The following is a statement of my experience while working at Beijing No. 80 High School (北京第八十中学). If you are thinking about working there or find someone named Li Dequan (李德泉) as part of any organization you have been made an offer from then you should consider working elsewhere. I was told by Director Li that I would be teaching A-level or AP classes, but was made to teach other classes despite my pointing out the lie on his part. I was not picked up from the airport, had to take a taxi, and was not reimbursed for the cost. I shipped the no criminal police report to the school using DHL but was never reimbursed upon my request. The teachers were required to participate in a “voluntary” Marzano teacher training conference and were never paid for attending the whole weekend event. The school converted my visa into a residence permit and I was told that my passport would be gone for 1 week; it was gone for 5 weeks. During a parent teacher meeting, I was censored by one of the teachers running the meeting when Kathy (Lei Shuang) refused to translate my question, “What does your son want to do with his life?” The air quality is extremely poor due to poor ventilation, abundance of dust, and formaldehyde and other volatile chemicals that are released from constant remodeling. Because of the poor air I got headaches within 1 hour of being in the building and sometimes my hands would start shaking within a few hours and other times my tongue would tingle and I would have a bad taste in my mouth from breathing the air. I was forbidden from giving college advice to students when one student did not understand my advice and complained about it. Out of the over 10 students I gave advice to, she or he was the only one complaining, and the administrators and college counselor did not like my unofficial role as college advisor even though I was working on my PhD before coming to China. All the other students I gave advice to were extremely thankful for my advice since they knew no other teacher in the school is as honest and resourceful as I am in that regard. One student, in his college essay, wrote that I was the inspiration for him wanting to study Engineering Physics (I was skeptical when I first read it, but was deeply touched afterwards). When I did not know much about the subjects students wanted to study in college, my friends employed in the subjects were more than glad to give their advice to the students. While on sick leave, I was fired and told I needed to leave the dormitory within a few hours. I returned all the school property and was taken to a hotel which the school paid for, but on the way there I was told that I needed to give the school over my passport such that they could cancel my residence permit. I did not hand over my passport and over 3 weeks I was repeatedly told that if I did not give my passport to the school then I would be breaking the law and may be blacklisted, if I did not cancel my residence permit with the Exit and Entry Bureau then I would be breaking the law, and finally that if I did not shorten my residence permit then the school would cancel my residence permit. They lied about it all. According to recent changes in Chinese law, employers are allowed to cancel a foreign employees residence permit if that employee is no longer working at the company; however, since I was fired illegally, the school would be violating Chinese law twice in such a case. The school promised to give me a new release letter (since the old one was false), my cancellation of FEC (foreign experts certificate), not to cancel my residence permit, and to transfer all the documents to my new employer; but, they lied about that as well. My lawyer and I finally filed a case against the school, but they have not responded to the suit. The suit includes request for payment of violations of my contract, of violations of labor law towards me, and of violation of labor law towards the Chinese government. The school has effectively prevented me from fulfilling the contract of my new employer by not giving me the documents that they are legally required to give. Thus, even if I accept the contract from my new employer, I won’t be able to provide all the documents necessary. As I wrote in the beginning, if you are thinking about working at Beijing No. 80 High School (北京第八十中学) or find someone named Li Dequan (李德泉) as part of the organization then you should consider working elsewhere. Also at the school are secretaries such as Zhang Jing/Selina (张静) and Xu Lei/Ethan, Vice Principal Li Xiaojun (李晓君), and Principal Tian Shulin (田树林) all of which you should avoid as well since they seem nice in the beginning but if they think you will expose their lies and deceit they will do everything in their power to fire you.