Pros
The only pro at Dada at this point is seeing the students I have taught for over a year. I love teaching them and have built up great friendships with them and their parents. The courseware is so dated. I've lost heaps of students who were maybe about 2-4 years old, who really needed interactive software to bridge the gap between knowing their abcs and blending words, but are too young to do straight lessons.
Cons
The biggest con is that the company does not work with or listen to teachers. They've moved in a direction where they have spent all their capital investment on weird high end singalong videos for kids which actually are in pretty bad English. There needs to be more Native English speakers involved in management, IT and courseware design. The company regularly changes contracts to further erode employment and payment rules. Standby is no longer paid. There's no attendance bonus anymore. Trial package incentives are super low, around $7 mark for selling a package to parents worth about $1000. The company sent out the most insulting new "bonus" system recently where for 2 weeks if you submit your personalised 500 word reports on time for trials you can earn the massive sum of $0.40. Trials are around 15 mins long. So a teacher could be getting through a huge amount of them. And then have a nightmarish amount of unpaid/poorly paid work to do after. The leave policy is so strict that it is losing really good teachers. Other online schools allow you to open booking times and close them, as opposed to asking for time off. It's seriously inflexible and makes it difficult to add extra hours for your Regular Students.