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blackjackoak · Joined: 25 Oct 2006 Posts: 3 Location: Dashiqiao, China

Give this school a miss! I taught there for 3 months and was treated badly. They made very unreasonable demands upon my working time and didn't pay me all my salary.

Dashiqiao is a dirty industrial city with high levels of pollution and very little entertainment. Dalian (at the south of the Liaodong Peninsula) has much more to offer and better schools.
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tw · Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 3898

blackjackoak · Joined: 25 Oct 2006 Posts: 3 Location: Dashiqiao, China

quote="blackjackoak"][b]They made very unreasonable demands upon my working time[/b] and didn't pay me all my salary.[/quote]

[color=red]Care to elaborate? [/color]

[color=blue]For example: the school twice gave me new classes with new course books at no notice at busy times when I had no preparation time. On one of these occasions (Christmas weekend), I had 7 classes finishing courses in the same weekend and was running presentations to parents in all those classes, plus a movie club on the Saturday night. It also frequently happened that I would arrive at a class to find that the size of the class had doubled without notice and many of the new students had not been provided with course books. These difficulties could easily have been averted by appropriate communication.[/color]

[quote]Dashiqiao is a dirty industrial city with high levels of pollution and very little entertainment.[/quote]

[color=red]Did you do any research on the city before accepting the position? Dirty inductrial city with high levels of pollution? That describes many, many Chinese cities. Are you here complaining about the school or the city?[/color]
[color=blue]This posting is not intended to be a complaint but a warning to any other ESL teacher who might consider teaching at this school. It was actually my second Chinese posting - I taught in Dalian before, hence my recommendation of that city as offering better facilities and a wider choice of schools; and it's much cleaner. I was recruited on the basis that the school wanted me to improve the standard of English taught by the other (all Chinese) teachers but this proved to be an empty sham - they just wanted a white face for window-dressing![/color]

[color=red]So you were close to Dandong.[/color]

[color=blue]If you consider 200km each way on the bus to be viable for a night out![/color]

Steppenwolf · Joined: 30 Jul 2006 Posts: 1769

Do you have a resident's permit in your passport secured for you by that employer???

tw · Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 3898

blackjackoak · Joined: 25 Oct 2006 Posts: 3 Location: Dashiqiao, China

tw · Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 3898

Got an e-mail from this school today. Now who should I believe? The OP, or the review here www.chinaschoolreview.net/index.php?module=reviews&func=showcontent&id=67 ?

Oh well, the salary is too low for me anyway and I do like bigger cities.

therock · Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Posts: 1266 Location: China

4000 for a private language training school, split shifts..............and on top of that you are not allowed to seek a second job..................you got to be kidding. I don't care if the management is great, this offer stinks. I wouldn't even recommend this kind of job to newbies!!!