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alcesverdes) wrote2014-12-15 06:50 pm
alcesverdes) wrote2014-12-15 06:50 pm
The facts are these
1) I work for an government-dependent institute that provides affordable classes about things like carpentry, professional make up, electricity, languages, professional cooking, and all kind of useful things to people in the lower section of the socio-economic spectrum so they gain another tool to improve their situation. What I teach is English, btw.
2) The federal government has a program about giving some of those classes completely free to the neighborhoods in the worse conditions. It absorbs the 70% of the expenses while the city council deals with the 30%.
3) The city council hires the institute I work for. We are all lured with the promise that there'll be a school and classrooms and 25 students by class, even if the material will arrive in mid-October because they still don't have the money. Said material was food for the cooking class, everything they work with in custom jewelry, and the books for my class. The books are about 40USD each, btw.
4) There we went.
5) There was a school, all right, but nothing else. No room - the school was too small. No students - the person in charge to promote the curses WAITED UNTIL TWO WEEKS AGO TO ACTUALLY PRINT THE FREAKING PAMPHLETS.
6) The only reasons I got some students after a week was because I kept going. I had to buy a whiteboard and give the classes outside in a gazebo.
7) I was the one who was better off since I could give photocopies and the kids could copy what I wrote on the whiteboard - and yet some deserted because they were promised books, and we didn't have them until the last week of November. The cooking teacher and the custom jewelry teacher lost so many students because they were supposed to get the material for free but to actually work in class they ended up having to buy everything.
8) We still do what we could. We even stopped going to give classes for two weeks to pressure the city council guys to get us the material.
9) In the mean time, I lost all students but one, but I took some new kids to fill in the space and to give out some of the free books. (I'm carrying around 900USD worth of books in my car a-ahahaha). But I only gave out like 8 and they need to give out the 25.
10) I was only hired to work 140 hours, which end this Thursday (thanks to every deity), but said Thursday there's a ceremony where the kids have to do a presentation of something, I have students who started TODAY because I'm being forced to accept them to give out the damn books, and they're not in condition of doing anything as complex as they could've done if we had started back on September.
11) Today, when I got there, the room we were finally allowed to use a couple of weeks ago when the weather turned too cold and the school admins realized they looked like assholes, was closed. And the cleaning lady refused to open it because. FTR she's always been an asshole too. I've not only seen it but the mom of one of my students also told me. So if there was going to be any class, it'd be outside. In the cold. WHEN THE DAMN CEREMONY IS ON THURSDAY.
12) I called not my direct boss from the institute, but the woman in charge of the project in the city council and I ranted my heart out about everything and it was so good, man =3=
What I got were apologies from her, the promise that she would call the authorities of the school, and that if the kids can't do anything complex, we can do something small and silly. Oh, and the cleaning lady had to open another classroom for us, one that's usually empty and unused. And she looked scared. And that felt good too. =3=!
13) IT ENDS ON THURSDAY.
14) We're singing Itsy Bitsy Spider and The Hokey Pokey. Fuck the man.
2) The federal government has a program about giving some of those classes completely free to the neighborhoods in the worse conditions. It absorbs the 70% of the expenses while the city council deals with the 30%.
3) The city council hires the institute I work for. We are all lured with the promise that there'll be a school and classrooms and 25 students by class, even if the material will arrive in mid-October because they still don't have the money. Said material was food for the cooking class, everything they work with in custom jewelry, and the books for my class. The books are about 40USD each, btw.
4) There we went.
5) There was a school, all right, but nothing else. No room - the school was too small. No students - the person in charge to promote the curses WAITED UNTIL TWO WEEKS AGO TO ACTUALLY PRINT THE FREAKING PAMPHLETS.
6) The only reasons I got some students after a week was because I kept going. I had to buy a whiteboard and give the classes outside in a gazebo.
7) I was the one who was better off since I could give photocopies and the kids could copy what I wrote on the whiteboard - and yet some deserted because they were promised books, and we didn't have them until the last week of November. The cooking teacher and the custom jewelry teacher lost so many students because they were supposed to get the material for free but to actually work in class they ended up having to buy everything.
8) We still do what we could. We even stopped going to give classes for two weeks to pressure the city council guys to get us the material.
9) In the mean time, I lost all students but one, but I took some new kids to fill in the space and to give out some of the free books. (I'm carrying around 900USD worth of books in my car a-ahahaha). But I only gave out like 8 and they need to give out the 25.
10) I was only hired to work 140 hours, which end this Thursday (thanks to every deity), but said Thursday there's a ceremony where the kids have to do a presentation of something, I have students who started TODAY because I'm being forced to accept them to give out the damn books, and they're not in condition of doing anything as complex as they could've done if we had started back on September.
11) Today, when I got there, the room we were finally allowed to use a couple of weeks ago when the weather turned too cold and the school admins realized they looked like assholes, was closed. And the cleaning lady refused to open it because. FTR she's always been an asshole too. I've not only seen it but the mom of one of my students also told me. So if there was going to be any class, it'd be outside. In the cold. WHEN THE DAMN CEREMONY IS ON THURSDAY.
12) I called not my direct boss from the institute, but the woman in charge of the project in the city council and I ranted my heart out about everything and it was so good, man =3=
What I got were apologies from her, the promise that she would call the authorities of the school, and that if the kids can't do anything complex, we can do something small and silly. Oh, and the cleaning lady had to open another classroom for us, one that's usually empty and unused. And she looked scared. And that felt good too. =3=!
13) IT ENDS ON THURSDAY.
14) We're singing Itsy Bitsy Spider and The Hokey Pokey. Fuck the man.