P & P's Story

P & P were an older couple with a lot of international experience and came a long way to get to BSB. P was a very meticulous chap. He wrote down his questions before his interview and then wrote down the answers he got.
Specifically they wanted an apartment with particular characteristics and were prepare to pay up to a 1000 euro a month extra, to have those facilities. He asked if they arrived 10 days early would they be able to look for an apartment then, so they could be settled before school started. He was assured by the owner that there would be no problem meeting this request.

He also asked about the units that were to be taught and was he able to change the unit, history for example to one more appropriate to the children he was teaching or were the units prescribed. The principal told him he would be free to use his own units if he wished.

So, P & P arrive in Bucharest 10 days early and get shown to an apartment. OK but not what they wanted. Then they find that they cannot go apartment hunting until the owner, Corina arrives back from holiday, and when was that to be you might ask, well it was the evening before school started. The teaching staff of course were all on deck for the week before to get orientated and to be prepared for the children.
Consequently the first chance to look at apartments was after school on the first day of school. They were taken to see 5 apartments, non of which remotely matched the facilities they had requested. Then the had a 3 hour KS2 staff meeting that went to 9pm where everything was dictated to them including the history units - absolutely no changes allowed. This was the final straw so they resigned and left a month later.

They were incensed that that had been so blatantly lied to by the Owner and Principal. Had they been told the truth about the cost of apartments they were seeking or the difficulty of meeting this requirement they they may have still come, but not with the expectations that they had.
P was also not prepared to tolerate the dictatorial style of the KS2 coordinator who was much younger and far less experienced than he was.


5 staff left in the first month

P & P were the first of 5 staff to leave within the first two couple of months of the school year. The other 3 were the result of having young children and being put in apartments unsuitable for young children.
In one case the wife was out in the suburbs with no transport and 3 kids, some quite young, so she up and walked and the husband for the sake of his marriage followed a month or so later.

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