think before you join - Teacher Star Learners Employee Review

• A few genuinely capable colleagues who try their best despite the environment. • Some teams manage to stay motivated, but not for long.

• Leadership is unqualified and only in power because of their relationship to the boss. • Nepotism is rampant — skilled staff are pushed out so the manager can bring in friends and ex‑colleagues. • PIPs are weaponised as automatic termination tools, regardless of actual performance. • High turnover, constant instability, and zero respect for merit. Leave has to be taken around meetings and trainings. So you can’t really plan holidays a year in advance.

- High salary - Typical benefits (Annual Leave, Medical Leave, Dental (still ex tho), HL, etc) - Colleagues are generally all very nice and good to work with (your experience might differ in different centres tho) - Lesson plans are given (you might need to do modifications frequently tho) - Frequent in-house workshops if you like professional development (probably once every term)

- Lots of paper work to do (events planning, excursion - probably depends on centre, weekly planner, evaluation, etc) - There seems to be a lot of restrictions in their SOPs (e.g. teachers and children can't wear socks due to hygiene purposes, few children (like max 6 among the whole school) to go to the toilet (and only one toilet) at any one time for safety purposes, etc) - High student to teacher ratio!! (The schools are always at max, and sometimes they still enroll past the max, so there's always insufficient manpower) - they do hire relief teachers, but sometimes they can't find in time - Kinda depends which centre you go to as well because each school's vibe is different - Lots of meetings (especially when IQC is approaching; might differ for different centres tho) - SPARK certified so, like all other schools/companies that are as well, the expectations by ECDA are so high, sometimes it gets a bit ridiculous