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[whitedreadlocks]

Blog Post #9: The Ultimate Bitch Post - First Leap Education

Name: White Dreadlocks

Location: Zhenjiang fuck still 

Occupation: Reading articles about coping with anxiety. 

Date: 12/07/2017 

Dear the internet,  I’ve kind of reached the stage of acceptance. Yes, my company is kicking me out days before my flight, yes, they’ve decided to pay me practically nothing, yes it is likely I will be financially fucked up until I get a part-time job at home and my student loan is accepted. I am not usually a ‘accept-a-bad-deal’ kind of person but I am emotionally drained. There is no post about Singapore. My company took my passport to cancel my work visa promising it would be five days. It was eleven. My month’s paycheck isn’t enough to cover the flights I missed and none of my employers will respond. But the idea of going into the office and screaming and kicking off AGAIN ultimately leading to tears AGAIN and nothing at all changing AGAIN makes me feel physically ill. So instead I’m going to get my own petty form of revenge in the way of bitching to 12 followers.  If anyone is following this page because they’re considering being a TEFL teacher I have advice: Do it. It’ll be worth it. If you commit and you’re ready to go you’ll grow and mature in more ways than you can imagine. Seeing the world is always a positive thing to do if you’re in a position where you’re able to afford it. 

But don’t go to First Leap Education. 

I was told I’d be unemployed for three weeks. It was two months. I ended up with a drained bank account and 5000 kuai from my last paycheck to last around 6 weeks till they paid me. A week before I flew out they told me I wasn’t in the city they promised in the interview. I’d be in a smaller city. Since I had no money, I had no choice but to continue on and take the job. I couldn’t chose my own apartment because they’d rented one for me. It was one room with no kitchen. They knew we required cooking facilities so they bought me a microwave. Don’t know what I would be microwaving. I don’t have a freezer and the fridge was broken. In this new city the cost of living was lower so my pay wouldn’t be what they promised in the interview. I’d gone from around 18,000 a month to 10,000 most months. The kicker was they knew from the time they interviewed me that there would be no places in the city they offered. First Leap lie to get what they want. It’s a flawless business model. 

NOW HOLD UP HOLD UP moving abroad is a very big deal. You have to be able to roll with the punches, that I believe. It’s never going to be smooth and I knew that from the first time. But I had a job in China. I had a flat, I loved my teaching jobs, I had friends, I was in a major city. I moved company because it made financial sense and I liked the benefits, not because I needed a fresh, new experience. First Leap Education lied through their teeth and stripped all the benefits they promised me.

 I loved my co-workers for the most part. But constant competition and telling everyone how to do their job, offering advice no one asked for got irritating. I had six months teaching experience and was treated like a child. I had bigoted idiots screaming in the office about how they hated black people, how free healthcare shouldn’t exist because if he was too disabled to work he would just die, how abortion was the murder of babies but people shouldn’t have kids they can’t afford and expect help, how Moonlight was disgusting, how he found a 14 year old hot and blamed the actress for wearing make up, how arabs were ugly, how there were hardly any gays in the world anyway so why does it matter? a constant spew of inappropriate shit that completely effected how I worked and never. fucking. stopped. I was taken aside and told to ignore him. We had a presentation about how we should avoid politics in the staff-room. The manager spent the whole time looking at me as though I was the problem. 

Now for the actual leaving let’s see:  I tried to hand in my notice and they told me I couldn’t. When I told them I had to leave and they had no choice a few weeks later, they cut my final paycheck, made me hand over my passport to cancel my visa, threatened to black list me if I didn’t comply and kept referring back to a contract that they hadn’t even signed. I agreed to hand over my passport if they agreed to pay for my flight if I missed it which they agreed to and then retracted. There isn’t fear like being a foreigner in a city without documentation or a way home. My last two weeks have been, oh, just about hell. But it’s coming to an end. And soon I’m gonna pick myself up, find some fucking work, start up uni and write again. But for now I’m gonna have my little online tantrum because I have no time for a company that fakes degrees to get people on Z visas, hires people on illegal visas, treats their employees as if they’re disposable and drops them if their situation is proving to be too dangerous but will threaten a 21 year old with the law unless she complies in all the unreasonable things they demand.  Sincerely, 

White Dreadlocks,  P.S. This is just one experience. Many people have nothing but a positive time with First Leap, I just didn’t. My old company was notorious and genuinely considered worse but I had a great time with them and felt I was listened to. It really is subjective. But if you want my two cents this is it.  Quote of the Day: Home Sweet Parent’s Home For Six More Weeks Dear God. (Try and fit that on a crochet.) 

[vikasaiminghigh]

#puppies #firstleap #upandup

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One of the cutest kids from my class modeling my new Taobao Pens Jersey/Hoodie!! 😺🐧👏🏼#helookslikeahockeysithlord @penguins #firstleap #teachinginchina

[wechengdu1]

The Student From China Turned A Tutoring Chain Into A Billion Dollar Fortune

They start THEM Youthful at Chinese billionaire Zhang Bangxin’s schools. Toddlers, some no more mature than two, squirm their way by way of 90- to 120-minute lessons (usual lesson: novice math) that charge their mothers and fathers about $20 an hour (the common Chinese manufacturing worker, by comparison, earns close to $2 an hour or so). Some pupils will keep on with Zhang’s tutors by substantial college, boning up on record, math, Chinese, English and a lot more. Zhang’s TAL Education Group is among the greatest gamers in Chinese non-public instruction. Revenues from his 301 universities in mainland China has climbed nearly 300% in 4 many years to $434 million. The company’s New York-listed inventory is up 200% since its October 2010 IPO, lifting the press-shy Zhang, TAL’s 36-year-old main govt, to the billionaire ranks with a $1.five billion fortune. Zhang’s path to this 10-figure internet truly worth experienced an inauspicious beginning. Following graduating from Sichuan College in 2001, Zhang labored seven part-time jobs-including tutoring-to hold afloat for a cash-strapped existence sciences PhD student at Peking University. The tutoring was so profitable that Zhang chose to commence a full-time enterprise in 2003. 4 decades later on, he dropped away from his PhD system to concentration on his new business, TAL Training Team.

Now, fewer than a decade later, Zhang’s company has become among the top five tutoring companies in China’s fragmented $100 billion private instruction marketplace, achieving 1.5 million Chinese pupils in 24 Chinese metropolitan areas. Though the corporate is still targeted on bodily growth (hunting to enter a minimum of two new metropolitan areas each year), its dedication to on the net education has allowed it to keep up its position within the Chinese sector and mature, according into a Deloitte report. TAL 1st began offering online courses in January 2010, and introduced dwell on-line courses in 2012. The corporation launched a new “flipped classroom” practical experience in March 2015, letting college students to interact with their courses alternatively of just viewing a recording. TAL also just lately released a cellular app that allows college students to communicate with tutors anytime of day. “We are constantly operating to broaden our on-line offerings,” Zhang wrote inside a current firm filing. TAL claims that its on-line choices account for nearly one-third of China’s online tutoring. Although on-line courses only designed up 3.6% of TAL’s whole net earnings in 2015, on the net income has greater in excess of one,000% because 2011. On top of that to enhancing its possess know-how, TAL has centered on acquisitions and strategic investments to extend its digital footprint. In September, TAL acquired Firstleap Education and learning, a Chinese enterprise that gives on the internet and offline tutoring for kids involving the ages of two and 15. A month later, TAL invested $30 million in Phoenix E-Learning, which operates China’s biggest on the internet instruction platform. And in January, TAL declared a strategic financial commitment in education company Knewton, with programs to integrate the adaptive understanding leader’s technological know-how into TAL’s possess on the web education and learning system. “We wish to be suitable with the cusp of the place training meets technological know-how,” Zhang informed traders in July.

source : 

Eastasia 

Example of College in Shanghai

Example of Online Education in China

EducationChinacenter

[wechengduorg1]

The Student From China Turned A Tutoring Chain Into A Billion Dollar Fortune

They start THEM Youthful at Chinese billionaire Zhang Bangxin’s schools. Toddlers, some no more mature than two, squirm their way by way of 90- to 120-minute lessons (usual lesson: novice math) that charge their mothers and fathers about $20 an hour (the common Chinese manufacturing worker, by comparison, earns close to $2 an hour or so). Some pupils will keep on with Zhang’s tutors by substantial college, boning up on record, math, Chinese, English and a lot more. Zhang’s TAL Education Group is among the greatest gamers in Chinese non-public instruction. Revenues from his 301 universities in mainland China has climbed nearly 300% in 4 many years to $434 million. The company’s New York-listed inventory is up 200% since its October 2010 IPO, lifting the press-shy Zhang, TAL’s 36-year-old main govt, to the billionaire ranks with a $1.five billion fortune. Zhang’s path to this 10-figure internet truly worth experienced an inauspicious beginning. Following graduating from Sichuan College in 2001, Zhang labored seven part-time jobs-including tutoring-to hold afloat for a cash-strapped existence sciences PhD student at Peking University. The tutoring was so profitable that Zhang chose to commence a full-time enterprise in 2003. 4 decades later on, he dropped away from his PhD system to concentration on his new business, TAL Training Team.

Now, fewer than a decade later, Zhang’s company has become among the top five tutoring companies in China’s fragmented $100 billion private instruction marketplace, achieving 1.5 million Chinese pupils in 24 Chinese metropolitan areas. Though the corporate is still targeted on bodily growth (hunting to enter a minimum of two new metropolitan areas each year), its dedication to on the net education has allowed it to keep up its position within the Chinese sector and mature, according into a Deloitte report. TAL 1st began offering online courses in January 2010, and introduced dwell on-line courses in 2012. The corporation launched a new “flipped classroom” practical experience in March 2015, letting college students to interact with their courses alternatively of just viewing a recording. TAL also just lately released a cellular app that allows college students to communicate with tutors anytime of day. “We are constantly operating to broaden our on-line offerings,” Zhang wrote inside a current firm filing. TAL claims that its on-line choices account for nearly one-third of China’s online tutoring. Although on-line courses only designed up 3.6% of TAL’s whole net earnings in 2015, on the net income has greater in excess of one,000% because 2011. On top of that to enhancing its possess know-how, TAL has centered on acquisitions and strategic investments to extend its digital footprint. In September, TAL acquired Firstleap Education and learning, a Chinese enterprise that gives on the internet and offline tutoring for kids involving the ages of two and 15. A month later, TAL invested $30 million in Phoenix E-Learning, which operates China’s biggest on the internet instruction platform. And in January, TAL declared a strategic financial commitment in education company Knewton, with programs to integrate the adaptive understanding leader’s technological know-how into TAL’s possess on the web education and learning system. “We wish to be suitable with the cusp of the place training meets technological know-how,” Zhang informed traders in July.

source : 

Eastasia 

Example of College in Shanghai

Example of Online Education in China

EducationChinacenter

[leapmotion]

#FirstLeap: 5 Interactive Websites for Leap Motion

While Airspace has more than 75 apps and continues to grow, there’s even more that you can do with your Leap Motion Controller. Developers around the world have been working with our JavaScript API to experiment with interesting new web experiences.

From particle systems to creative tools, here are five interesting Leap Motion-enabled experiences for the web. Before you try them, make sure your device’s green light is on, and that you have checked the “Allow Web Apps” box in the Leap Motion Control Panel (General tab). We recommend Google Chrome for these apps. Our developers keep making amazing things, and we’ll keep sharing more web and Airspace apps as they come in.

Cabbibo’s Leap

A solar system serves as a gateway into several personal projects created by Isaac Cohen, an experience engineer with Leap Motion. Hold your hand over a planet and pull it into the sun to browse a spiral of cute photos, control sunbeams, explore a universe of sound, and more.

WebGL GPU Particles

Manipulate over a million tiny particles as they sparkle through space in your browser window.

Knife

Knife is a particle system that allows you to experiment with the behavior of hundreds of multicolored balls. Play with physics by tweaking variables that include color, friction, time speed, and explosive power.

Theremin

One of the earliest electronic instruments, the theremin is also a classic touchless device that can now be accessed in your browser. We’d love to hear the eerie music you can create with this virtual theremin – take a video and tweet us with the hashtags #FirstLeap #theremin.

FastKat Leap

In this minigame, you can accelerate at dizzying speeds through space. Avoid the stars and see how long you can last.

We’d love to hear about your #FirstLeap experiences with these web apps. Post your thoughts and pictures @leapmotion. If you’re interested in developing an app or website for Leap Motion, please join our Developer Community and download the free SDK at developer.leapmotion.com.

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#FirstLeap #leapmotion @leapmotion #geek #AI #test

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Can't wait to try out my new Leap Motion. Now I can eat at my computer all day and not worry about getting snacks on my trackpad. Wireless gesture control here I come. 

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#firstleap#courage#toddler#crawling#play#softfurniture#kids

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Preview of @leapmotion #josephtyler #leapmotion #firstleap #vscocam

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#firstleap (at Yaman's Territory)

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Leap Motion is a company developing advanced motion sensing technology for human-€“computer interaction. Originally inspired by frustration surrounding 3D

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