The TEFL Fight

When I decided to get out of the bad school reporting site business, it was a tough decision. I just couldn’t deal with the day in and day out harassment from a few socially inept teachers. They made my life difficult and went to the point of stalking me. I knew enough was enough so I decided to close up, but I couldn’t stop thinking about the teachers.

Luckily, just as TEFLWatch stopped the forum, two other sites leapt into the fray like vultures. I went ahead and passed the relevant post to a third site. A lot was said on these sites about how they were going to do much better than I could do and that I hadn’t done a good job.

Well, I think a month on, we can look at how well these sites have taken on their new charges. We see one site, Thai EFL Watch. It seems like an inordinate numbers of their posts seem to be from the troll Topper and “his” schools. Of course, he wants them to be thought of as good schools. TEFL Guardian has a lot of promise, but can’t get people to post on it. TEFL School Reviews is doing surprisingly well. Some people said it’s connection to the old TW Forum would be bad news, but that’s hasn’t proved the case.