Avoid the Newton Free School in Tbilisi, Georgia
The school will violate its contract and then harass you for complaining about the contract conditions not being met and threaten to terminate you. The environment is highly toxic and allows students to assault, stalk, and injure teachers, and refuses to discipline students. Teachers have been hospitalized because of injuries and the school refuses to cover the medical bills and will blame the teacher for being injured. If any complaints are filed, the school punishes teachers with extra work and then harasses the teachers into silence and force the teacher to remove the complaint. The school will dock pay from teachers based on their opinion of performance and will deny sick pay even with medical documentation, even if it is listed in the contract. The administration is extremely abusive and treats teachers like they are worthless. The administration harasses teachers constantly and will have the staff harass teachers as well. The administration spies on teachers constantly and will monitor social media of all the teachers for anything that they do not agree with. The leadership of the school has never been teachers; they are career bureaucrats. If a student’s grade is too low, they will force the teacher to change it. The yearly turn overrate is 100% among the foreign staff. Even if you complete your contract, and leave quietly, the administration will have their staff reach out to all schools in the city, and tell them to not hire you; not acting as a reference, but proactively making sure that no one will hire you. Several qualified teachers/colleagues have lost opportunities because of this. You have been warned.
The pay is also low, hours are long, and abuse is constant. If you decide to ignore this warning, ask for nothing less than 5000.00 lari per month.