A Review of Alexander Academy in Taipei (both locations)

I was one of the people who posted a negative review of this school in the blacklist thread. I didn’t expect to see a thread pop up about them – honestly, staff turnover was so high when I was there that I wasn’t sure the school would still be around. I’m sorry to hear that things there haven’t improved.

I can confirm what the OP wrote above, particularly the bit about the owner being volatile and unpleasant, to which I’d add that in my experience she also had a penchant for talking about her employees behind their backs. (I’m not sure what she was thinking – that the staff wouldn’t compare notes?)

When I was there, the amount of prep work and paperwork we had to do was absolutely overwhelming, although it’s possible that’s changed since I left. It was really demoralizing to come in every day, try my absolute hardest to get everything done, and still feel like I was on thin ice with management.

Additionally, and I don’t think I mentioned this in my post in the other thread, when I was there we had a couple of kids with serious behavioral issues. I’m not talking about passing notes, these were students who in the US would have been in special ed. classes. I remember teachers bringing up their behavior with management several times and getting blamed for it – “That wouldn’t happen if your lessons were more engaging.” This encouraged teachers to keep it to themselves when their students acted out, which I think is very irresponsible and damaging, but understandable when one’s job (and ergo one’s ARC and residence in the country) is on the line.

I’m still in contact with many of my ex-coworkers, who’ve gone on to work at other schools where they’re much happier. I still don’t know whether there are any perfect schools out there, but I do know there are better ones to work at than this.