Pros
Really can't think of a pro that outweighs the cons.
Cons
Those who have taught in private schools before know that the meeting of teaching and customer service that occurs when your students' parents are paying for their tuition is bad and it is taken to the extreme here. There is nothing that differentiates SABIS from other private schools other than the reputation for high academic performance, but those grades are dishonest and manipulated, at least at the lower grade levels. I was repeatedly told to "HELP" students when I invigilated exams and conducted spelling tests in order to ensure that nobody failed or got a grade too low, despite the fact that many of the students simply did not have the academic skill to be there and being at another school would have been greatly more beneficial to their learning, as well as to the learning of the rare few students who WERE able to keep up with the curriculum. I mean, just a look at the class sizes put this whole "everyone here is a super genius" to rest. There's 6-7 class sections of 2nd graders, each section comprised of 32 to 34 students. How can one small city have that many geniuses who happen to be in second grade? The kids are absolutely suffering and absorbing nothing. Of course there isn't a large enough staff outcry as most of them are young expats who are there only to facilitate a lifestyle of partying and drinking and have no background in teaching nor any ambition towards teaching in the future. Just terrible. If you actually care about kids or your professional dignity at all, stay far away.
