CURRENT teachers? No, admittedly not. It's funny...everyone I ever knew who worked there (and there were a LOT of these) tended to leave as quickly as humanly possible, making it difficult to speak to "current" teachers. I guess I could have taxied out there and hunted some new ones down...but it's just so terribly far out there and back, you know? ;-{)

RECENT teachers? Yeah. Hell, yeah. Several.

It's POSSIBLE that somehow, after years of perpetrating horrors, within the last couple of months SIFLIS has inexplicably, miraculously, suddenly, cleaned up its act and become a model workplace.

It's POSSIBLE that winged monkeys might come flying up out of my butt, too, but this is about equally unlikely, really.

It's much more LIKELY that this gas-passage over "speaking to current teachers" is just another desperate move to stave off a truth that's finally circling back to bite this school squarely on its spotty, malodorous, pervert-despoiled derriere. Not certain, to be sure, but the possibility do exist.

BTW, I didn't come up with the "SIFLIS" appellation. It's been lurking around Suzhou for much longer than myself. I'm just passing on the good word. ;-{)

Also: I don't have an "agenda" here, other than an honest desire to help keep people out of potentially bad situations...a desire that I hope can be attested to by reading over the publicly-accessible parts of my website. I DID opine on SIFLIS- negatively- on my own site some years ago, and it lay there quietly for a long time. It came up again on the Saloon only when a couple of our newer members posted, asking about it...and I did respond to those queries, as have some others. I am happy to report that all the members asking the questions decided to pass on working at SIFLIS.
As for the discussions here, they weren't my doing. I didn't come in until late in the game.

I would submit that, given the history, if SIFLIS wants to become SFLS again, they're going to have to earn it by fixing at least the worst of the problems, and keeping things that way a while. Simply squealing "OK, we were weasels yesterday, sure, but everything is just fine today! Really! Trust us!" isn't going to cut it.

Raoul
"He exists...and he has a website!"