I have heard about Wall Street since I was teaching in China. I have also heard about the absolute OUTLANDISH prices they charge parents to send their kids there. I have heard that parents' will pay up to 20,000 rmb's per season or semester to send their children there. I guess that's where all the fancy furniture and the chairs, tables, etc. come in. That doesn't take away the QUALITY of the school, which is to mean that they don't have an education reputation that's ANY BETTER than Aston or English First. All they do is sound good. Like "Wall Street" symbolized quality in education or something lol.
Wall Street is a place where people sell stock and do the banking for the world's finances. It's a place of business, not education. This school plays on the ignorance of the parents' who only have a "tourist" view of Wall Street and don't understand what it really is.

The only thing that Wall Street English has managed to do that's similiar to firms on the REAL Wall Street is rip people off big time out of their hard earned money by playing on the general ignorance of the masses. From what I have heard they can be also very PICKY with the fioreign teachers (i.e. FACE, if you don't look like a certain foreign group you may not be considered).

If you don't mind the typical nuiances of a training school and you want to get lots and lots of money they by all means go there as an ESL teacher. But if I was a parent I would NEVER for the life of me send my child to these types of schools.

I guess you heard wrong. I work for them and at no time have we ever taught children. It's nice when you see people really doing their homework before commenting on a subject.

And yes we are very picky about our teachers, as far as qualifications are concerned at least. Tell me, if Wall Street is picky with ethnic background and/or appearance then how come they employ teachers from just about about each and every country in the world to work at their centers all around the world? Any teacher working for Wall Street can transfer to any other country of their choice. I was working in France. I have worked in Germany too. Now I am spending some time here in China. Seems that many similar places have a bad reputation in China and it appears they have earned it. Remember something. Wall Street was started in 1972 in Italy, long before China was even capitalist and ESL was big business here. It seems more likely to me that many of these places have simply attempted to model themselves on Wall Street and failed. Don't be so quick to categorize. Wall Street is probably the only language school which is different from the pack.