Overworked and Underappreciated - Foreign Teacher English 1 Employee Review

2.0
13 Jul 2019
Recommend
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Pros

The salary and benefits are good, and students are eager to learn.

Cons

Everything is catered to the parents. Teachers are not allowed to run classes efficiently because parents always complain about one thing or another, and the school gives in to them. All they care about is a good performance, not the students actually learning. Especially with summer and winter courses, the teachers are massively overworked and held to unrealistic expectations in terms of lesson delivery and student retention, all the while being treated like they're disposable and unimportant. At one point, I was vomiting and very sick, but was not allowed to take the day off because there wasn't anyone to cover my classes, and the school refused to cancel classes to please the parents. Then, when I got sick in class and had to run to the bathroom, the parents complained about me leaving class. I was also reprimanded for this by management later on, as though it were my fault for being sick. I also experienced many health problems due to the unhygienic conditions the school was kept in, and raised complaints about it.

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English 1 Response
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Thank you for your post. We are sorry to hear that you had a negative experience at your school and felt you were treated unfairly. We take any allegation of unfair or improper workplace treatment very seriously. Although you are no longer at the school, we would still encourage you to reach out to us at compliance.china@ef.com so that we can properly look into the matter.

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