(reposting this again: I have a lot of groups in my other account and my friends are complaining about the notifications they see on their timeline. haha. I hope you dont mind.) Hanoi newbie here. Two weeks in, I realized that I was looking for the holy grail of the citys ESL industry: the were looking for good teachers schools as opposed to the were looking for native English teachers ones. Then I discovered that in most places native means white. Dont these people watch TV and know that the US president is not white? I dont even want to get into that. Its like a multi-layered stigma of racism that I couldnt help but find myself smack in the middle of (hows that to show the kind of complex sentences I can correctly make?). Im a full-blooded Filipino. Ive been sending application emails to companies everywhere. I didnt get replies from all of them but those that responded gave me subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) variations of you have dark skin. Well, I also have a 10-year experience teaching in an ESL environment, I actually like to teach, and I care about my students. But nope, its not enough. Experience and passion be damned for these cretins. But I guess it is what it is. We cant force business owners to grow a brain or teach them what an investment in business really means. (Im not saying were a better investment. Im saying were just as good, and skin color shouldnt be a qualifier.) So heres what I propose to the group: help me find the holy grail. Or lets help each other divine its location. It would be awesome to have an updated list of schools that are deranged and white-crazy so that the rest of us looking for employment can avoid wasting our time. And another list of schools that have actually hired and continues to hire teachers regardless of skin color so that we may stand a chance. For some of us, a chance is all we need. There are 142 people in here. Lets get going. Pretty please? Or is the holy grail actually just another myth?
Posted on: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 09:13:43 +0000