Tuesday, September 29, 2009

A Message to the Fresh Meat - BKC Moscow Hires From Fall of 2009

This comes courtesy of a long term BKC Moscow teacher. Originally posted on the BKC-IH Moscow Teacher's Forum.

Welcome.

You have just started at BKC. You are just settling into life in Moscow and IH. You are not sure how anything works, probably don't speak the local language. Or maybe you do. You are still finding your feet in the classroom. More than likely, you are a new, raw, teacher with little real experience and the 'induction' process has done little to reassure you that you can pass muster. Don't worry. That's how BKC likes it. It is just like last year, and the years before. Fresh meat to be feed through the murder-machine. The more innocent, the better. It doesn't matter how much of a mess you make, you are easily replaced, and quite cheaply too. Much cheaper than employing an experienced teacher. Much more malleable too, less likely to know your rights, much less demand them. Just a commodity. Branded Cattle.

So good luck to you. I hope you make it to the end of your contract. A lot of you probably won't. Or won't want to. There is no shame in that. There were many thousands before just like you, who were sold the dream, only to see it slowly descend into the nightmare that is working for BKC. Thousands like you, who eventually quit in dark, weeping despair.

Those of you who do somehow complete a contract may end up as ADOSes yourselves, 'inducting' 2010's fresh meat. But, then the real torment that is ADOShood awaits you. 

Few heed the warning. 

Fewer survive.

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