BKC Moscow is currently propositioning teachers to write for their "teacher" website, which has been defunct since oh, about 2002.
Since BKC Moscow has such bad press from teacher blogs, not to mention the almighty ESLCafe.com, and even a mainstream magazine, they must be thinking - oh we have to get some good stories up on this Internet thing all the kids are talking about.
As our intrepid team wades through the World Wide Web (as it was known back in the day), we browsed through the old BKC Moscow teacher's site and found this interesting article written by a guy none of us recognizes.
From his musings on the article, we gather that this young man is likely whoring it up in some third world country, or otherwise financing his sex-tours.
This BKC Moscow teacher wrote about - and BKC Moscow published - the following:
- Threatening stops by the Russian police. One incident in which the Russian police put his hand on his gun to intimidate the teacher.
- Boasting about his sexual escapades. "My second visit saw me being chatted up by a young girl who was bi-sexual. Sadly nothing exciting came of this meeting. My third visit (yes, I really like this place!) saw be being invited onto the bar come stage by a beautiful blonde and leggy stripper who undress herself, and then undressed me. Completely. Photographic evidence is available at www.HungyDuck.com if your are prepared to pay the fee for viewing."
- This guy also notes that he was accused of sexual harassment which was of course denied by him and laughed off by the geniuses at BKC Moscow.
- Claimed that although the wages from BKC Moscow were "meant" to indicate a middle-class lifestyle, he could not afford a washing machine and thus washed is clothes in the tub.
And then, after you do that, read between the lines. This is what BKC Moscow is using to ENTICE young teachers to come work for their corrupt school.. All the sex you want! Clubs! Discos! Vodka! More sex! Bisexual, trisexual, threesomes, whatever you want! Sightseeing! Look at all the buildings!
This guy didn't write much about what it was like to be an actual teacher. The article was filled with typos and grammatical errors. We are guessing that he was wasted most of the time and couldn't be bothered to do much teaching, not when his main goal seems to be getting into every club in Moscow and fucking as many girls as possible.
Read even further into it and you will see that this teacher was thoroughly convinced, as was BKC Moscow, that this article was appropriate and in fact welcomed by the ex-pat teaching community.
Become a teacher and get lots of sex and booze and police stops and pay a bunch of bribes. Oh yes and teach once in awhile. That basically sums up BKC Moscow's recruiting tools.
God bless those fools.
Hey mate, your source is either biased or inaccurate. (or maybe both?)
ReplyDeleteThere are adverts around, but nobody claimed that if you write an article, you'll make big money, quite the contrary, they asked for voluntary contributions.
Voluntary= acting or done willingly and without constraint or expectation of reward (www.thefreedictionary.com)
If BKC is a villain, how come they offer 'big money' for some articles? If you really worked for BKC, as you imply, you'd know a lot about 'without expectation of reward'.
Also, there was no 'write for BKC Moscow', but write for a teachers' magazine. Teachers who, indeed, work for BKC. Does that mean that Recruitment will write the articles? They wouldn't bother.
I actually think the magazine is a good idea, if there are people who want to do it, why not? What exactly is the problem? That they're not getting paid? Are you getting paid for trashing BKC on this blog? If you're doing it for fun, maybe they're doing it for fun, too.
Bad press, you say? You're right. But how reliable is the info you get on the mighty world wide web/ almighty Dave's esl cafe? How reliable is the info on this blog? I'd say a pinch of salt is needed.
As for the article you mention, oh my God! The depraved teachers of BKC! You mean that guy was going out in clubs with girls instead of going to the library on Friday night to read Tolstoy? Or instead of planning his New English File Elementary lesson on Saturday evening?! Now that's something I'm sure you don't do! The people BKC employs-shocking! No wonder you didn't fit the profile :P
There is a clear bias here.
ReplyDelete"If you really worked for BKC, as you imply, you'd know a lot about 'without expectation of reward'."
We know.