suspicious- some people have past lives they're running from, and this place just a rest stop.
Very true, VB. All sorts go to the ME to teach...
Rhonda, check out the full photo album on flickr!
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