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[englishgibson]

Good for ya, Rad

A rather interesting thread

I bet Beth is as accomodating as she can be....as well as as helpful

I also believe that school's been doing its best it can in this tough business

Beihai is a very attractive city due to its location, in my opinion

Kilroy I feel ya mate

Peace to Baihai, its LTC
and
cheers and beers to us

[Kilroy238]

Yeah I think we talked on the phone when I called a few weeks ago to talk to Joan.

As for the record I don't think even the worst school in China would have a problem finding new teachers. You read the boards obviously you know there are tons of sob stories like mine.

[7969]

[smalls]

I apologize in advance, this is probably one of my first really negative responses, but I can no longer resist. Seems as though Kilroy keeps a fairly balanced response, but can't help but feel he thinks he came out smelling like roses, an extremely one-sided story that stinks worse than the foulest of toilets.
I had worked at LTC for quite a long time, and have kept in touch with the school, the teachers, and the students.
I have visited more than once, and his name has come up, in pretty much every area or group that I had mentioned, and never in a positive way. I will not go into detail on the negatives (why he was asked to leave), some were quite personal and should not be broadcast on Dave's, but when it is constantly brought to our attention that he was expected to do more than he could, I thought it was time to add my fifty cents. I was one of the individual's who read your original resume - which stated a hell of a lot more - in regards to experience and capabilities - then you have admitted (which, they unfortunately discovered was not very truthful). And, to go into detail about what you managed to do or not to do during your time, where could one begin, some shocking and quite a lot of purely pathetic behaviors.
I have met quite a few teachers during my time in China, the majority being teachers that took their jobs seriously and treated their students and those around them in a decent manner. And, I have had the misfortune of meeting a few who were, to put in bluntly, an embarrassment, and from what I have heard, you fit the latter. I do hope that you have better success in your current city, and more to the point, to those around you, I wish them the best and hope they can handle your behaviors and the negative attitude that seems to shroud you.
To those who think I was a bit too harsh, it would be hard to apologize. All I can say is, I invested a lot of time and effort into that school and city, and made some great friends, and cannot help but feel protective of what I left behind and to see something like this and continually ignore it (passed on a response long enough) was just too much.

[cj750]

[Kilroy238]

Mmmm well nice to know Beth puts peoples info out their for common consumption. Since you know so much whoever you are I suppose you can tell me what I out and out lied about.

Do I think my Shite doesn't stink, Hell No. Did I do something wrong? Yeah I did, I pissed beth off but she never told me what I did. Maybe I didn't kiss her arse enough or argued when I should have just said Yes Mistress thank you may I have another.

Yes I used some 10 dollar words to spruce things up. Sue me, wrong yeah, ok I am a liar sure I used words like "learning modality principles" and "active learning techniques". The experience I listed, the core of it was true. I have said this before and here we go again. Regardless of what was on there I told Beth repeatedly, time and time again in emails and phone calls that we exchanged that I had NO REAL EXPERIENCE.

When she fired me the only thing she could say to me over and over again when she tried to defend herself on acting unjustly was the fact I have a TESOL cert and 1 a month winter camp, and some private lessons I did in Cebu. So all of this stuff you say I never heard from her or from the other teachers. I had no idea there that everyone there hated me as you make it out. Funny I still exchange txts with a couple of people from there. I'll be sure to ask them. Why did EVERYONE hate me....


Some of your statements though concern me. I would very much like to know what I was accused of.

[clarke501]

Any more recent experiences to share on this school?

Noticed some negative comments on another board from 2010.