Khaled Al-Sulaiman Okaz A German woman who is the principal of an international private school had on Tuesday sacked seven Saudi women teachers under the pretext that their services were no longer required after they had spent two years teaching at the school. It was pointed out that these women were forcibly expelled from the school premises to the point that they were not even allowed to put on their abayas. Regardless of the truthfulness of this story and the absence of a testimony from the principal, the system, according to best of my knowledge, does not allow the appointment of a foreigner as a principal of a regular school in the Kingdom. Therefore the presence of this German woman as a school principal is a gross violation of the system, unless this system is too weak to cope with the power of the German machines. The expulsion of the Saudi women teachers, no matter what its reasons might be, is simply shameful. It is not right that such an incident would take place at an educational institution, which should be a place for good behavior, not quarrels. The Ministry of Education is required to reveal to us the true story and tell us how a foreign woman was allowed to take up the highest managerial position at a school. How can the principal kick out Saudi women teachers, who are contracted and registered with the General Organization for Social Insurance (GOSI), without referring first to the labor laws that organize the contractual relationship between private schools and the Saudi teachers? Is the wall of the Saudi individual so low that every short person can jump over it?
