Chengdu CT
- 2010-02-19
It sounds like you will only be working part time or temporarily for them. My advice is ask for your money up front. If they won't agree take a walk and find something else.
I recently meet some teachers from Beijing. They had the usual FT stories and complaints, but from what they said most teachers there (part time and temps are demanding payment in advance due to the large number of people that have been stiffed.
gkertgl
- 2010-01-13
I have been contacted by Witty to "fill in" when their full time teacher isn't available. Should I be worried?
Anyway, I've been in Tianjin for a while and I still haven't seen a nice school (that being the proper name). Mostly, my impression is that the Chinese have understood that it is a good business to earn money so they open a lot of schools, but then they don't know how to run them and certainly don't have the same school standards as in Europe (but, I mean, WHAT in China has the same standards than in Europe????). I'm sure you all have a lot of anecdotes like me...
All the criticism about the school looks to me pretty in line with how things work in China: you work many hours (referring to the 8 without a break), have no holidays (I was once offered a contract where I had 6 DAYS of holidays a year...thought that was a joke), and generally things are done badly and not carefully.