What school are you talking about?
If its Shenyang Pacific International Academy, you'll get screwed.
SPIA screws everyone to some extent but they take extra liberties with dorm supervisors.

Sid: "Still no proof, no support, no evidence. Just another claim."

Proof, support and evidence are for the ones that matter. You don't matter.

Finally, it took almost 4 months and the help of a senator but the State Department is in the game.
I'm sure the dimmer among you are wondering, how does the State Department come in?

It does and WASC will be the focus of our discussion.

Nomads Asked: If there are members of WASC taking bribes, as you suggest, it would indeed be a serious offence. Can you provide us with proof?"

Yes - eyewitness testimony plus an email from a previous head making the charge that bribes (or as he said "gifts") were accepted. WASC may have many on this site fooled, but I'm to them.

gengrant said: As much as I want to beat a dead horse, I do need to add my 2 cents here;"

I don't know what you mean by a dead horse because it is by no means over. WASC is a sham organization run by a few sham artists and I'm working daily on it. Things take time. I have a senator involved, I have a complaint against the Department of State that ties to WASC and I'm just starting to contact the admission department of universities, specifically where graduates from this school in China went to, to let them know WASC is a sham organization.

As far as WASC only being able to do so much, I say that the two or three scam artists taking bribes at WASC do nothing at all. If a school such as the one that ripped me off has multiple complaints against it, I'm guessing WASC just demands more money from them. If you want to know who the biggest thief is at WASC, just log on to the website and you'll see his face.

Again, things take time but I'm not done. I'm just getting started.

EUExplorer Asks: "Why would WASC revoke the accreditation of JIS??"

Because JIS has done nothing to help this teacher.
More to the point, why would WASC be accrediting any school in a country where teachers can be jailed without charges?
Thats an easy one: WASC is in it for the money and the handful of WASC officials who get to take 1st class trips around the world are only in it for the money and for whatever swag they get out of the owners.

WASC could care less about teachers or education - they are a sham organization.

Hallier wrote:
>I'm not sure what WASC can do.

WASC can't do anything, you are right, they are useless.
WASC could revoke the accreditation of the school - which they won't do because in addition to being useless, WASC is corrupt. They just want whatever fees and "gifts" they are given during visits to the school.

WASC is a joke.

OP: As usual, Sid's talking Lilacs and Roses - ignore his lies as the mumblings of a demented old man.
Saudi students are like Kuwaiti students - they suck and are nothing but a big discipline problem.
You might as well get a job in an inner city.

The upside is the money; you'll make up to $60/hr as a "tutor" which basically means helping them with their homework.

Its a damn outrage but they would get any help from WASC.

Is this a WASC school?

interteach syas: "Maybe you'll even learn how to spell along the way."

Because spellings what counts in a situation like this.

MedellinHeel: not just food stamps but help with paying rent and care of the American taxpayer and all because a wealthy Chinese man refuses to pay his workers while WASC looks the other.

That's my pitch and its working. The due process issue turns out to be a non-starter since I'm in an at-will employment State but the "leaving an American with little kids destitute" angle, well that dog hunts.

Its a hard road to till and mostly I'm ignored but I have a social worker, an Alderman and the ear of a Congress Woman and I'm sending on average 20 targetted emails per day and I follow up with a phone. I haven't even started on the Universities yet.

At the very least, I'll put WASC at the center of a controversy even if it takes some time.

I have a Congresswoman involved!
The key might be the State Department: why are visas being granted to students that graduate from a high school that does not pay its American teachers? It turns out to be a fair question.

Its strange that so many on this site cry over the poor "wealthy Chinese" and yet all of those I contact in America get the logic: China has every right to do as it pleases but it has no right to WASC accreditation nor do Chinese students have a right to a university education in America. Its not rocket science just common sense.

@Michelle "Why did you get fired?"

No reason was given, there were no formal evaluations, no due process and three other teachers just this year were in similar situation as my own. The school has a history of behaving in this way so much so that niether SEARCH nor ISS will have anything to do with them. It seems only WASC considers them worthwhile. Could it be, Michelle, that the school should not exist and certainly should not be acreditted by WASC?

Initially, and while I was still in China, I did contact a member of the board, a parent of one of the student's I taught, and he couldn't be bothered to help and could care less about my kids.

Having said that, my focus is WASC and not the students or the school or the students but if in the course of showing up WASC to be either corroupt or incompetent or both, should a few students get some reflected shit on them, I would have to say blame the school, not me.

@ Teachingagain45 - thanks for the constructive advice. 60 minutes is a good idea; I'm drafting them an email right now.

Some progress: while applying for food stamps, I told my tale of woe to an outraged social worker who put me in touch with my alderman. My alderman at least gets the logic - WASC should not be accredting these dodgy schools - and has promised to email the relavent consulate in China to suggest visa applications for students graduating from this school be put in the circular file. Its a start but my target is still WASC.