Archive for the ‘A Preschool Venture’ Category

Step 1: Our DTI Registration Experience

Saturday, May 1st, 2010

After several coffee meetings, brainstorming, and googling, we had a good number of potential school names at hand. Picking out a name for your business can be tricky. It has to represent what your business offers and catchy enough to entice curiosity. Also, it has to be simple in a sense that people will easily remember it. Prior to DTI registration, you can do your own research at home, primarily to have an idea regarding its availability. You can go to DTI’s BNRS website for this. (more…)

The Trigger: Discrimination in International Schools

Friday, April 30th, 2010

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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