Pros
Pay is on time. That's it.
Cons
The worst of the worst of Chinese run and lead ed biz nonsense. 1. Let's start with the Singaporean dictator that runs the place, can't teach, can't lead, and the kids find boring and useless. I've worked in three schools with Singaporean leaders in three countries and they are all the same; tyrants validating the Peter Principle while thinking they are God's gift to the world. 2. Then we move to the people who work with foreign teachers who lie through their teeth. 3. Their curriculum developer lead is completely inept and when you bring up problems with their "curriculum" (which appears to be designed by fools), you get bullied and gaslighted. 4. The rooms are anti-septic, sterile, and do nothing to help education. 5. Teachers get NO time off for lunch or a place to each. Enjoy doing it in your jail cell . . . I mean classroom. 5. Enjoy being on camera from the moment you arrive to the moment you leave. 6. Stray off a little being a professional educator and the higher ups will have conniption fits. 7. Local staff is beyond useless. They are only there to spy on and report on the foreigners, barely speak even basic English, and act as if asking them is a burdensome annoyance while doing it means the foreigner owes them something. 8. Parents do nothing but complain and, since it's a business, they are always right and the foreigner is in a constant state of self-defense. Don't worry, those that run the show won't listen to you. They get the complaint, look for evidence to back it up, then give it to the teacher with both barrels. 9: Communication is terrible. . .worse than most places educational sweatshops in China. 10: Students are spoiled that do very little work, expect high marks, then complain when they don't get it. Again, the company will hang the teacher out the drive. 11. If you like polishing a chair with your backside, you'll love it here, because you will do that a lot most of the time. If you keep up the appearance of doing work, they might leave you alone, or they might burden you with more work. 12. I hope you enjoy working nine hours a day on weeks with a one hour (well, make that 45 minute) lunch. And if they provide lunch, it will be barely enough to fill a cavity. If you have dietary restrictions, they don't care. 13. Turnover is insane and the leaders don't seems to understand people don't leave jobs, they leave supervisors. 14. Shanghai superior attitude is everywhere. You, as a foreigner, are beneath them. And they will make you know they don't care about you after about a week. 15: Don't help with housing. Don't have housing reimbursements or subsidies, don't care if you live in a box under a bridge. 16: There will be a foreign head teacher. When I was there, he was useless, incompetent, a terrible teacher (but the fact each class has a set curriculum, he didn't have to think or improvise), and was nothing more than an ax-handle polisher and water-carrier for the hostile leadership. Teachers
