Right I can tell you straight about King's English for kids Tianjin because me and my partner used to work for them!

Let me give you the facts. DONT WORK FOR KING'S!!!

King's say they have a friendly working environment in their schools, an easy schedule of 25 teaching hours with no office hours and foreign management. All of these are false.

There is one foreign manager for the entire company. He's an ultra arrogant pom guy called J[edited] P[edited]. You will probably talk to him in your interview and when you arrive but you will NEVER see him after that. Each branch of King's English has a chinese principal and academic manager who have no sympathy with you at all. You only have a couple of foreign teachers per centre so you hardly ever see other foreign staff.

The schedule at King's is really bad. Teachers work weekday evenings then on saturday and sunday for 12 HOURS and teaching up to 5 classes! Much more than your contract says. You only teach a regular english class half of the time. The other half is spent doing demo classes with 20 kids and their parents. Most of the time these kids are between 2 and 4 years old. The english classes have mostly 2 3 and 4 years old but you also have to teach maths and science to 5+ year olds using a really bad curriculum. So basically it's just a complete nightmare to teach at King's! The chinese staff and the rest of the school don't care about their students at all, it's just about getting money. Plus if you have a sick day it's unpaid and they take about 10% of your salary for that month. They only give you time off in the chinese holidays so no vacation at all.

With Tianjin- it's not bad but it's expensive to live there and the people are not as friendly as other parts of China because they are all in the city to do business and make a quick buck. If you want to see real chinese culture you need to go somewhere else for that!