@LouieK

Thanks for the advice. Obviously before we put any school on a black or white list we do our research...and we will be doing that with this school as well (plus others in Kunming and the rest of China). I have a dedicated team in Hong Kong who do the research based on our own investigation and also opinions of teachers who worked there.

I've been in the education sector in China for over a decade and I am tired of seeing "schools" mistreat their foreign teachers. And it looks like the person who posted above actually worked there...and the review of the place is not favorable.

Thanks again for your input.

If you do a blacklist the risk of retaliation is high.

You don't know who are other stakeholders in a company.

Yeah - - perhaps the government owns it!

Maybe not even the government, but perhaps a local headmaster or the wife of some local small time official. Crony-ism and nepotism are rife in Kunming, there are a lot of small time crooks who seem to have a finger in everything.

Retaliations can take many forms. You bad-mouth a group of people on the English speaking network. A group of Chinese start bad-mouthing an 'outsider' on both the guanxi and the local Chinese gossip net. Who do you think will come off worst?
When it comes time to renew licences you may find it harder than it needs to be. Your rent may go up. You may get more visits from small time officials, some of whom seek a little money (graft).
Local teachers may be asked by their headmasters to not recommend you, or even to suggest to parents there is a problem with you; a hint from a teacher is all that is needed, no accusations need to be made. With quality Chinese retaliation, you won't even know you are being attacked, you will just seem to be having a lot of difficult days.

The other thing to think about is this. You lose a lot of kudos when you badmouth others. This is the same in most cultures across the world. In China, if you make someone lose face, it is at the cost of your own as well.

A blacklist is OK if you have nothing to potentially gain from doing it. If you could potentially gain, your motives will be called into question.

You can only safely publish a blacklist if you have nothing to lose from it.

Why a blacklist. Just reframe the debate and conversation by making it a rating system. No one retaliates for bad vendor ratings on taobao.