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For Nick - 2006-06-28

This school might be new, but it's in terrible shape. The location is ghetto. You can't go outside the property without getting robbed. Even the students beg you for money. The students are all braindead. They're the worst I've ever met.
The textbooks they give you to use in class are poor in quality. The Chinese teachers there cannot speak English or communicate efficiently with the foreign staff. They (the Chinese English teachers) behave badly and they don't assist you in class as the ads say.
You won't want to eat the cafeteria food. Everyday it's exactly the same mush. Same stringy green vegetable swimming in oil, pork and a soggy clump of rice.
The rules are nonsense. They ask you to do a lot of extra work that matters to no one and if you don't do it, they deduct it from your pay. They're always coming up with new rules to take money out of your earnings.
Your "boss" is only given that title because he is the son of one of the investors. This guy, Nick Liao, is a 20 year old obese punk who lives with his dad and got his girlfriend pregnant so he had to marry her. He's a miserable person with a foul mouth who lashes out and curses the foreign teachers openly. He doesn't have an education beyond high school. He asks the foreign teachers to live in Dongguan where he thinks it's safer, but it isn't. Plus, it's an hour away and they say they provide transportation, but they don't. First you might have to find a way to get to it by walking or taking an additional bus. You have to wake up ridiculousy early. They don't provide any benefits like airfare or visa or paid holidays.
You have to climb up and down 5 flights of stairs all day long. The classrooms have no air conditioning and no heat.
This school has a difficult time finding any applicant, so if you apply, you'll be offered the job. There is no competition. Nobody wants to work there. I think you can see why!

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Straits Newman/Kidcastle Shijie Dongguan - ESL school review -- For Nick -- 2006-06-28
Re: Straits Newman/Kidcastle Shijie Dongguan - ESL school review -- Janelle -- 2010-05-29
Re: Straits Newman/Kidcastle Shijie Dongguan - ESL school review -- Andrew -- 2008-08-26
Re: Straits Newman/Kidcastle Shijie Dongguan - ESL school review -- Hi Nick -- 2008-09-21
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