Before you start criticizing and running your mouth off on others, why don't you sit back and think about the fact that there are people in this world who know more than you when it comes to certain parts of culture, language, and business. I have said some things like giving choice words to people who slander and degrade teachers who have had a bad experience. For example I haven't worked at EF but I have know plenty of people who have and they have almost nothing good to say about the place except for a few students they may miss. EF and people who have worked there have repeatedly come onto these forums and tried to bash people who criticize these businesses masquerading as educational facilities. As far as I'm concerned it's these types of people who start the arguments consistently and bring it on themselves and the world to see what kinds of goons they really are. If there is not even a right for people to talk about the shytty world of ESL education in china and the world in general what rights would we as teachers have left?

Hi Dragonized,

I'm trying my best not to offend anyone, or 'run my mouth off on others' - in fact, I'm the one who is being personally insulted by people I have never met.

This is the last post that I'm going to put on this site. It just seems impossible to write anything positive about the school I work in without a torrent of abuse and negative comments by people like you. Whatever your opinion is, and however you formed this opinion in the first place, the fact is:

This thread started a long time ago, with one guy asking about a specific school. The only positive replies about the school have been written by people who work here.

But, the way things work in your world is: "If someone's saying something positive about a language training centre, they are 'grovelling weasels', liars, idiots and cheats." This isn't exercising your right to free speech - in my opinion, you're abusing that right.

It's a real shame that forums like this are subject to this kind of nonsense. Still, I know that people are smart enough to weigh up the arguments that they see on forums, and not allow them to cloud their own judgement. The best thing to do if you're looking for information about a school is to get in direct contact with teachers who currently work there. A good school will be happy to provide you with contact details of several current teachers. Then, you can really ask specific questions and find out what it's really like for yourself.

I expect that the replies to this post will be something like: "no way man.... they'll give you fake email addresses of fake people that are just GW a-holes! don't trust them! i spoke to some dudes who worked at ef, and they hated it..." It's almost comical.