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A Scam Enabling Illegal Foreign Workers to Get Visas by Pretending to Be Students - Native English Teacher Transworld Schools Employee Review

1.0
28 Dec 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Pays above minimum wage, although when you factor in the unpaid time preparing for lessons and dealing with tests and the unpaid time between classes, the pay is not as good as it first appears. Also, the schedule will not allow full-time work since the classes might be spread out with plenty of unpaid dead time in between.

Cons

The boss is unfriendly and highly abusive. Fully 70% of the students fail to meet the legally required minimum threshold for attendance and passing grades; they pretend to be students so they can work in the US illegally. Out of the approximately 600 students that I taught over almost two years, only about six had any genuine desire to learn English. Moral is poor and staff turnover is rapid. Although some students are nice, many are abusive and disrespectful toward the teachers because the owner enables bad behavior, since the paying "customers" rank more highly than the disposable "teachers". This place is worse than many of the scam English academies in San Francisco. Avoid this school like the plague. Also, poor ventilation in the windowless classrooms has led to tuberculosis problems in the past, and with COVID, working at this fire-trap of a building will probably lead to your death. Is it worth risking death to work for a scam operation whose only purpose is to profiteer off of illegal foreign workers stealing jobs from poor Americans like yourself?

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5.0
1 Sept 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Great community, great place to work, nice students with a lot of diversity

Cons

no cons during my experience

5.0
26 Oct 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Running a full-time language school in a major, cosmopolitan center is a full-time job. Students from over 30 countries with vastly different cultures and different expectations about the United States create an active, often hectic environment. Nonetheless, having worked at Transworld for 3 years, I can say that beneath the hectic appearance that is common to all language schools, Transworld is secure and stable to the core. A full-time staff is maintained and teachers have set schedules which do not change. Faculty is never subjected to a "who's available", first come, first served employment status. Classes are never cancelled due to unforeseen conditions like instructor illness or absence. Qualified substitutes are found and the class schedules that students have paid for are maintained in their entirety. As well, in my time working there, I have never been misled by the management team. Policy decisions are presented clearly and carried out efficiently. When they are subject to change, the changes are clearly set forth and there is never any ambiguity about new procedure. The directorship and management at Transworld has never made any assurance to me that they have not lived up to, and I have never been poorly informed--either inadvertently or deliberately--about any issue concerning administration, curriculum, my tenure there or anything else. In an industry that is by its very nature subject to fluctuation and a certain amount of uncertainty, the comportment of Transworld Schools, in my experience, has been solid and completely professional all along.

Cons

The directorship/management has over 30 years experience in language instruction and school administration. They're highly qualified.

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