huijiateacher
- 2017-06-22
You can find a recent review from 2017 here:
beijinghuijiaprivateschoolreview.wordpress.com/
Former FT in China
- 2016-11-11
[edited] is a missionary [edited] Beware!
Former FT in China
- 2016-11-11
I am a first year teacher at Huijia Private School, but I have 15 years of experience in education. If I had based my decision on accepting my offer to teach here solely on outdated online reviews of the school, I would have never stepped foot on campus here. In so doing I would have missed out on a great opportunity to impact young lives and at the same time be paid a great salary with good benefits.
I have taught at several schools during my education career, and I realize that there is no perfect place. If I found the "perfect" school and decided to teach there, I would certainly mess it up because I am not perfect. Are there sometimes frustrations here at Huijia? Certainly. There are several thousand students, a University, a huge staff both foreign and Chinese, and a massive campus here and sometimes things fall through the cracks. Is the school located in a rather isolated section of Beijing? No doubt. Changping District is one of the smaller districts in Beijing. The positives here, however, greatly outnumber the negatives.
I have already mentioned the salary here. While trying to decide where to teach, I had around 20 contracts that were offered to me. The salary at Huijia was by far the most attractive. We also have our airfare here paid for one roundtrip ticket each year, are provided health insurance, are given a daily meal allowance, and can earn a bonus of an entire month's salary at year's end.
I taught before in Southern China and can say by personal experience that the apartment provided to foreign teachers is very comfortable, especially compared to many that foreign teachers are given in other Chinese schools. We have a separate kitchen/dining area, a spacious bedroom with a lot of closet space,and a huge, western style bathroom. We enjoy unlimited hot water with great water pressure. I mention these details because often this is not the case.
The campus here is like a mini-city. We have 4 canteens with different types of food available, numerous small stores with a great variety of items, a barber shop, a and dry cleaners. We have access to 4 gymnasiums, allowing us to swim in a huge pool, play basketball, volleyball, or badminton, or work out in a nice fitness center. The new ice hockey rink is almost complete which will allow us to ice skate.
Our classrooms are very modern, allowing us access to the latest teaching technologies. I use a lot of multi-media and my former school was not equipped for this. I understand that there have been issues in the past related to the quality of education, but I am very impressed with the new leadership in the high school. They have a vision and a plan to see it accomplished.
I mentioned the school's location. It would be nice if the heart of Beijing were closer to us, but the subway system allows us to travel anywhere in the city. Many teachers use weekends to visit there.
I don't know anything about the HR staff in the past, but I do know that the current HR rep who works directly with the foreign teachers is incredible. He is well-loved by the FT's here and goes the extra mile to help us. He plans monthly trips to take us to Western stores so that we can get the things that we need. He always makes himself available to help us.
Is Huijia a perfect place? Far from it. Is is a good place to teach for teachers who love what they do and want to make a difference in the lives of youth? No doubt about it!
I would be glad to personally talk to anyone considering teaching here.
Yep, I am also an experienced educator, not one like you -seeking the highest pay obtainable, but a teacher of considerable teaching experience throughout China who seeks fair pay for a very very very stress-free job. With regard to that, can you please inform me what is expected of foreign teachers at your employer's private school(s) as regards students' assessments, continuous or otherwise, end-of-term (oral or other) exams, if any!
You see, there are public sector educational establishments in China where one can have an absolute sinecure of a job as an FT with virtually no accountablilty at all, no exams/tests to be administeredat all, albeit one will be on lesser pay of course, but some FTs are happiest in that kind of environment, even though it is probably a 'boondocks' job.
Escaping the western rat race and Beijing's air pollution is of paramount importance to some FTs here, rather than amassing more bucks, but under pressure from a Chinese boss in a polluted place. Those FTs aren't looking to join a rat race. Virtually being left to their own devices at work, as it were, can be achieved in the boondocks teaching at a public school, that's the best way for such FTs!
amused
- 2016-11-11
Thank you for taking the time to give us a detailed review.
Question: do you think it is important that missionaries that take jobs in schools identify themselves to their employers as being such?
Does "seeking the salvation of our kindred and acquaintances" include students?
LivingtheDreaminBeijing
- 2016-11-10
I am a first year teacher at Huijia Private School, but I have 15 years of experience in education. If I had based my decision on accepting my offer to teach here solely on outdated online reviews of the school, I would have never stepped foot on campus here. In so doing I would have missed out on a great opportunity to impact young lives and at the same time be paid a great salary with good benefits.
I have taught at several schools during my education career, and I realize that there is no perfect place. If I found the "perfect" school and decided to teach there, I would certainly mess it up because I am not perfect. Are there sometimes frustrations here at Huijia? Certainly. There are several thousand students, a University, a huge staff both foreign and Chinese, and a massive campus here and sometimes things fall through the cracks. Is the school located in a rather isolated section of Beijing? No doubt. Changping District is one of the smaller districts in Beijing. The positives here, however, greatly outnumber the negatives.
I have already mentioned the salary here. While trying to decide where to teach, I had around 20 contracts that were offered to me. The salary at Huijia was by far the most attractive. We also have our airfare here paid for one roundtrip ticket each year, are provided health insurance, are given a daily meal allowance, and can earn a bonus of an entire month's salary at year's end.
I taught before in Southern China and can say by personal experience that the apartment provided to foreign teachers is very comfortable, especially compared to many that foreign teachers are given in other Chinese schools. We have a separate kitchen/dining area, a spacious bedroom with a lot of closet space,and a huge, western style bathroom. We enjoy unlimited hot water with great water pressure. I mention these details because often this is not the case.
The campus here is like a mini-city. We have 4 canteens with different types of food available, numerous small stores with a great variety of items, a barber shop, a and dry cleaners. We have access to 4 gymnasiums, allowing us to swim in a huge pool, play basketball, volleyball, or badminton, or work out in a nice fitness center. The new ice hockey rink is almost complete which will allow us to ice skate.
Our classrooms are very modern, allowing us access to the latest teaching technologies. I use a lot of multi-media and my former school was not equipped for this. I understand that there have been issues in the past related to the quality of education, but I am very impressed with the new leadership in the high school. They have a vision and a plan to see it accomplished.
I mentioned the school's location. It would be nice if the heart of Beijing were closer to us, but the subway system allows us to travel anywhere in the city. Many teachers use weekends to visit there.
I don't know anything about the HR staff in the past, but I do know that the current HR rep who works directly with the foreign teachers is incredible. He is well-loved by the FT's here and goes the extra mile to help us. He plans monthly trips to take us to Western stores so that we can get the things that we need. He always makes himself available to help us.
Is Huijia a perfect place? Far from it. Is is a good place to teach for teachers who love what they do and want to make a difference in the lives of youth? No doubt about it!
I would be glad to personally talk to anyone considering teaching here.
Mr. Fred
- 2015-11-23
Some of these posts make Huijia Private School in Changping look positively saintly. First the good news. Despite the myriad imbecilities living and teaching at Huijia (HJ), I generally enjoyed my two years, nine months and four days. The rent is very low or free and the apts. are not super but suffice. There is a wonderful camaraderie amongst the foreign teachers as we all live in the same building.The kids are wonderful and they just loved Mr. Fred with his big belly and endless cache of M&Ms.
However, the school is run by a Mr. Wong who only knows how to do one thing - make money. But Donald Trump is a rich man, too, so what do I know? He is pound wise and penny foolish. He will fund all sorts of lavish, and oftimes necessary, projects but then leave some minor, but important, issues left undone or insist we have these stupid silly protocols. The teacher turn over rate is horrendous. In the three years I was there we lost about one-third of the teaching staff every year. And there are reasons. They leave for much better positions or can no longer stand the idiocy that HJ has come to symbolize.
My beef, of course, is that I was fired w/o cause. Fine. I can manage. China was very good to me and, in an odd sense, HJ was good to me. Nevertheless, if you are well-qualified or have half a brain, you should consider all your options of teaching English in China before you choose HJ. I hear there are many positions that are a lot, lot better.
Just some dude.....
- 2013-07-28
Yes Floyd but with so many teachers knowing the Beijing Huijia Private School is so bad, now maybe no good teachers will ever work at the school and then the students will be stuck in a bad school that is already bad with even worse teachers. Many Chinese parents already plan to take their students away from Beijing Huijia Private School because it is so despicable. The IB school is really so sad and so very bad that maybe it is not really a school but only on some document with the owners of IB but not the same as a real school with a school permit that other countries know. They only make money and give the students a bad education. In my TOK classes the teacher is very unskilled and not clever and uncertain and the other students all think the TOK is a big laugh which it is. The foreigner assisting director is a stupid man, very bad looking, and he has a brown nose since it is in the behind of the China boss while he tries to make him happy about many things so nothing is ever fixed and no one talks about problems. Now I am going to try and go to the USA and take a GED test and then go on with studies that way. An American GED is much better than a Beijing Huijia Private School certificate. Not all Chinese at the school are so very stupid Floyd. We know that the Beijing Private School is a real shit sandwich. :(
What a shame that such shams as this "sandwich of shit" is allowed to exist!! I always laugh at this passage and the problems addressed herein. I know that I probably will get postings that will argue with me on these points in my postings. However, that's good because UNLIKE SOME OTHER NATIONS IN ASIA, I am open for debates and conversations.
As I am currently seeking an international school to teach at in China or elsewhere, I have to reflect on this and provide solutions to problems addressed here within:
1.) Have "pretend" schools like this be admonished by the Chinese authorities to if they don't solve their problems NOW, CLOSE THEIR DOORS FOR GOOD!!
2.) Have the Upper management or those in charged by held accountable for their ineptitude and terminated if they abuse their powers
3). Have these "pretend" schools be openly regulated by some POWERFUL AND INCORRUPTIBLE authorities that cannot be intimidated or undutifully influenced by the "LINDOWS"
4) Adding to #2, have these "shit sandwiches" be audited and regulated regularly with inspections and admonishments for not having done anything about
5) Have private "shit bags" like this be HARSHLY regulated and oversited (such a word??) to IMPROVE NOW or SHUT DOWN!!!
EVEN THOUGH SOME WILL ARGUE THAT ITS idealistic and not realistic, JUST GO FOR AND DO IT!!!
Thus, feel FREE TO ADD, COMMENT, B&(#*$ITC, etc about these thoughts.......After all, the future of students in China and the world lies with the education of its children, doesn't it???????
The Responder/Punisher
- 2012-12-09
Hello, Mancunian, good points. However, I merely based my observations on such posting as this one from this forum.
Yes Floyd but with so many teachers knowing the Beijing Huijia Private School is so bad, now maybe no good teachers will ever work at the school and then the students will be stuck in a bad school that is already bad with even worse teachers. Many Chinese parents already plan to take their students away from Beijing Huijia Private School because it is so despicable. The IB school is really so sad and so very bad that maybe it is not really a school but only on some document with the owners of IB but not the same as a real school with a school permit that other countries know. They only make money and give the students a bad education. In my TOK classes the teacher is very unskilled and not clever and uncertain and the other students all think the TOK is a big laugh which it is. The foreigner assisting director is a stupid man, very bad looking, and he has a brown nose since it is in the behind of the China boss while he tries to make him happy about many things so nothing is ever fixed and no one talks about problems. Now I am going to try and go to the USA and take a GED test and then go on with studies that way. An American GED is much better than a Beijing Huijia Private School certificate. Not all Chinese at the school are so very stupid Floyd. We know that the Beijing Private School is a real shit sandwich.
No offense, none taken, no worries.
Mancunian
- 2012-12-09
Sadly, as many knows, and in case you didnt know, if you are unfortunate enough to be stuck working for CrapHuijia, realize that you are, especially if you a white, blueeyed Caucasian, thats the ONLY reason you still have a job in that shithole!! HAPPY FREAKING HOLIDAYS YOU *_)#(+_#($+!!! Hahhaheehaa!! Good lucking for that snakepit with that crapass HR MGR A#+_#$!~ who lies and cheats and FE#$!SK! with YOUR MIND!! LOL!
You are making me very nervous and feel that if I walk down the road I should accost the first foreigner I see and apologise profusely for my blue eyes. Better still, i should really make a point and gouge offending optics out with a red hot poker; now that will really impress and show how guilty and sorry I feel. It is laudable enough to sympathise with non-white people who you feel are not getting a fair deal....but I feel there is something more unhealthy going on here, with this constant recourse to 'f*** bluuue eyeeed get-that-that-job-because-of-it Ft's. I will put a theory I have to you.
Joe Bloggs lives in England, he is not popular and cannot get on with his fellow Englishmen; so he applies for a job in China. Since he can't get on with his own people, how the devil will he cope with the more difficult Chinese? He copes in China ever worse, so what does he do? He look around to find other lame folk, and he supports them; he feels he has something in common with them; that's what he does, instead of making the effort to change and try and fit in. The plight of the downtrodden and the discriminated against is a good thing to take on board, but we should all try and get our own houses in order first; deal with that devil within which is making one unpopular.
This is my theory and not aimed at you personally.
The Responder/Punisher
- 2012-12-08
Sadly, as many knows, and in case you didnt know, if you are unfortunate enough to be stuck working for CrapHuijia, realize that you are, especially if you a white, blueeyed Caucasian, thats the ONLY reason you still have a job in that shithole!! HAPPY FREAKING HOLIDAYS YOU *_)#(+_#($+!!! Hahhaheehaa!! Good lucking for that snakepit with that crapass HR MGR A#+_#$!~ who lies and cheats and FE#$!SK! with YOUR MIND!! LOL!
The Responder/Punisher
- 2012-11-06
After reading all these posts, doesnt it occur to people that they need to do one thing regarding Huijia, that is, STAY WELL AWAY FROM THIS *)(_)(+!_@#()+~_#($!! Lol!!
Old Gentle Croc From Australia
- 2011-02-15
Ouch! There are some harsh words on the Internet about Huijia. I work for Huijia now. I dont work in the primary, middle, or high school. There is also a GAC here and a college on this property. These rat bastard criminal minded Chinese punks also own several so-called kindergartens in this area. Most of the Huijia bashing taking place here is dead on. I cannot speak for the primary school although I have heard a mixed review of that school, but the middle and the high school is the worst of the lot and as bad as they come. The GAC only has 20-30 students. The college does a brisk trade but offers no real education of merit for the money the students parents invest. There is also a pre-GAC here and it is a bad bucket of bolts. All in all the Beijing Huijia Private School is certainly not the end of the line as far as worst school destinations go but it is as was pointed out by several people, damn near the end of the line. If you have other options to consider you ought not to give Huijia another gram of thought. To the gentlemen posting here that will or now, perhaps wont report for work to the salt mines of Huijia my advice to you sir is to listen to the many posters here and find something else more suitable in the way of a job in Beijing. If not you will find yourself hating yourself and kicking yourself in the arse after the fact. Many of otherwise good teachers came and went in my time here and my contract ends in the summer and I wont let any grass grow under my feet when the bell tolls. I have usually been paid on time here, although most of us did not see proper vacation pay as was contracted. The housing is quite poor indeed. One bloke reported vermin running amuck in the housing units which got a chuckle until multiple rats appeared soon after. The meals are sure enough quite poorly prepared and the dirt and the filth in the food is enough to cause one to take meals elsewhere or try and prepare a meal in ones room. I have encountered hair and insect pieces in my meals at Huijia and after the 2nd time I stopped using my meal card which is only worth about 300 RMB per month which given the cost of the food does not last long anyway. The atmosphere of an incarceration facility is spot on in that the fat cat owners of this death trap seem to have recently seen fit to place big brother monitors in nearly every corner of the estate. The washing machines in the housing unit are almost always dirty, broken, or have some other failures going on. Nothing of any merit is convenient for shopping and the only night life anywhere near the estate is some dive of a bar that is rented or owned by one of the wives of some teacher from Australia. During the lunch hours and after hours the teachers go there and drink their fill and run up their tabs. Brining in a friend or girlfriend for the night involves paying off the security clowns, or sneaking them in over the back wall. If you have no life, dont value freedom, and have no other options for a job in Beijing this is not a bad place to work. You can report for teaching drunk and it is business as usual here. Whether you mark papers or not does not matter because the Chinese will just issue the students an A on all records. You neednt be certified or licensed from any particular agency since they dont have any basis for the requirement as they have no curriculum. When reading the comments about Amanda and Joy those are heavy and solid backed by numerous incidents with teaching staff that distrust both of them and rightfully so. One girl there says yes while the other girl says no. They dont have any knowledge of even basic human resource management. The school makes money off of their teachers on any chance they can get. They charge high fees at the stores on the estate. They deduct things from wages without clear reasons.
You must pay for your room on the estate and all of the fees for gas, water, electric, and related fees. Most teachers rent apartments that they escape to on weekends in Beijing because by the time that Friday comes around people have had their fill of oppression, abuse, lies, and totally unprofessional operations that make little or no sense. The showers in the rooms are on some kind of timers and if you dont shower spot on schedule the water is too cold to bathe in. The in room heating is a failure. The soot from the coal smoke stacks does indeed enter rooms and it makes everything dirty and greasy. The medical clinic on the estate is not capable of doing anything more than handing out a band aid or perhaps a sack of Chinese traditional flu tea. They are spending good sums of money on many insignificant projects around the estate such as building a new basketball court while the classrooms fall apart at the seams and the teachers do not have proper texts for teaching. The center piece or focal point for most of the school media releases shows the presidents home which looks like an old American plantation home from the southern parts of the USA. That is most likely because he views the teachers much like his human resources ladies do and that is that the teachers are a bunch of [edited] picking cotton. That is certainly most of us here are treated. At my age I suppose I cannot be too picky and truth be told I am glad to have a job and I do enjoy the art of teaching but I have suffered greatly here and my experience overall at the Beijing Huijia Private School has not been very good. If I were grading them in all areas I would grade them with a D.
God bless you all for all that you do for your students. Just dont do it at the Beijing Huijia Private School unless you simply have no other employment options in China and in a nation so big that is hard to imagine.
Horse Warrior Mongolia Proud
- 2011-02-14
I am a legal guardian for 2 boys from Mongolia. We live in Beijing. Almost all of the Mongolian students that reside here in Beijing know that the Beijing Huijia Private School is poorly run and does not hire licensed teachers. Mongolian students at that school are harassed, neglected, cheated, and alienated all of the time. Many of the Chinese students at the school cause conflicts with Mongolian students. We do not put students there due to the many problems the school causes but does not mend. Mongolians come here to China for learn Chinese and to make ready for better education abroad later on in their lives. The Beijing Huijia Private School does not do anything except collect high fees and ruin lives of younger people. If the teachers that read about these things did something to improve such bad schools in China or if the Chinese government took swift action on such troublesome schools, Mongolian students would have a better chance at education in China. Instead they are forced to attend other schools which are much more expensive but at least they get a real education. The Beijing Huijia Private School does not bother to help students from Mongolia. Instead they are left to fend for themselves while learning nothing as the Chinese faculty and some students snicker at them with scornful faces and sharp tongues. The people of Mongolia know about the school and so does the Mongolian Embassy. Soon they will have no Mongolian students and maybe no other students too.
Helen
- 2011-02-14
Robert,
Huijia postings on Dave's ESL date back a few years in one of the teachers' forums. I don't think that there is anything sudden about postings on this forum, rather, it is a continuation of more of the same. I saw a recent posting on Dave's ESL about someone else that was recently sucked into an interview and they jerked him around and he got smart and left. I did not work at Huijia but I do know people that work there now and they all dislike it. I teach at a public school not far from Huijia and I don't hear anything good about the school, but I have heard many bad things about the school. The students there are violent, combative, disrespectful and have chips on their shoulders. They are poorly motivated for learning. I don't know what they promised you for wages, but most certified teachers earn double what Huijia pays in the Beijing area. There is no curriculum there at all and I am 100% positive of that. If I were you I would keep looking and take my balls and bats and go elsewhere because working at the school would not be in your best interest. Even the local black taxi drivers can tell you not to work there if you speak Chinese and I do. My friends work in the IB high school. When I asked them about Diana I was told that she works in the middle school and she is a witch and a liar. No one likes her there at all. I was also told that 90% of the troubled students are in the middle school so if you are working there you would be in a miserable situation. Quit before you arrive. I don't know what Web site anyone is talking about on here because I went to the school Web page on Google and it is not online. It is hard for me to trust any school that cannot maintain their own Web site. Hundreds of postings spanning several major teacher sites and a number of years cannot all be wrong.
The Standard
- 2011-02-14
I am also a teacher. I spoke with Amanda on Skype as my post stated and she was full of BS. I did some research and found many postings online about the school some of which are quite old, some are new, and some are a few months old. No school Web site? A ton of bad posts from students, current and past teachers, and people that know current teachers? Dave's has some teacher complaining about how Amanda stood him up and left him in the middle of nothing waiting for a company driver that never showed up. Why on earth would you invest in a new teaching role without first going to the school to examine the situation? The good natured blood that most teachers have ends up getting them in trouble in China. The teachers just want to help students and the schools just want to make money and they don't care who gets hurt as long as they get their loot. I asked Amanda and Joy to fax me a copy of the current curriculum or email it to me. They could not produce it.
Here is one of many posts about the school. This is from Dave's ESL. http://forums.eslcafe.com/job/viewtopic.php?t=86410
I have read worse posts than this, but it is a clear sign that Huijia does not care about their teaching staff.
Robert
- 2011-02-13
My e-mail:
What is going on? All these posts all of a sudden showed up on the internet! As you can see by the posting dates, they were not there last month! What is going on? I'm supposed to come there next week and I assumed I was coming to an excellent school! I went and got clothes with a school logo and bought a lot of baseball equipment to work with the students, then all of a sudden, all this stuff is on the internet! Can you please get back to me and explain these comments that are made in these posts! Is this a large prank to discredit Huijia or are these issues indeed fact! I am a professional teacher and would find the situations described in the blogs intolerable! I work with "students" that want to learn and appreciate their education and are working towards their higher education possibly in North America or Europe. What I find in these blogs is disgusting to me!
Please get back to me as soon as you can so I can make my decision. One of the blogs says there is NO CURRICULUM, yet Diane sent me an example of the curriculum she wants me to teach. Does this curriculum actually exist as the entries in the blogs below say they do not.
I have been eagerly awaiting my departure to come to a Huijia which when I researched it found NO bad information on it. Now, with only 7 days before departure, the internet is awash with information that makes the school look absolutely terrible!
Their response:
Dear Robert,
I had a look at the website you mentioned. Our school was set up in 1993 and grew up every year. Can you imagine there are no bad comments at all? Even there are a group of peoples says some bad words to the best presidents. You cant satisfy everybody.
About the second website, Ive never heard that before. I came by my office tonight to see whether there is some important mails. Tomorrow is our working time after China Spring Festival. I will confirm and get comments back to you then.
The Standard Package
- 2011-02-11
Many weeks ago I had an interview with Amanda Chen on Skype. I am from the USA and I am a licensed American teacher K6 - K12. I have also had some initial contact with a woman named Joy Yu, both of which are employed as human resource agents or clerks with the Beijing Huijia Private School or the Huijia Group of scam artists. I found my conversation with Amanda Chen to be highly circumspect on numerous questions as she did not look at the camera, and she kept looking over to her right side and anytime someone came within the camera range she bent downwards as if she were trying to hide, or not be heard during her conversations with me. Her eyes kept darting around and looking up and toward her right side as if someone was standing near her or something. When I asked about an apartment or a room she contradicted herself and her stories did not match what Joy Yu told me on at least 7 major items to include: Teaching hours, wages, housing, contract duration, subjects I would teach, an exact school on site where I would be assigned, curriculum, and contacting other teachers for references. She changed her story on salary 3 times over a few days and during the Skype discussion she was obviously lying right to my face on cam. I was extremely lucky that through some level of pre-texting I was able to call the school and speak with a teacher there who told me not to take any job and not to believe anything that anyone at the HR office told me. She subsequently sent me an email and she gave me the low down on the reality of life at the Beijing Huijia Private School and it once I read her email the game was over for Amanda Chen and Joy Yu and their obviously outrageous lies. I feel sorry for people that need to lie like they do in order to hire teachers. But I am not a person to take lightly the job of teaching and when I sign a contract it had better be based on 100% informed decision making and certainly so in a country such as China. I also emailed a few other actual international schools and not the pretend Beijing Huijia Private School and asked questions just like I did when I interviewed with the Beijing Huijia Private School. All of them gave me answers while the liars at Huijia could not even come up with a firm wage to pay me. I am seriously thankful for this Web site and this forum. I am equally thankful that I did not send any of my personal documents to those two criminal con artists because I would seriously wonder what they would do with them. This Web site has most likely saved thousands of teachers from being victims and in this case, this Web site saved me from being a victim of the Beijing Huijia Private School and for that I say thank God! Do not accept anything that the Beijing Huijia Private School staff try and tell you concerning the "standard package". There is no such thing. The only thing that may be "standard" about the Beijing Huijia Private School is misrepresentation, lies, and more lies.
Let me say again, THANK YOU to the owner of this Web site for safeguarding FT's because it is people like you that help to expose the fraud, scandal, and the dirt that so many of these badly run chop shops like the Beijing Huijia Private School try and pull on good-hearted FT's that are just trying to earn a living honestly. Those people at the Beijing Huijia Private School should be ashamed of themselves.
DittoBrother
- 2011-02-10
I worked there in 2009-2010. It was outrageously below standard for an international school. Of course the reality is, it is a Chinese school wearing the label of an international school. The words of wisdom that you can take away from the postings in this forum about the Beijing Huijia Private School are simple. Just say no!
Ditto to you all brothers and sisters!
Floyd
- 2011-02-09
Hello Kitty,
The Beijing Huijia Private School is a nightmare from hell and no self-respecting Chinese student, or any international student, nor their families ought to be caught dead at that school. The same is true for their teaching staff, assuming that they have even one with a valid license that can be verified. Amanda Chen, and that entire lying, cheating, ongoing scandal of a criminal enterprise that they call a school is in dire straits financially because of poor quality management, leadership, corruption, and a focus on money which is used for more corrupt and illegal organizations in China. If I were an employee or a student at the school I would fear for immediate life and safety with all of the mafia connected families that have students there because once they catch wind of how they've been taken, someone will go in there and clean house. That bunch of nutcases and criminals in suits will fall and like most of the crap schools in China, no one will care when it all goes tumbling down, or when they find people in the trunks of cars. Ask anyone in the Russian district of Beijing about the school and some of their business dealings. They owe more money to more people than the US owes to China or nearly so. Better yet, call the Australian Embassy and ask about the school for your own children.
Hello Kitty
- 2011-02-08
Yes Floyd but with so many teachers knowing the Beijing Huijia Private School is so bad, now maybe no good teachers will ever work at the school and then the students will be stuck in a bad school that is already bad with even worse teachers. Many Chinese parents already plan to take their students away from Beijing Huijia Private School because it is so despicable. The IB school is really so sad and so very bad that maybe it is not really a school but only on some document with the owners of IB but not the same as a real school with a school permit that other countries know. They only make money and give the students a bad education. In my TOK classes the teacher is very unskilled and not clever and uncertain and the other students all think the TOK is a big laugh which it is. The foreigner assisting director is a stupid man, very bad looking, and he has a brown nose since it is in the behind of the China boss while he tries to make him happy about many things so nothing is ever fixed and no one talks about problems. Now I am going to try and go to the USA and take a GED test and then go on with studies that way. An American GED is much better than a Beijing Huijia Private School certificate. Not all Chinese at the school are so very stupid Floyd. We know that the Beijing Private School is a real shit sandwich. 
Floyd
- 2011-02-05
I was told by a well-known recruiter that if I would have accepted a job at the Beijing Huijia Private School as a teacher that I might as well forget a career in education. That's one fine way of ruining your future in China with a blemish on your employment history like that. Anyone that has any respect at all for the teaching profession would never work for Huijia and that's a fact. Once someone sees that on your resume you might as well pack it in and go back home. I am a licensed Canadian teacher and I have lived in China for 11-years. I would eat dog fecal matter before working for Huijia. Their reputation stinks across the globe and anyone that has ever worked for them knows better.
Floyd from Canada
Guss
- 2011-02-05
My GF went to interview there and she said the place was being run like some kind of a concentration camp in 2009. When she asked about a curriculum they did not answer her. How can a school run or even get a license without a curriculum that has been approved by some board? What a joke. I know a dude from Canada that is there now and he plans to leave. No FT should ever accept working for such Chinese owned rubbish. Let the crocks lose and let them consume wholeheartedly.
Mad Hatter
- 2011-02-02
Had to laugh at the comments about Huijia on here. Liz, there are most likely 1-2 "good teachers" at the school but out of the 70-80 that they employ, across their labyrinth of illegal businesses in Beijing, most of them are short of the talent and the experience needed to teach professionally. The pupils at that bogus school are being deceived as is anyone naive enough to work there. The cat was let out of the bag many moons ago about the shameless atrocity doing business under the name of Beijing Huijia Private School. That entire group is an old retired fart from Changping Public Schools, if he is not already deceased, and his offspring running the school, namely his son and daughter. The daughter is or was living in Australia or NZ and she was trying her hand as a school manager. The son runs a bunch of failed businesses that he funds using cash from the schools to keep them afloat. They don't adequately compensate their people and most of them just get the proverbial shaft in the end. I am not sure who the big fat pig is that you mentioned but your posting rings 99.9% true otherwise. My husband and I have three kids and we run a business near their college. 1 of our employees has a pupil enrolled there in the primary school and that pupil will leave before middle school. Most of the nearby residents and some of our suppliers and their children have shared their tales of woe from that school. It does look sort of like a jail or a prison from the road. One of our new employees from Germany was asking me about schools for their child and we were talking about the school today. I tried to find their Web site but it looks as if they closed it all down. Maybe they are trying to save money for some more walls, guards, and security cameras.
Liz
- 2011-02-01
Turnoi, you could be right. Maybe now they have some better teachers, but it is unlikely that any one of them would stay there once they got a whiff of the dragon's buttocks. I know 2 people working there now and they hate it. I was there in 2003. I went to the school for a recent Christmas party and I saw some old faces and some new faces. The people that own the school are criminals by any definition. The human resource people are paid to lie and bring in big fish so that they can boast a high-level of quality staff. Once those teachers smell the dragon's buttocks, or they ask questions, they're gone. I spoke with a woman that works there now a few nights ago and she told me numerous war stories about the place and those stories are similar to my own personal and first hand experiences from 2003. Nothing changes except the faces. Tragic it is that the bad faces don't get replaced with good faces and the good faces that go there don't smile for very long. No one would work for a bad school and remain there unless they had no other options or skeletons in the closet. It does not matter who is or who is not a good teacher at the school while the school is controlled by people that don't care about education but rather making money. Huijia is just another skid mark on China's society.