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[Cubism]

Wailing, thank you for the detailed survey. I continue to be shellshocked but you know about keep on keepin on. Just has to be

5 K is low, I know. But the age thing... At this late date, I don't think he'll go higher.

And Poppa, you're right: privates can be so great. Good reminder of life to come.

I've never lived in a nice place in China before, so maybe this is good after all. I asked the headhunter for the apt. photos.

Most kind of you all not to shunt me into "OP." Maybe I've become more human

[Ldblo]

Hi Cubism
I've recently finished a semester at this school and i would certainly say stay away from this place.
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Not to be confused with the Suzhou foreign language school, this school is located in the Xiangcheng District of Suzhou and is certainly an institution to AVOID AT ALL COSTS.
This school has a relatively good history as it was started by a reputable American Chinese scholar but since his retirement has been taken over by his son who is nothing more than a money grubbing, ethically challenged adolescent.The school has not continued Steve Liang's progressive and innovative methodology and rather relies on his name to promote itself with no consideration for the students who truly lose out in the end.Due to absolute incompetence and lack of ethics by the administration ,the teachers are treated as a necessary evil in order to promote enrollment and keep the cash flowing (Although this is nothing new in China).This results in constant disillusionment of teachers who leave immediately after contract completion resulting in a very high staff turnaround and thus inconsistency for the students.In my personal experience i found the administrative staff to be thoroughly incompetent and in some cases outrightly malicious.Even something as simple as a monthly schedule is constantly changed and on some occasions with no more than an hour's notice.This is extremely unprofessional but is done intentionally to keep the foreign staff on the back foot as nothing can be preplanned and contractually the school makes sure of this.The foreign staff are looked down on by the local teachers and this disrespect is witnessed by the students and filters into the attitudes we have to deal with in the classroom.The school constantly makes unsanctioned deductions from wages and even these are rarely paid consistently or on time. The school is located in an out of the way area of town and makes access to anything far from easy.Essentially this school relies on new teachers who get caught up in extremely biased contracts and i hope this review will dis-empower them.You've been warned!

[Mister Al]

Wow. You have been warned!

[wailing_imam]

I was there four years ago. Seems things have changed then. What a shame. I rather enjoyed walking around their campus.