Reader MB was recently fired from a private language school he'd been working at for five years.
"No reason was given when this was made known to me — I was, however, asked to teach the remaining four to six weeks of the current term.
"When I asked the manager, he used a 'decline in numbers of students' excuse (classes are opened based on how many students apply) for the dismissal, although no more or less of my own proposed classes failed to open than other teachers', and a number of my students have taken classes for several years with me — a fact all the other teachers in the department agreed upon.