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#1 Parent Matthew Windall - 2018-10-18
Re looking for suggestions about building a website to display schools' comments

Hey! Here's a website that has hundreds of schools and reviews from teachers. It's a lot like what you described. Basically you search for your school, if it's in the system you can read the reviews and look at pictures, if it's not you can add your school by writing a review for it!

And the whole point is to separate wheat from chaff when it comes to ESL Schools in China, and also to facilitate hiring but mainly to put information on schools out there so when candidates get offers they can look up the schools.

https://www.secondlanguage.world

#2 Parent FTinPRC&em - 2018-10-19
Re looking for suggestions about building a website to display schools' comments

There are NO GOOD SCHOOLS anywhere in China, private, or public. Its all a huge scam.

It is meaningless to contest what qualifies as a 'good school'. Institutions are corrupt by nature. Harvard's legacy of cherry picking of elite kids has generated an 'endowment' of $37 billion. Is that good or bad in a country with a segregated school system where minority urban students parade through metal detectors?
The question for readers of this site is: should foreign nationals teach in China?
My decade of experience teaching in five universities in four provinces has not been without struggle, but it has been a gratifying and enlightening experience.
If one's focus is income and quality of life, teaching in China is a poor choice. If your goal is to expand your personal experiences to include interaction with respectful diligent foreign students in a country experiencing rapid transformative growth, China rocks.

#3 Parent RoryM - 2018-10-23
Re looking for suggestions about building a website to display schools' comments

It seems the powers at be have finally blocked this website in China. It is now only accessible via VPN.

Obviously they do monitor it....

#4 Parent The Shadow Knows - 2018-10-13
Re looking for suggestions about building a website to display schools' comments

Teachers are already using this FOREIGN owned and operated board to talk about bullshit schools and fraudsters. The last thing we need or want is a Chinese platform since it is most likely going to be government controlled by the Ministry of State Security or corrupt school owners.

Here's the deal Jun.

There are NO GOOD SCHOOLS anywhere in China, private, or public. Its all a huge scam.
Your spy agencies are being hung out to dry one agent at a time and your corrupt spooks lurking in American colleges are being detected, and arrested.

Now as for you black market bastards out here selling good paper fro hard-working licensed professionals, your asses will be hung out to dry soon as well.

If you are an American "teacher" that cannot hold a job at Wal-Mart and are working as a "teacher" in China helping these rat bastard Communists to infiltrate the USA, your asses are cooked too.

Its just a matter of time kiddies.

Here is a suggestion.
Build a Web site that lists the photos, names, addresses, and telephone numbers of all ILLEGAL Chinese now in the USA and who may also be working for Ministry of State Security.

Have a nice day Jun.
Say hi to your boss in Ministry of State Security.

#5 Parent John O’Shei - 2018-10-16
Re looking for suggestions about building a website to display schools' comments

Consider looking into publicly available records on Chinese websites regarding legal action taken against employers. They can lie on English language websites knowing that the vast majority of teachers will not be able to find out these details. A complaint on a message board can easily be disputed, a lawsuit verdict is much harder to question.

Jun - 2018-10-12
looking for suggestions about building a website to display schools' comments

We are a recruiting agency to place ESL teachers in Chinese schools ,we have found that some schools are dishonest and always trying to play trick with foreign teachers and recruiting agencies .

We try to place teachers in proper schools and will do some research online before we cooperate with a school .But what we can find online is if a school (most are language school /training centers) is registered and if the school has any disputes record .It's kind of useful to help us avoid cooperation with unregistered schools but usually that's all we can find .

We are thinking to build a website so that teachers can share their working experience and comments about language schools to help teachers find the right job .

Don't know if it will work ,because there're many small training centers which only hire a couple foreign teachers ,there might not enough data can be collected . if anyone have any suggestions ,please let me know .
Thanks.

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