SONDANNESTs

 The world of certifications...will most probably not help to spell the end of discrimination against Non Native English Speaking Teachers ! As you know, Qualiopi is now a must-have certification for training organisations that want to use the CPF. Does this certification help to avoid discriminations of any kind ? No... So you may be a Qualiopi certified school and continue to discriminate against NNESTs, no one is going to tell you off...well, no one but me, of course ! Because in such situation I will consider you are no longer a quality school. To me, a quality school treats their teachers as quality ones...but Qualiopi doesn't take this dimension into account...not at all. Nothing about offering teachers minimum decent rates, nothing about payment terms either...and so on... Yesterday I had a phone interview with a person from LDS (Languages Development Society). As often, I was told over the phone that my application couldn't suit the school's need because I am a NNES

 Hi readers ! You are more and more numerous and this is a good news ! But I'm well-aware that there's still a long way to go... some people contact me because as NNESTs like me, some language schools have discriminated against them... But when I ask them to post something on my blog, even anonymously, they don't take the plunge...probably because they are afraid of the possible consequences. A lady told me : don't give up, do continue your fight ! But the thing is it's not only my fight, it's every teacher's fight to ensure no more discrimination is perpetrated in the world on ELT. I do understand that some teachers don't have the financial or time resources, that some of them are simply not prepared to fight on a legal level. Personnaly, I am still very much committed to taking this to wherever it needs in order for those bad practices to cease. So why this new post ? Because I have some good news ! I have talked with a lawyer and I am now officially t