Agents are a very special group of crooks in Chinese ESL, and by far the worst. They sell you out to schools and "schools", you have a contract with them and not the schools they are sending you to. They get all the money from the schools or "schools" for your work but pocket the largest part themselves. Some of them call themselves falsely "schools" (although they are not) misleading you on purpose to cover up their agent status. Who really wants to work for these clowns after having been screwed by them?

HELEN TEFL Network, based in Hangzhou, is an instructive example.

Thank you, Turnoi, now we are getting somewhere. Therefore, any agent or outfit which calls themselves a school, is a 'pretend school' and a pile of shit; is that some-thing you can confirm, please? What about these 'pretend schools' who farm you out to middle schools; should one work for one? I would say yes, but just want to know what you think?