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[geaaronson]

I do not recall whether I have already posted on this message thread or not, and am too lazy to go through all of them. Besides, I want to say what I may have said before as it needs to be said again.
You should be checking with www.teflwatch.org for teachers evaluations for schools. If you have had teaching experience, you really should be posting your own evaluations on that site for the benefit of all.
Having said that, let me say that there were a few schools that I interviewed with that impressed me but I did not work for on account of scheduling conflicts. The first is Kiosk International. The academic coordinator, Erin, who I thought would be a good person to work for. Their schools was somewhere in the Condessa area or nearby.
A second was a recruiter named Dauber. She is a Mexican with impeccable English skills whose office/school was off Revolution. Her business has her family name.
Aside from those two there were not many that really impressed me. I was interviewed out in SantaFe by a chain that wanted me to teach TOEFL classes in the a.m.s for 70 pesos, and when I gagged on that, he boosted the price up to 100 per hour. I was not going to accept anything less than 135 for that gig.
I had my second interview ever here in DF with a starched down, white shirt and tie Mexican english teacher who refused to talk to me when I showed up for the interview in a guyaberra shirt.
I had my first interview ever with a woman whose school did not dispense textbooks to the students and she wanted me to teach by her methodogy for 80 pesos an hour, only two hours per week.
I[ve been given addresses to schools that don[t exist. No, the school existed I am sure, the address was incorrect.
The stories go on an on. Some of the people were extremely ridiculous and unprofessional. One recruiter whose name was Christian insisted that I come to an appointment I had told him was inconvenient as I was teaching at that hour elsewhwere in the city, I emailed him back that if he did not give me better directions and change the hour of the interview, he would be better off hiring someone else. His retort was FUK U 2 by email, to which I complimented him for being such a good Christian.
It[s been interesting and amusing. Quite enough fodder for a scandalous book.

[Oreen Scott]

I can imagine myself in an identical situation.

Life does have its twits and turns, doesn't it?

And yes, the stories of our lives make great fodder for a book. Besides bios are a hot ticket right now.

I say, go for it!

[Phil_K]

[GueroPaz]

I doubt that one could write an entire novel about teaching EFL, but it would make for some good chapters. In my unpublished double novel about Chiapas and Thailand, about ten chapters cover teaching EFL in N. Thailand. Nothing about EFL in Mexico, though.Come to think of it, nothing involves agencies. The school in the remotest part of the country is so glad to get its first native speaker (who is the world's most eloquent speaker of English, in disguise) that they treat him with respect.

TEFLWatch needs your input, both negative and positive, about schools where you have worked. Melee has already said nice things about her school there.

[Oreen Scott]

"twits and turns," Freudian slip or not, it was very funny, er I mean punny.

[wildchild]

pfunny

[Dragonlady]

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[glover]

Crit 840 - did you tire of Queretaro, or just wanted a different school/new city? Just asking cause I was in Queretaro a couple weeks ago and thought it looked like it might be a nice town for living/teaching. . . might be interested..