[etni] Re: job postings (was: wall street and teachers)
- From: "ofra inbar" <inbarofra@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'Etni@Freelists. Org'" <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 07:01:01 +0200
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Thank you Lev for bringing up the issue.
It is truly discriminatory. One of the ways to fight this attitude is by
refusing to accept such ads in forums of any kind.
I would like to draw everyone's attention to TESOL's position statement
on equality and teacher quality
http://www.tesol.org/assoc/statements/2003-06-tq.html
and to the TESOL non-native teachers' caucus which deals with these
issues in depth.
http://www.tesol.org/mbr/caucuses/nnest.html
Ofra
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The following ad has appeared on ETNI Job search for about six months.
Wall Street Institute School of English is looking for dynamic and
creative native English speaking teachers for our branches in Petah
Tikva and Rishon.
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I would like to add another facet to the issue of banning certain ads
off this list.
In my opinion, posting "native English speaking teachers" requirement
would never run in a country where "Equal Opportunity Employment Policy"
is a must (see http://www.cokecce.com/srclib/1.1.3.html, for example)
unless one were looking for a lawsuit to lose. Call it a personal
crusade, but a few advertizers of this sort have already received
offlist messages explaining the racist nature of their posting:
applicant's place of birth set as a requirement for a position.
Ads like this hit a red button on my personal keyboard. I can still
remember the old burning feeling when, while in Russia, my job
applications kept getting rejected due to the fact that I was Jewish
(sometimes the reason was somewhat disguised, in other cases quite
explicit). I could never change that fact of my biography no matter how
hard I tried...
How do you think I feel when I see job ads listing "Native English
Speaker" among the requirements? To make such a long way from Russia -
only to get the same sort of feeling once again?! [Especially given the
fact that, unlike some native speakers posting to this list, I spell
"definitely," not "definAtely," and can tell the difference between
"its" and it's," etc. But who cares?!] BTW, only 1/4 of people speaking
English are native speakers; another quarter are those for whom English
is their second language. Finally, 50% speak English as a foreign
language. So who "owns" the language?
There is a very elegant solution for those who still believe they prefer
to hire someone born in a specific country, rather than a teacher with a
certain set of abilities and qualifications: list it as "language
proficiency at mother-tongue level." Then feel free to filter the
applications as you please - but at least make your posting look decent.
Non-natively yours -
Lev
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Lev Abramov
The Schiffman Institute - an equal opportunity employer.
<http://home.schiffman.biz>
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