Finn's Age...

Monday, March 2, 2009

Shit Day

Today has been a pretty shitty day.

We had a whole school meeting this afternoon. Due to the economic slowdown, our school has had to make some cuts. 7 people were told their contracts are not to be renewed today, to go with around 7 who have already been told there position no longer exists. We also found out our Head of School is not renewing his contract either. It's a dreary place, the Head, Primary Principal, Assistant Principal, PYP co-ordination and 3 head-of grade coordinators (so most of our leadership - bar 2 grade level coordinators) are leaving, possibly the Early Years Principal (who was on an interview today) along with 40 staff this year. They have cut a staff of 165 down to 115. We won't be getting our end of year bonus, which you have to accumulate 70 hours of extra-curricular work to get 10,000 RMB any more. Now we are just worried about being paid.

We are so glad we chose to come home.

2 comments:

little rene said...

Sorry to hear that things over there are a bit crappy Kelly :(

But "yay" for almost having a wedding dress :)

Cat said...

Hang in there. You haven't got long to go, and your new mantra can be: "just think of the dress!"