Ouch! There are some harsh words on the Internet about Huijia. I work for Huijia now. I dont work in the primary, middle, or high school. There is also a GAC here and a college on this property. These rat bastard criminal minded Chinese punks also own several so-called kindergartens in this area. Most of the Huijia bashing taking place here is dead on. I cannot speak for the primary school although I have heard a mixed review of that school, but the middle and the high school is the worst of the lot and as bad as they come. The GAC only has 20-30 students. The college does a brisk trade but offers no real education of merit for the money the students parents invest. There is also a pre-GAC here and it is a bad bucket of bolts. All in all the Beijing Huijia Private School is certainly not the end of the line as far as worst school destinations go but it is as was pointed out by several people, damn near the end of the line. If you have other options to consider you ought not to give Huijia another gram of thought. To the gentlemen posting here that will or now, perhaps wont report for work to the salt mines of Huijia my advice to you sir is to listen to the many posters here and find something else more suitable in the way of a job in Beijing. If not you will find yourself hating yourself and kicking yourself in the arse after the fact. Many of otherwise good teachers came and went in my time here and my contract ends in the summer and I wont let any grass grow under my feet when the bell tolls. I have usually been paid on time here, although most of us did not see proper vacation pay as was contracted. The housing is quite poor indeed. One bloke reported vermin running amuck in the housing units which got a chuckle until multiple rats appeared soon after. The meals are sure enough quite poorly prepared and the dirt and the filth in the food is enough to cause one to take meals elsewhere or try and prepare a meal in ones room. I have encountered hair and insect pieces in my meals at Huijia and after the 2nd time I stopped using my meal card which is only worth about 300 RMB per month which given the cost of the food does not last long anyway. The atmosphere of an incarceration facility is spot on in that the fat cat owners of this death trap seem to have recently seen fit to place big brother monitors in nearly every corner of the estate. The washing machines in the housing unit are almost always dirty, broken, or have some other failures going on. Nothing of any merit is convenient for shopping and the only night life anywhere near the estate is some dive of a bar that is rented or owned by one of the wives of some teacher from Australia. During the lunch hours and after hours the teachers go there and drink their fill and run up their tabs. Brining in a friend or girlfriend for the night involves paying off the security clowns, or sneaking them in over the back wall. If you have no life, dont value freedom, and have no other options for a job in Beijing this is not a bad place to work. You can report for teaching drunk and it is business as usual here. Whether you mark papers or not does not matter because the Chinese will just issue the students an A on all records. You neednt be certified or licensed from any particular agency since they dont have any basis for the requirement as they have no curriculum. When reading the comments about Amanda and Joy those are heavy and solid backed by numerous incidents with teaching staff that distrust both of them and rightfully so. One girl there says yes while the other girl says no. They dont have any knowledge of even basic human resource management. The school makes money off of their teachers on any chance they can get. They charge high fees at the stores on the estate. They deduct things from wages without clear reasons.

You must pay for your room on the estate and all of the fees for gas, water, electric, and related fees. Most teachers rent apartments that they escape to on weekends in Beijing because by the time that Friday comes around people have had their fill of oppression, abuse, lies, and totally unprofessional operations that make little or no sense. The showers in the rooms are on some kind of timers and if you dont shower spot on schedule the water is too cold to bathe in. The in room heating is a failure. The soot from the coal smoke stacks does indeed enter rooms and it makes everything dirty and greasy. The medical clinic on the estate is not capable of doing anything more than handing out a band aid or perhaps a sack of Chinese traditional flu tea. They are spending good sums of money on many insignificant projects around the estate such as building a new basketball court while the classrooms fall apart at the seams and the teachers do not have proper texts for teaching. The center piece or focal point for most of the school media releases shows the presidents home which looks like an old American plantation home from the southern parts of the USA. That is most likely because he views the teachers much like his human resources ladies do and that is that the teachers are a bunch of [edited] picking cotton. That is certainly most of us here are treated. At my age I suppose I cannot be too picky and truth be told I am glad to have a job and I do enjoy the art of teaching but I have suffered greatly here and my experience overall at the Beijing Huijia Private School has not been very good. If I were grading them in all areas I would grade them with a D.

God bless you all for all that you do for your students. Just dont do it at the Beijing Huijia Private School unless you simply have no other employment options in China and in a nation so big that is hard to imagine.