Sesame Tainan hasn’t improved, at all.
All Sesame schools in Tainan are under the same owner, who has named himself Idea. The HQ is Kidsland in East District.
If a certain branch isn’t bringing in enough bacon, the owner neglects the school. One branch, in YongKang, has holes in the walls going from the inside to the outside of the building, flooring that can be lifted up, and old chairs that have staples unprotected which have resulted in students getting scrapes and cuts.
Taiwanese and foreign teachers, alike, have been leaving recently, resulting in most teachers being “fresh off the boat”, uninformed, and having no contacts or previous experience in Taiwan - which is good for the school, I suppose. Many Taiwanese have been at the school for several years and received zero increase in pay. This has lead Taiwanese to leave for work at McDonald’s, tea shops, etc, as they only receive 25k/month.
New kindergarten teachers are not informed that it is illegal to teach kindergarten until after they’ve already signed the contract and are being told where to go when a special alarm goes off.
If the school were kept up and the teachers were treated with respect, it wouldn’t be so terrible. Unfortunately, the owner cares only about money, money, money. Even “new” computers given to classrooms are second hand and often malfunction.