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Q: Have any long time English teachers dealt with Maverick Bian or Xpeed Learning English Words?

His name may have been different back then. His method involved making students memorize thousands of English words in a short amount of time. He claims to be a Tsinghua engineering graduate. No background in education, shockingly enough.

 

He's in the US now, running scam camps for Chinese immigrant families who dream of sending their kids to Harvard. Recently he was run out of Flushing (Queens, NY Chinatown) by the state Attorney General for making false promises that he could make kids skip 3 years of school and turn them into prodigies. He had to pay back some of the money.

 

Now he seems to have set up shop in a nearby NJ town. Many of the campers are still from Flushing. He buses them in on Mondays and then they stay in cheap motels 4 to a room during the week.  He holds the camp in the dining room at a college, so he can pretend he is affiliated with it. The camp is very expensive, around $1500 per week.  Who knows if he is licensed for overnight operations?

 

He promises parents tutors who are from Ivy League universities, but what he really employs are high school students who receive no prior training. I doubt these tutors will even get paid at the end of the summer. The campers spend a lot of time on iPads playing games... One of my neighbor's daughter is working there and says the whole thing is a sham.

 

Just curious if he rings a bell for any of the people on the board who have been in China for a long time. He looks weasily with crazy bad teeth. (That probably doesn't narrow it down much for dodgy English school owners, does it?)

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This sock puppet needs to retire. Pointless questions. I know from my time as a user mod that this is a fake account. Time for this one to end.

 

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