It's 2016 and everything still applies; students skip class, they smoke in the bathrooms, and all the grades are still forged. Except, the school wants to brush all that under the surface now by getting accredited by the WASC. They fired another foreign teacher supposedly for leaking the test questions to the midterm (something which MANY of the Chinese teachers, and some of the foreign teachers do) a month ago, but the truth is they did so to brag about how "honest" the school's grading policy is, and because the teacher "unfairly" asked for a pay raise. Also, the school principal, Wang Guangfa, threatened that any students who "got in the way" of BRS getting accredited by the WASC would be expelled (meaning, if they exposed the school for what it really is).

Those thinking about teaching here will be disappointed. The wifi is slow, apartments are broken down, you have to get permission for idiotic things like printing out class assignments, the canteens are overpriced and the food disgusting, if you don't agree with everything the administrators say you'll probably get fired, and you will probably never do labs or interactive activities with your classes and instead resort to reading from powerpoints while the students fall asleep or play on their iPads in class.

It's obvious that all the students here hate being here, and are coerced by their parents to attend. They're forced to take 8-10 classes per year, school hours go from 8am to 9pm, and are compelled to attend "educational assemblies" where basically the principal and his rich, corrupt corporate friends brag about their own accomplishments and themselves.

In all, BRS is just Wang Guangfa's vanity project and portion of his corporate empire. The guy doesn't care about education AT ALL, only about EARNING MONEY FOR HIMSELF. It is an absolute SCAM. If you want to teach in Beijing, try Keystone Academy or a legitimate international high school in Shunyi instead.