After a career as a teacher ending as headmistress of Moorfield School Ilkley Tish Burton (Brian's wife) started working as an education officer for Nord Anglia. They ran 40 international day and boarding schools are located in 15 countries across North America, Asia, the Middle East and Europe. Each education officer was responsible for about 8 schools.
Tish enjoyed life travelling around the schools under her wing but her travels were interrupted when she was asked to go sort out the British International School in Berlin. The female head teacher had registered a formal complaint against a male educational officer. When she got to the school she found that it was failing and the head was not in control. In the UK the school would have been put into special measures. She was asked by her manager to stay at the school for 2 week to do a detailed report which she did. She was then asked to go back for one term to get the school back on track. She agreed and in February 2004 she and Brian packed up and moved to Berlin.
There were 42 different nationalities at the school with several major groups of children - Diplomats, Expats, Russian Mafia and German.
The main problems were: -
The managing director of Nord Anglia told Tish to sort it out. On her first day there there had to be a mass evacuation of the school because somebody set off a stink bomb. Also the head boy was poisoned in the chemistry lesson. The police were called in over the poisoning and she had to persuade them not to arrest the child who had done the deed.
To get things back on track she came up with a four part plan: -
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