I am not very clear about the Shane English school in Wenzhou, but I well known it in aojiang. And it is the same boss. I am a TA. I can't agree with you

First about the bonus, if you are a real nice teacher, and your students will not leave, and they will introduce more students. It is not an aim you can’t achieve. Just need time. For other two teachers ,they want to have a break together at the seme time about two weeks, it means 56 classes have no teacher to teach. The students’s parents will complain and it is also such a big lost for school. If you are the boss, I think you will also not agree.. School have their system, the staff also need to consider about school’s benefits. Wenzhou Shane English School has a long history. I am a TA and work for this school more than three years. I like this school and I think the boss consider about their staff just need more communication with their staff.

So you are admitting that you are obviously more of a business than an educational institution?

There is a big difference between a 'nice' teacher and a 'good' teacher, although one can simultaneously be both. What I can tell you is, some of my better teachers from my school days (not 'favourite' teachers), were actually evil bastards!

Real schools have holidays that are taken at the same time by everybody. Obviously a training centre would hate the idea of colleagues forming stronger interpersonal relationships by partying or travelling together at the same time, as their solidarity as a team could leave the training centre management feeling quite vulnerable. Also, the sheer fact that you prioritise the demands of parents who probably know very little about education, rather than the well-being of the staff that teach your classes also indicates that your organisation prioritises the wrong issues.

Not a word was mentioned by you regarding attainment and academic success in any way, even a poor quality TC that I have previously worked at, took pride in some of its students getting good marks on the TOEFL or getting admitted into a good overseas university, rather than purely showing off the 'nice' teachers. Education is not always fun, just like real life.