I was also a teacher employed by Expertise Education. Scott Cavanaugh is a laowai for hire, do not believe him.

We only Skype'ed with Scott before coming, but he made us several assurances about our jobs and said that our contracts supported him in this. When we got into Beijing, we found out that the only thing that was true of what Scott said was that we taught children. We asked him several questions, all of which he answered with vague generalities or directions to other employees. Short answer: Scott Cavanaugh doesn't know anything about teaching or know how to answer our questions. We didn't know about his particular profession until we had been in Beijing a few months. Essentially, local companies hire unscrupulous white people at high prices to make their company seem more professional and international. I have been to our office about 7-10 times during all sorts of hours, and I have never seen Scott there.

Expertise Education had me buy my own plane ticket here and then told me my job was nothing like what I had been told back home. I am a lucky one, I am not as angry about certain things as others. I do agree that over half of the other teachers have quit, and the company just brings in more to replace them. The company hemorrhages employees and lies to foreigners to replace them. I am sure they have some happy employees that got good schools and good apartments, but they have many more bad or angry teachers.

For the record, Expertise Education does mishandle personal documents and lies about many things that any honest person would admit to. They held my passport for two months while they "went through the process." In actuality they mishandled our visa application and wouldn't admit it.

LOOK OUT!