Colegio Mas Camarena Valencia
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The school has awful rules that make no sense and the children have to pay for it even though they don't know what they did wrong. Almost all the teachers here don't care about the students and don't help them out, only if you pay more of course. I recommend you don't send your children here the food and education here is just awful. Hopefully this school improves even though I don't think it ever will.

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Más Camarena has a good reputation for facilities, equipment, subjects offered etc, but it is a business first and foremost. They have smaller schools in Valterna and Canet. Canet is a beautiful town, near the beach, really pretty. The school itself is fine, the students are nice to work with and it has up to date technology. Like all Más Camarena schools there is a culture of every teacher being out for eachother. Telling tales about staff members is the norm to a really large extent. In general those who tell the most tales are favoured by the management. Being a good teacher is not at all what they want, they want robots who will simply follow a plan made somewhere else. If you want to be an amazing and creative teacher, go somewhere else. They don't have any time for weaker children and will deliberately leave them fall behind unless parents pay for support classes, this the reason for mediocre teachers, it's better for business. The management team is comprised of sycophants, crawlers and people who are generally incompitant at anything other than bowing and scraping to the owner. The principal of the school, which is a primary and secondary multilingual, has never taught in either level, nor does she speak anything other than Spanish. She is unqualified, ignorant, arrogant and a horrible person. Most of the time she has the appearance of a crow looking into an empty packet of crisps when anything to do with education is mentioned, she has no idea, again a sycophant and supplicant. In general management policy is 'act now, look for facts later' which leads to disasters that they never acknowledge or apologise for. In one sense it is fine if you just want to get experience and move on, in another sense it is a microcosm of Spanish society, you can really learn a lot about how it works here. As far as exams are concerned they are terribly easy. Children also do Cambridge exams for a grade lower, so they all pass. Although it is a Cambridge Preparation centre, none of the teachers are trained by Cambridge. If grades look to be too low, they are increased to keep parents, who are essentially clients happy. There is a secondary level and the same happens there routinely but this depends on the students. It is a Spanish school so they don't do GCSEs as in the UK. Teachers complain about the weaker ones but offer no solutions. There is no CPD or any other training of real quality. Other petty things playground duties, the amount you do will depend on how you are viewed by the management. If you come from the UK to work here, bear in mind Spanish working culture, ignorance towards workers rights and a toxic work culture.

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