How does a director go about black balling a teacher?
3. Can teachers black ball other teachers? 4. How do you know if you’ve been “black balled”? 5. If someone has experienced this, what measures can be taken to correct the situation? I’m writing this after having read school descriptions indicating that the director had instructors black balled. I’m an international teacher and would like to know how to protect myself from this ever happening. Thanks very much! Matthew Dr Spilchuk’s Reply: Dear Matthew Thank you so much for your questions. I think that many teachers, particularly new teachers to International Education, are unaware of ‘black-balling’ techniques that can be used to set a tone of discrimination against them for years to come. Actually, ‘blackballing’ is not specific to International Education. You will find a wide body of knowledge on this area of research in American, Canadian, UK, Australian, New Zealand and Norwegian literature. To answer your questions in order: 1. What exactly does black balling mean? Blackballing in
