I agree with you, it seems that once they "control" you they treat you like you're their property. I did a runner from this school and now this is their way of "showing" how much "power" they have.

We need to let the whole ESL community know that some schools not only see their foreign FT's as people with no rights, they take that for granted. Look what happened to me, I didn't want to take that crap that now THEY actually have the nerve to act like THEY have a right to pull this kind of crap!