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#1 Parent Banana Joe - 2011-09-19
Re: LA PETITE ACADEMY DE STUPIDITE OF BOUGIVAL

one week in the life of Petite Academy for useless people is a very long time

If those people were really useless (as you say), why did you employ them then in the first place?

Don't you check their qualifications, work history, and all that?
For an ordinary employee it is unusual to last only one week but not necessarily for a freelancer. So, I suppose you employed them as (a) freelancer(s) and there was something wrong, so they left after one week. These are the facts.

Now, let us take a deeper look at this:
- If they were freelancers, you did not check them thoroughly enough an gave them job finally turning out to be "useless" (as you claim). It means up to that moment, you dealt with them as any school employing freelancers would do..get in, get out, nothing to last permanently, no concern for quality education by trying to make every effort to keep good teachers for a longer period of time.
- The students at your "Academy", if you have any at all, would certainly not appreciate if you employ teachers that turn out to be "useless" and to have another teacher replacing them every time they are coming there for a lesson! Hahahaha...

I think the reason for this mess is your business model. You treat teachers, useless or not, all the same cheap way by employing them freelance but dealing with them the same way like full-time employees. In fact, you are dealing with pretend-full time employees as freelancers.

In the end, the failure is with the system of the business model you are following, and all that is on the back of your students (if any) who are paying for this mess!

Therefore, as I said:

LA PETITE ACADEMY DE STUPIDITE OF BOUGIVAL!

#2 Parent Andra - 2011-09-18
Re: LA PETITE ACADEMY DE STUPIDITE OF BOUGIVAL

Mr Banana Joe, I think you were referring to your name when you used the word "Stupidite"!!! And please tell everyone what high turnover means.... one week in the life of Petite Academy for useless people is a very long time.... 2 years for me and 2 years and 3 months for C[edited] when we had come to the Petite Academy only for a few months is a long time too!!! We recommend intelligent people to base their decision on their own judgement and not read these malicious comments. Good luck to all.

#3 Parent Banana Joe - 2011-09-17
Re: LA PETITE ACADEMY DE STUPIDITE OF BOUGIVAL

We both wish someone had warned us before we accepted this job.

Well, be happy to be out that rubbish job, and good luck!

The secret in this crappy world of ESL always is this:

You should never last long and waste your time with an employer who either bullies, cheats, or fails to deliver what was promised.

ESL jobs are not career but rather "intermediate" jobs! School owners very often are much less professional or not professional at all than the teachers they employ for a salary not enough to live and to die on!

Professional schools value their good teachers and try to make them happy- as a happy teacher is also a good teacher, and good teachers are not easy to replace or cannot be replaced at all!

Schools with a high turn-over rate of teachers are always a sign that they do not value their teachers, which means it is a waste of time and effort to work for any of them!

Valerie Lauretta and Addie Sandbeck - 2011-09-16
LA PETITE ACADEMY OF BOUGIVAL

BIG WARNING: The boss, Tulay Farra, is extremely unprofessional, controlling and psychologically abusive. SHE IS A BULLY!

IF YOU TAKE A JOB AT LA PETITE ACADEMY IN BOUGIVAL YOU WILL REGRET IT. SHE WILL SUCK OUT YOUR BLOOD. YOUR LIFE FORCE.

We both wish someone had warned us before we accepted this job. We only lasted one week and for both of us it was the most unpleasant and SURREAL work experience of our lives. Children are not her priority: she is.

We've both found new jobs in China and are very happy. There are other options; don't stop at La Petite Academy in Bougival.

Sincerely,
Valérie and Addie

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