Comments on: So You’ve Decided To Teach ESL…What To Do Next! https://goldstarteachers.com/youve-decided-teach-eslwhat-next/ Teach English in China to young learner and adults students. ESL teaching jobs in China. Thu, 24 May 2018 08:52:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 By: Jim https://goldstarteachers.com/youve-decided-teach-eslwhat-next/#comment-291222 Thu, 10 Dec 2015 06:33:34 +0000 https://goldstarteachers.com/?p=7867#comment-291222 In reply to Kim.

Thanks for the detailed comment Kim, you made a lot of good points! Yes, I think the bottom line is there are good schools and bad schools out there and it’s important to be able to distinguish them. It is also true that the majority of comments about schools on the online are forums are negative rather than positive as happy teachers tend not to log on to a forum to tell everyone about it.

]]> By: Kim https://goldstarteachers.com/youve-decided-teach-eslwhat-next/#comment-291219 Thu, 10 Dec 2015 05:19:55 +0000 https://goldstarteachers.com/?p=7867#comment-291219 I don’t disagree with your assertion that schools honour contracts but on the other hand, foreign teachers really don’t have any protection in China. I was once teaching at a private college which was a nightmare as students never come to class. As a dedicated and professional teacher, I refused to put up with that so the college terminated my contract. On another occasion, I got a job at a language centre. I wasn’t due to start till March but in Feb, they contacted me to ask if I would start a month early as they were having a staffing crisis. I went out of my way to help them out and they repaid me by terminating my contract before it had even properly begun because I couldn’t live up to their wholly unreasonable expectations(so much for honoring contracts). There is a huge supply of white foreigners all keen to teach in China so some schools think that they don’t have to value their foreign teachers. In spite of what you may believe, there are unscrupulous schools about in China that potential teachers need to be wary of and I really don’t think the teachers are to blame. It’s NOT easy to just fly here and back, some people may have sold/rented out their homes so they’d have nowhere to live if they went home. Your visa is tied to your school, so if they don’t release you, legally they own you untill they decide to let you go. I do agree that there are some fabulous schools in China, decent folk who will treat you with respect and make sure you’re happy (I’m teaching at such a school now) but for every decent school, there is a bad one too. Caveat emptor!

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