Xining, Qinghai Kid Castle

Program

Teaching English in China with Kid Castle

By Anonymous Who on 10/04/2022

Ratings

Overall

Benefits: 1

Support: 1

Fun: 2

Facilities: 2

Safety: 2

Review

Safety of the school was terrible. Flooding from above karaoke bar, sparks flying from water hitting live wires in teachers room. Umbrellas over computers. Toilets overflowing was a common occurrence. Outside in Xining city was safe. A lot of police around. The management was very tricky. Changing pay date before leaving so I could get my last months pay. Accused of stealing when the school overpaid. This kind of stupid childish behaviour. School materials old and dirty. Not enough text books to go around. Anyway it goes on and on. Just be careful of private school especially when they are NOT associated with the HEAD OFFICE of whichever cram school you have chosen. Otherwise they can behave in anyway they want. There is nobody to rein them in.

Otherwise Xining during summer was beautiful the locals very friendly. Winter can be grim going down to minus 18 and hardly any snow as it is an arid area.

Best of luck.

Year Completed

2019

Private Note to Provider (optional)

I have proof of being threatened by the foreign British manager as when they realised I wasn’t going to carry on with them they didn’t want me going back to Xining at all as being a white western teacher would be a big threat to their school. There were very very few white westerners there as pay was low. They threatened me and am still being threatened here in England. The guy is gang connected.