Open to ideas, but first some context: There’s a large, well-known franchise brand language school with multiple locations around Spain with, what I believe to have, the highest turnover rate in the industry.
They deliberately market the rose-tinted teach abroad angle around mid-Summer, onboard fresh-faced TEFL teachers, and squeeze them dry.
Back to back classes, 30+ students per class, sending them around the city to company classes, 1 hour per location.
When mid-July comes they let go every single one and restart the hiring, going as far as lying to students that the teachers had the travel bug and went to Asia
(they’re still in the city, with no social security due to only having worked one academic year).
They also get very concerned when teachers discuss their employment terms, conditions, contracts, legality of the whole setup amongst themselves.
Those with the a good Spanish level, enough to bring their concerns to the fixed back-office staff, are labeled problematic and let go.
Yet they keep winning public sector tenders to teach gov. ministries, police, army. I’ve read the publicly available docs on these tenders, and they do not tick many of the boxes to win these.
They recently nose-dived to 1.3 stars on Google maps but had the listing removed and reset, now full of 5 star reviews from “students” with the same names as the back-office staff.
Aside from warning future teachers via ESL sites, what could be done with a business like this?