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Beeyee
Joined: 29 May 2007
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 Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 12:48 pm Post subject: Little America |
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Hi all,
I have tried searching but cannot find much information on this chain. Does anyone have any experience of working for them? How is their curriculum? Do they have a good or bad reputation? Etc etc etc.
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 2:04 pm Post subject: |
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pocariboy73
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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If it's the Daejeon location, stay well away. Stay very very well away. Stay 100km away.
They were a BIG part of that "Banner Campaign". Together with Yang-G ELS.
Lots of nightmares about this school on the internet. I found a sample for you.
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Hi,
I came across your website through Dave's ESL
cafe. I checked out the school I use to work for -
Little America. I worked at the head school in
Manyongdong (sp) Taejon. The listing said that Little
America use to have a bad reputation but you'd heard
nothing lately. Well you decide. This is what I
posted on Dave's ESL cafe:
Avoid Taejon Little America at all costs!!
The head office/school is in Manyondong (sp)
Taejon. The man who owns the Little America name is in
charge of this school. He is the most manipulative,
childish, and dishonest person I have ever come
across. Besides my own experiences w/him (which
included him throwing a chunk of papers at my head),
many others have had horrible encounters w/him. One
poor guy was there for three weeks before going to a
different school. He lived in a cruddy basement
apartment w/no heat and no lights in late winter/early
spring. The boss kept 500 000 won from this guy for
"bills"!! He is extremely tight w/money and will lie
and cheat so he doesn't have to pay. This is getting
too long so I won't go into the other examples.
This hagwon is in charge of recruiting for the other
Little America schools. Many of the other Little
America school owners are furious w/the boss because
he promised to provide English teachers, training for
the Korean teachers, supplies, etc., which he can't
do. He is desperate for teachers right now and w/good
reason - no one wants to work for him. The Korean
teachers have an extremely high turnover rate. Many
leave because they think he is crazy. The boss is
notorious among other hagwons, English teachers, and
Korean teachers.
Now I kept my posting short but there is a lot more
that happened there. Stuff like the boss using "his"
key to go into people's apartments all the time to
"check" on the apartment (at one point he tried to
come in while I was sleeping - no knocking, wouldn't
answer when I asked who it was thank goodness I had
the bolt on). He would brag about his connections to
the ?Korean mob?, he took pride in refusing to abide
by contracts, etc. Anyways like I said there is a lot
more to tell from the English teachers and the Korean
teachers. Please let me know if you need more
information. I don't want people to have a horrible
time. I made some wonderful friends in Korea and
found it a great place. I would like to make sure
people are informed about Little America, especially
now that they are desperate and telling a lot of lies
to get people to come. Thank you. Please let me know
what I can do.
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Sounds like a great place to me  |
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Beeyee
Joined: 29 May 2007
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| Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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It was the Daejeon one i was particularly interested in actually. Not good if the previous posting is anything to go by. I was under the impression that the director there was a woman though, perhaps it has changed hands?
Anyone else have any experiences? |
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SeniorEnglish
Joined: 18 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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| There No-eun branch director is a woman. Had an interview there in March. |
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Beeyee
Joined: 29 May 2007
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| Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 11:51 pm Post subject: |
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| SeniorEnglish wrote: |
| There No-eun branch director is a woman. Had an interview there in March. |
Yes, apologies it is the No-eum branch which is of interest. Does anyone have any experience of this particular school? |
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