I totally understand Sad American's comments here, as well as agree with the other points here too. Although i only worked part time for the evil regime headed by Robert, Dawei and Amy....i saw and heard things that would in my view, border on the dangerous, and life threatening. I will give you some examples should you be crazy, or desperate enough to work there.

There are no fire escapes.....just a jump out of the window. The school was inspected by the local fire authorities and had to put up a few signs and open up a sealed doorway to create a fire escape....problem is, they opened the doorway, but the exit leads into another building next door...and is firmly locked..."sorry your child burned to death, we couldn't find the keys"

The school is a former restaurant i believe, the stairs are narrow and steep, and during break times or class turnarounds you have parents cramming into the corridors, and pushing and shoving ( even fighting ) to claim their child....it is not safe, and many a child/adult has fallen down the stairs and more recently trampled and badly hurt. Their is no security to speak off, 2 bus drivers and a few girls manning the front desk, but theft from the teachers office is rife.

The Chinese TA in the classroom is nothing more than a classroom monitor ( with few exceptions )and even then their control over the kids is poor to say the least,i lost it once big time because i was hit by a student...the teacher did nothing except say "their just kids".....it was an SBS4 class with kids aged 14 0r 15 and they just saw it as 2 hours of messing around. Don't expect much help with translation, the students do a better job than the TA, and speaking of TA's if you are the sad person who works there, god forbid, never trust anybody there....even if they say something to you about the boss DAWEI SHA ...you are being set up and most likely get yourself fired and worse as you have read here.

Examinations.....what a joke! i am sure this happens elsewhere, but i am not used to this method, and the method is simply "CHEAT AND LIE" of course this way makes good business sense in a very competitive market, but i was told the testing format and almost pissed myself with laughter at how we must grade the kids for eg: 5 questions...maximum score = 50. so obviously 10 points per question....the score you give is based on 1.response time 2.clarity 3.grammar use 4.loud/quiet 5.full sentences and so on.....we were told that we could NOT give a student less than i think it was 42/50 or 52/60 ( depending on the test ) which means a kid if knowing this, could enter the test room ( ha ha test room, i will comr back to this point )and not open his/her mouth and pass the test!! what a wonderful way to learn.....dumb, dumb.

Test room....there isn't one. Your chosen area will be a disused classroom ( usually full of the parents ) or a chair in the forementioned narrow and dangerous corridors.So whats wrong with that? certainly when testing the younger kids...parents will stand above them or you, watching you mark the scores and putting the kid under so much pressure....i once had a child cry so much that the parent beat the kid infront of me, just for the chld to answer irrelevant questions...as mentioned with the scoring, i abandoned the test and asked my TA to have ALL the parents removed from that floor....it worked, to my cost....

I was never a victim of physical brutality, or suffered disgraceful living conditions with them, however i did get quite friendly with a few of the full time foreign teachers there, and did see their homes, they were not fit for pigs, or the cockroaches that were making a run for the door,not only filthy and poorly maintained, but also in very dangerous areas, known to have trouble.I have heard most of the stories that are documented here, whether they are true or not..who knows? but from my experience of them i would say its highly likely that they are.