After two consecutive years of disappointment as teachers of big schools, we have finally decided to go for our ultimate dream- that of building our very own preschool.

For the longest time, this idea was just like any other favorite topic of conversation. We do not take it seriously. After all, we are very much enjoying our slow and easy life as teachers in a new international school. However, as much as we take pleasure in our stress free work place, mismanagement and disorganization that are like cancer in that organization finally took its toll on us. For some insane reason, the Korean-owners of the school are fearing that Filipino teachers will sue them eventually because of the huge income disparity that exists between the local teachers and the foreign teachers (ala the famous labor case of International School of Manila). And because of the workings of their extra wild imagination, they have decided to ‘demote’ the Filipino Teachers into Assistant Teachers, as will be clearly indicated in their next contract of employment.
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