Emirates National Schools started the 2018-2019 academic year horribly unprepared. The number of students increased by about 30%. The senior management failed to make any changes to accommodate the increased number of students. ENS didn’t increase the admin staff, the support staff, the furniture, the equipment, the teacher work space, the internet capabilities or anything else. The teachers are all winging it and applying for jobs elsewhere. Most of the students have given up, they spend the whole day partying in class with their friends. The teachers are having to pay for the administration’s mistakes, all day every day. They were made to look like fools in front of the students and parents. - The students talk over the teacher and party with their mates all day, every day. They break the rules to the principal's face. They break school equipment like it's funny. They secretly record conversations with teachers, edit the recordings, then upload it to UA-cam etc. to try to make teachers look bad. That happened so often last year that cell phones are totally banned on all campuses. They all still bring their phones though. They cheat on assignments big and small. If they get caught, they give another student's name. If they get caught doing that, they will get in the teachers face for 10 minutes trying to convince them that it's all a misunderstanding. There are 12th graders who can't spell the word kilogram. There are 6th graders that can't remember their own full names. There are first graders that haven't been potty trained. The students here have no sense of personal responsibility and no appreciation for education whatsoever. - This school year started on 3 September. The teachers won't have the equipment or materials they need to do their jobs until the end of October, at the earliest. To include computers, computer programs, textbooks, printers you name it. It took us two weeks to be able to go into our classrooms! Yet at the same time, we were given lectures from day one on all the reports we have to make, all the information we have to upload to this and that website. We were told that everything needed to be ready before the first day of school. It's shocking to see such hypocrisy and hysterical ramblings from people face-to-face. I couldn't help but feel they were purposely trying to de-motivate us and stress us out. They showed us hundreds of slides full of rules we have to follow, but never gave us a copy. "Set us up for failure" doesn't even begin to describe the way we've been treated by the leadership. Managers kept telling us that we need to achieve an "outstanding" rating from external auditors, but at the same time most of us don’t even know what subject they want us to teach. - The first month on the job was extremely unpleasant. No pay advances, they take and keep your passport, no insurance, no bank account, no foreign forms of ID are accepted ANYWHERE in the country, no access to a telephone (because you can't buy a SIM card without your PASSPORT, no money transfers (passport again), no immigration visa, no driving (int'l licenses not accepted), no Skype (illegal), no internet video or audio calls to friends and family (the internet in the provided apartments is too slow, and upgrades aren't available). I could add a lot more. - The ENS company is very money-minded. They offer every trendy curriculum option under the sun in order to attract more parents, and to get existing parent to pay more. We have national curriculum, Islamic curriculum, MYP, DP, PYP, IB, GCE, full disability inclusion, high school diploma, international diploma, late registration, early registration, 20 electives, 3 languages, unlimited student absences, reports for the parents, and more. The problem is, they don't commit enough resources or funding to make ANY of these programs effective. It's all for show - all for the money. - If the management wants something, it’s due at the end of the day along with an explanation of why it hasn’t already been done. If the teachers need something from the management, it gets added on to their "to not do list". Even if a manager tells you face-to-face that they are going to do something, they still might not do it. Even if they tell the entire staff of teachers in a meeting, in person, that a problem will get fixed -it still doesn’t get fixed. During the same meeting, one manager will tell us “Don’t worry, everything will be taken care of”. Then immediately after another will tell us, “this needs to get done!” - The worst part is hearing conversations from other teachers about how they are just waiting to recover their expenses on travel and paperwork, and then they will quit and fly home. This means that, in addition to all the problems we currently have, our workloads are probably going to double as we are told to take up the slack from the teachers that leave. We have to do tons of work on the weekends to make up for the unrealistic deadlines. Even more so because we are all on our own to come up with alternative solutions for not having the support we need, the equipment we need, the information we need, the schedule we need, the access we need, the standards we are supposed to follow etc. etc. etc.
im still at this schoool and today i have sports day
انا في هاي الحديقة انا اسمعي جنى
HEY I was in this school my name is ismail i was grade 4 last year now im in british school im in year 6
i'm in girls school in grade 5c from KG1 tell now i'm in the same school i love my school
Emirates National Schools started the 2018-2019 academic year horribly unprepared. The number of students increased by about 30%. The senior management failed to make any changes to accommodate the increased number of students. ENS didn’t increase the admin staff, the support staff, the furniture, the equipment, the teacher work space, the internet capabilities or anything else. The teachers are all winging it and applying for jobs elsewhere. Most of the students have given up, they spend the whole day partying in class with their friends. The teachers are having to pay for the administration’s mistakes, all day every day. They were made to look like fools in front of the students and parents.
- The students talk over the teacher and party with their mates all day, every day. They break the rules to the principal's face. They break school equipment like it's funny. They secretly record conversations with teachers, edit the recordings, then upload it to UA-cam etc. to try to make teachers look bad. That happened so often last year that cell phones are totally banned on all campuses. They all still bring their phones though. They cheat on assignments big and small. If they get caught, they give another student's name. If they get caught doing that, they will get in the teachers face for 10 minutes trying to convince them that it's all a misunderstanding. There are 12th graders who can't spell the word kilogram. There are 6th graders that can't remember their own full names. There are first graders that haven't been potty trained. The students here have no sense of personal responsibility and no appreciation for education whatsoever.
- This school year started on 3 September. The teachers won't have the equipment or materials they need to do their jobs until the end of October, at the earliest. To include computers, computer programs, textbooks, printers you name it. It took us two weeks to be able to go into our classrooms! Yet at the same time, we were given lectures from day one on all the reports we have to make, all the information we have to upload to this and that website. We were told that everything needed to be ready before the first day of school. It's shocking to see such hypocrisy and hysterical ramblings from people face-to-face. I couldn't help but feel they were purposely trying to de-motivate us and stress us out. They showed us hundreds of slides full of rules we have to follow, but never gave us a copy. "Set us up for failure" doesn't even begin to describe the way we've been treated by the leadership. Managers kept telling us that we need to achieve an "outstanding" rating from external auditors, but at the same time most of us don’t even know what subject they want us to teach.
- The first month on the job was extremely unpleasant. No pay advances, they take and keep your passport, no insurance, no bank account, no foreign forms of ID are accepted ANYWHERE in the country, no access to a telephone (because you can't buy a SIM card without your PASSPORT, no money transfers (passport again), no immigration visa, no driving (int'l licenses not accepted), no Skype (illegal), no internet video or audio calls to friends and family (the internet in the provided apartments is too slow, and upgrades aren't available). I could add a lot more.
- The ENS company is very money-minded. They offer every trendy curriculum option under the sun in order to attract more parents, and to get existing parent to pay more. We have national curriculum, Islamic curriculum, MYP, DP, PYP, IB, GCE, full disability inclusion, high school diploma, international diploma, late registration, early registration, 20 electives, 3 languages, unlimited student absences, reports for the parents, and more. The problem is, they don't commit enough resources or funding to make ANY of these programs effective. It's all for show - all for the money.
- If the management wants something, it’s due at the end of the day along with an explanation of why it hasn’t already been done. If the teachers need something from the management, it gets added on to their "to not do list". Even if a manager tells you face-to-face that they are going to do something, they still might not do it. Even if they tell the entire staff of teachers in a meeting, in person, that a problem will get fixed -it still doesn’t get fixed. During the same meeting, one manager will tell us “Don’t worry, everything will be taken care of”. Then immediately after another will tell us, “this needs to get done!”
- The worst part is hearing conversations from other teachers about how they are just waiting to recover their expenses on travel and paperwork, and then they will quit and fly home. This means that, in addition to all the problems we currently have, our workloads are probably going to double as we are told to take up the slack from the teachers that leave. We have to do tons of work on the weekends to make up for the unrealistic deadlines. Even more so because we are all on our own to come up with alternative solutions for not having the support we need, the equipment we need, the information we need, the schedule we need, the access we need, the standards we are supposed to follow etc. etc. etc.