I feel we are pretty good at differentiating between an employee of the school providing their general view of the school (justifiably negative) and a person invested in the school who is going to try and deflect negative reviews. Every now and then someone comes on here talking about a highly criticized training center in a strangely positive light. By then we know its the DOS or a Chinese employee told by the boss to do so.

I don't feel there is a danger in fake posts giving fake schools a good name and thus tricking teachers to go there. The BS is far too easy to smell out. I feel there is more of a danger of the conversations on this website getting too carried away and potential teachers not taking these warnings seriously.

I worked at a school as I said before that was highly criticized on here. When new teachers would arrive I would ask them, did you read about this school online? They said yea. I said so why did you even come here then. They said all the people online sounded pretty crazy and we couldn't take their reviews seriously.

My issue is there are truly awful schools out there and the warnings should be taken seriously. However there is far too much emotion, hatred, and bias by the people who use this site regularly to allow those warnings to be taken seriously. I feel bad for the guy asking general questions on a school he might find 2 or 3 legitimate opinions, but he has to dig through 40 posts of old fogies on here ranting about their own opinions.

My school was definately NOT somewhere people should be going to work at, and I left. However, I feel people don't pay attention to the warning signs since certain individuals put up so much smoke and garbage on this website that it is hard for potential teachers to see through the smoke.

When it gets to the point where every school a person is researching comes up with horrible reviews they start thinking, oh I guess this is just normal. Unfortunately they take a chance and end up at schools that should have been avoided.

REMINDER DO NOT POST ON HERE TO COMMENT ON YOUR OPINION OF TRAINING CENTERS. I WANT TO DISCUSS HOW WE CAN HELP TEACHERS AND HOW WE CAN AFFECT BAD SCHOOLS. THE OTHER TWO JOKERS ONE HERE CLEARLY DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THAT.