Pros
free tap water. There are washrooms that usually work.
Cons
- zero respect for teachers. If a student complains, you are out of the class. - the 'in-house' books are a joke - filled with mistakes, terrible pedagogy. It apparently was done by PhDs! Horrible. - will actually give 1 hour shifts. This should be illegal but is not. - Students get away with everything because Kaplan is only worried about getting good student surveys. This is true of all international schools but obsessively so at Kaplan. - Except for IELTS, TOEFL and Cambridge classes, the classes are edutainment. - they use student 'interns' as free labour and exploit as much as they can. - zero opportunity to professional development of teachers - as such, teachers who have been there a long time are stuck in their ruts and would probably be unemployable at any other school. It is rather depressing to see long term teachers there - they somehow got stuck and never moved forward. It was a good motivation to get out. - Teachers got along pretty well but there were sometimes blowups and some extremely unprofessional behaviour.
