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- 2015-03-19
I see that there has been one person bashing Wuxi Korean School on many sites in 2011-2012. The school has grown a lot since then - now in it's ninth year - and has new people in the supervisory position. Not only are all of the payments on time and regular, but the working hours are great, everyone is professional, and they have been super helpful in terms of finding a home, getting visa documents, and everything else that is required to live here.
Occasionally a classroom will have a problem with the computer or other equipment, but has two computer labs, a brand new gym, outdoor track, soccer field, basketball courts. The offices are nice. The students are pretty good in class, just they run a lot in the hallways, which seems to be commonly accepted as okay.
I can't testify about what happened in 2011 and 2012, but I would definitely recommend the school now.
Wuxi Korean School has been advertising repeatedly on this site and on other sites for teachers for the spring term, 2012.
The school has an exceptionally bad reputation for a school in Jiangsu and that is saying a lot, considering the competition it has in terms of not good schools in the province.
The school has been in-and-out of bankruptcy for most of the last 7 - 8 years. It was takeover by the province at least once when it went under and it was shut down another by the province when it went under. The campus looks good on its website and on paper but ... BUT ... B U T ...
Foreign teachers have gone unpaid quite often for months at a time until they melt away. Some claim to have not been paid at all. In terms of visa support, if you like working on a tourist visa, then this is the place for you. They will promise you everything and give you nothing except misery and financial ruin. I simply can't imagine that they have managed to sneak back into business again.The contract is meaningless and the high pay that they will promise you is meaningless because they will not deliver upon it at all.
This is an absolute avoid. Why did it ever come back to life - that is the big question ....