In response to Ivy English School / Jiamusi, China (Every foreign teacher who has ever worked there)

Does anyone have any actual information about this school? "This school is crap" in no way provides any facts about the actual working conditions at this center... Do they make you work illegally？ Do they not pay the salaries? Because from the OP and the rest of the whining / complaining posts stacked on here, its hard to tell why this school is crap.
Let’s see:
“They check your apartment monthly” Not surprising since the school owns the apartment and everything in it (or at least are financially responsible for it). I’m guessing that if things weren’t broken then they wouldn’t need to check it. If you don’t like it, do yourself a favor and tell the school you will furnish the apartment yourself and they won’t need to check it. Better yet, rent your own apartment and instead of groveling and complaing about living in school housing you can have total privacy. OR better yet, leave China and go back to your home country and open a position for someone who doesn’t whine and complain about China or Chinese people because its different from their home country.

“a Chinese TA who reports to the director about your performance” WOW, you mean that someone was checking to see if you were doing you are being paid to do? That’s incredible. My best guess this is to prevent freeloaders who never make lesson plans, go to class unprepared, think up lame shit on the spot and get angry at the students for not playing along and/or end up watching movies in class.

As for the rest of the post, there doesn’t seem to be any facts that the school is / has done anything wrong.