EF Hater ,
You're kidding me right ? Are you really so childish that the best you can come up with as a retort is a juvenile ad hominem that would be mocked for it's lack of creativity by 2nd grade children ? That's impressive , it really is . Let me guess though ; EF fired you for what are probably perfectly legitimate reasons and due to your inability to mature prior to (or since) landing your contract , you hold your dismissal against them . Sound about right ? Well no , of course not because even if I'm dead on you'd never admit to it anyway would you ?

Englishgibson ,

Yeah , you could be right but then again , this being China , just who exactly is above suspicion of engaging in the activities you infer this particular franchise could be dabbling in ? I mean to say that we , as foreigners , don't know anything one way or the other so if their treatment of us as employees provides no indication of the owner's character then we have nothing to base any accusations on anyway . It seems to me that in that case there are no schools that any foreigner can claim are "clean" . So are we supposed to just assume that every school in China is just a front for some criminal to launder cash or something ? Well that , obviously , is unreasonable so we must do what we do with any other business and extend the benefit of the doubt . When we have a reason beyond "He's an owner of a school in China so that means he must be guilty of something." then I'll start to question my franchise owner too . I quite simply don't have any reason to suspect this right now . You could be spot on , I really don't know but that's basically the point .

In any case , all I know is that however deserved EF's reputation in China may be among foreigners , we're talking about hundreds of schools and of those , this one , at the very least , treats its foreign staff exceptionally well . As I said in my initial post , that could change and perhaps it has from the past as well but right now it's certainly the case .

Cheers and good luck