Why do expats in the Woodlands have their kids sent to private school paid for by the company while those in the Permian get no help with the pathetic excuse of a schooling system in Midland and Carlsbad?
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Sounds like your a crybaby, deal with it.
Ya’all need to check your expat policies. Expats in the Woodlands are given like $8k a year if they choose a private school. So if you see their kids at a more expensive school, they are either paying out of pocket or perhaps grandfathered based on their start of assignment.
$8k/yr barely pays for a Catholic school. It does not give access to schools that provide language support or keep children on a home-country curriculum.
As an American, would you be okay transitioning your children to an Australian curriculum or British curriculum? What if they come back to the US in high school, and are placed low in math and science….not because their schools were poor but because they studied different topics at different times. In that case, congratulations, your expat assignment might have your children placed-out-of or self-electing out of a STEM career. It is a reality.
Now reverse it. If you are British or Australian, are you going to do that to your children? Some of those countries select educational tracks for the children’s whole future in the early teen age-range and based on standardized tests. Do you think a US CORE curriculum is going to prepare your child for for your home-country’s testing requirements to progress a STEM collage-prep trajectory?
One think that no parent wants messed with is their children’s futures. It is obtuse of a company to move an employee, and not give that employee full access to company-compensated educational choice. They know employees will families will not accept the assignments. ….or worse, accept the assignment, and then….only later….recognize the mistake.
Does Baton Rouge really oay for private school like a poster stated below? Permian does not.
uru+1jdTWCax Sounds like someone has their kids at an overpriced private school in the woodlands and can’t use logic to defend why the company policy allows this.
So why do we put the children of English speakers from UK, Australia, Canada into private schools in the Woodlands. I take no exception to others who don’t speak English. That was not my point.
If your children are English speaking and you leave the US/UK, you expect the company provide the money to support their language (or language transition) in a private school.
Need break: Woodlands schools cannot accommodate anything but English and Spanish.
But we have expats whose families speak a diverse array of languages. They have children who are not fluent English speakers and cannot go into a public school immediately.
If we wanted a mediocre policy that I have seen used at other companies, than every expat gets a flat 5 years of private school for their kids….which is a fair assumption of how long it takes to transition languages without scaring the child.
The current system favors Americans, British and childless people on expat assignments. We’ve heard ‘quiet quitting’ and ‘quiet firing’ on this page.’ But what do you call a policy that causes talented people of a nationality or family-status to self-select out of job-advancing expat assignments because they cannot put their family in that hardship (financially or through a jarring language transition.)?
I really don’t understand the bickering I hear in these comments. We should be asking for better and equal assignment benefits for everyone.
Sounds like someone has a bad case of jealousy and wants everything based on equity. News flash!! No 2 humans are equal just like no 2 wild animals are equal! The fittest eat and the weak don't. If you want your kids in private schools in The Woodlands earn it & don't accept a job in Permian. Humans decide yes or no if tge take a job and where they live. It isn't a free ride or everyone is entitled to it! Get a f. .ing clue!!
Why would any one pay 28k per kid for private elementary in The Woodlands?
Expats at Houston campus get their private school for kids paid for. No one in Permian gets their private school paid for. Makes zero sense. Another example of protecting the chosen HiPos but not the normal employees.
Expats at Spring campus get private school
How dare you talked against Permian.
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Get the facts straight. Company no longer pays for private school when you have a campus based role. You pay for it out of pocket. I know many who had it cut mid-assignment and had to pull kids out or fork over the cash.
From what I last heard, the only places expats in the US get private school option are Midland and Baton Rouge. Both have strained and underperforming public school systems. Woodlands has top tier public schools, no need to Shell out $28k per kid for private elementary in The Woodlands.
Now you’re right to question why non expats that get sent to Permian don’t get the option. I’ve heard of other companies paying for certain employees who negotiated it along with their transfer. I’d take that in lieu of a COLA to be honest.
It's to deal w issues like religion and culture bro.