A short time ago, the main page of this blog linked to several blogs by current and former BKC-IH Moscow teachers. We received three messages from the owners of some of these blogs, requesting that their links be deleted.
From a message sent to us by one of the BKC-IH Moscow Teacher blog owners:
You have my blog, ...listed on your blog under blogs by bkc ih teachers. While I appreciate your efforts to inform people about bkc moscow, you do not have my permission to include my blog on your site. Please remove it.
Response from the BKC-IH TEACHER'S BLOG:
Your permission is not required. Any time you publish anything online, it may be linked to - as long as the website uses the home page, and not a deep link. Therefore, we are under no obligation to remove it.
If you do not want people reading your blog, you can attempt to make your blog private or you can make the decision to not publish anything online.
However, if you can give us more details and an explanation on why you want your link removed, we will talk it over with all of our contributors, and we will vote on whether or not we will remove the link.
You got fired from BKC, didn't you? Why do you care if your blog is linked to by our blog?
We Never Heard from This Former BKC Teacher Again
And, Another Message We Received From a Different BKC-IH Moscow Employee
Please remove my blog site from your list, I am the author of ....While it is true that I am currently employed at BKC-IH (and as much as I sympathized your sentiments against BKC-IH) I don't want my blog to be advertised in your site or in any other sites.
Response from the BKC-IH TEACHER'S BLOG:
Advertisement means that we are being paid by you. We are not being paid by you. Therefore, since your blog is in the public domain, we can link to it if we so choose.
The Email From the Former BKC Moscow Teacher That Propelled Us to Remove the List of BKC-IH Moscow Teacher Blogs
There is a former teacher who is in a sensitive position, who is possibly still in danger due to allegations made by this teacher against BKC International House Moscow. Being linked to this site may harm that person.
And so the people involved in this blog took a vote and agreed to remove all the blogs we had linked to, giving preferential treatment to no one, regardless of their situations.
If you want to find the blogs of BKC-IH Moscow teachers, it is not difficult
Go to Google.com and type in "bkc ih moscow teachers blogs."
Go to and type in "BKC Moscow."
There are ten pages of links in the Google Blog Search.
While the authors, contributors and "board members" of this blog appreciate the dangerous position some people at BKC-IH Moscow are in, our goal is to tell the truth about BKC-International House Moscow.
Our aim is to expose the illegal wrongdoings as well as warn other teachers about taking a position with BKC-IH Moscow.
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Saturday, June 12, 2010
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Work at BKC Moscow - Work Illegally - Get Abused - Speak Up - Get Fired
One of the biggest problems facing teachers at BKC-IH Moscow right now is the lack of legal visa support.
In a new blog by a BKC-IH Moscow teacher called BKC-IH Moscow Sucks: BKC-IH Moscow Should Be Disaffiliated With IHWO (International House), the teacher writes about the following problems that teachers face while working at his school in Podolsk, Moscow.
1. Being forced to illegally work in Russia (a dangerous situation) because BKC Moscow does not have the legal right to currently employ foreigners if their visas expire. BKC IH Moscow instructs its teachers to get "business visas," which are being used by BKC teachers to teach English in Russia, which is strictly against the law - business visas cannot be used to teach. Teachers foot the bill for the visa runs to get these visas, compensated only a fraction of what it costs to leave the country and come back with an illegal visa.
2. Lack of proper ADOS support for the teacher's curriculum.
3. Lies told by the teacher's ADOS.
4. Teachers being told by BKC-IH Moscow to lie to Russian police about where they work. (We will post more about this on an upcoming blog post.)
5. A vindictive director who stopped buying water for the office and shut down internet connections at the school for no reason.
6. Lies told to the teacher by Wayne Rimmer, the director of studies at BKC-IH Moscow.
7. Being forced out of his apartment after being illegally dismissed by BKC-IH Moscow a few weeks ago.
8. Contract violations, emails that were not responded to, and a threat from BKC-IH Moscow's Director of Studies about never being able to work for IH again.
Read the full blog here.
We will update this blog later to explain the illegal visa situation that BKC-IH Moscow is currently subjecting its teachers to, the verbal abuse that teachers are subjected to, and the contract violations and other laws that BKC Moscow is currently breaking.
We wish this gentleman the best of luck in his future pursuits and his new blog about the unethical and illegal practices of BKC-International House Moscow.
In a new blog by a BKC-IH Moscow teacher called BKC-IH Moscow Sucks: BKC-IH Moscow Should Be Disaffiliated With IHWO (International House), the teacher writes about the following problems that teachers face while working at his school in Podolsk, Moscow.
1. Being forced to illegally work in Russia (a dangerous situation) because BKC Moscow does not have the legal right to currently employ foreigners if their visas expire. BKC IH Moscow instructs its teachers to get "business visas," which are being used by BKC teachers to teach English in Russia, which is strictly against the law - business visas cannot be used to teach. Teachers foot the bill for the visa runs to get these visas, compensated only a fraction of what it costs to leave the country and come back with an illegal visa.
2. Lack of proper ADOS support for the teacher's curriculum.
3. Lies told by the teacher's ADOS.
4. Teachers being told by BKC-IH Moscow to lie to Russian police about where they work. (We will post more about this on an upcoming blog post.)
5. A vindictive director who stopped buying water for the office and shut down internet connections at the school for no reason.
6. Lies told to the teacher by Wayne Rimmer, the director of studies at BKC-IH Moscow.
7. Being forced out of his apartment after being illegally dismissed by BKC-IH Moscow a few weeks ago.
8. Contract violations, emails that were not responded to, and a threat from BKC-IH Moscow's Director of Studies about never being able to work for IH again.
Read the full blog here.
We will update this blog later to explain the illegal visa situation that BKC-IH Moscow is currently subjecting its teachers to, the verbal abuse that teachers are subjected to, and the contract violations and other laws that BKC Moscow is currently breaking.
We wish this gentleman the best of luck in his future pursuits and his new blog about the unethical and illegal practices of BKC-International House Moscow.
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