For years, the school promised to paint the rooms several times but never has. All of the rooms badly needed work. Since teacher turnover is so high, they never follow through on promises. Over 20 teachers in two years. (For four or five spots)

Grace Chen Lei regularly "tests" teachers to see if they will take a day or two less in pay. If you don't object, she'll just cheat you another way and more frequently. Teachers work overtime or six straight days including Sunday, expecting to be paid overtime, only to be told that they are compensated as they did not work on a national holiday (tomb sweeping day). You only find out about the policy on payday, when you are expected to appear at Grace's office to collect your pay "in cash". So either accept the cash minus one or two days' pay, or raise a stink and risk a bad review at the end of your time there.

The local government is starting to notice. A teacher brought his family here, at the encouragement of Grace, and once here she has declined to extend his contract beyond an additional six weeks. The Visa office called the school and asked why a foreign teacher was in his office, all by himself without a Chinese staff member to provide assistance, all to go through the trouble of doing paperwork for six weeks. The visa guy told the teacher that this was really weird and not normal in China.

If the school asks you to come here and work on a tourist visa. Do not.