I've seen some crazy things in my career in education. Very often, it feels so disgusting.

How meaningful do you think a PD(whether inside or outside school) really is when the individual fundamentally lacks:

1. Effective Communication
2. Lesson Planning with content and context
3. Basic Classroom Management

I'm not talking about advanced pedagogy or any of the shiny things...

I'm talking about the floor. Can any PD provide any help to those individuals?

From what I've seen working at different schools, there are places where Chinese staff come and go far more than foreign teachers do...they're more disposable, basically. They'll leave in the middle of the academic year, quite often even in the last month. (foreign staff too but not that much)

I'd walk around campus and constantly see new faces, and it used to baffle me. Now I get it. I understand why they can always hire someone. Most of the time, it's fresh college graduates with zero or little experience.

The schools hold all the cards. They can find a replacement tomorrow morning if they need to. They're more than happy to take full advantage of a situation where graduates deliver noodles on a scooter.

Curious to hear what would you add. From my experience over the years, these are some of the main red flags:

• Toxic environment - favoritism - nepotism
• Micromanagement leading to disengagement
• Poor quality control, inconsistency, constant changes without planning
• Hysterical leadership lacking expertise and ineffective
• Burnout culture
• High turnover - usually hidden during interviews
• Gossip and bootlicking culture - mainly from underqualified teachers
• Loyalty over competence - appearance over learning - profit over quality
• Big gap between marketing image and reality
• Cliques
• High drama
• Long meaningless meetings and deceptive conversations leading nowhere

These are the sort of red flags that,if you take your profession seriously and have any respect for what you do, should probably tell you.... it's time...

A research to understand to what extent different people might tolerate some or even all of these red flags, and at what point they could become dangerous to a career.