Heya - I've read a lot of nasty stuff about EF on the web, and have heard a lot from traumatised teachers. Needless to say that a lot of their experiences were bad enough to make anyone think twice about joining an EF school. However, as someone has already mentioned on this board, there is a number of good EF's. I'm lucky enough to have found one of them.

EF Suzhou is probably one of the most progressive EF's I've managed to encounter during my time in China. I know it's been knocked a bit, especially by a former DoS. However, the knocking is all a bit lame, if you do ever bother getting into the finer details - just personality clashes.

As far as I am concerned this school is doing a great job, and the teachers here get looked after really well. I've rejoined them after an absence of 1 year, 2 other teachers have resigned their contracts and some others are contemplating doing the same. Yes, sometimes there are some teachers who are not happy - it comes with the brand name - but from what I've seen, most of the teachers here are quite content with the way things are done.

Anyway, thought I'd let all the moaners out there know that the devil isn't as ugly as some painters would have us believe.