Overview: ESL Teachers United

ESL Teachers United was established in 2011 in response to the lack of oversight in the ESL industry. Information regarding ESL schools, their services and their employment practices is sketchy at best. While the overall impression of ESL via others ESL websites is that all is rosy in the world of English, seasoned ESL teachers & involved ESL students are well aware of the lack of quality in academics and the multitude of labor violations occuring "behind the scenes". Stopping this in an industry ten times bigger than Microsoft is extremely difficult and without the students and teachers banding together, virtually impossible.

While other websites have focused on specifics areas such as individual countries or individual cities, ESL Teachers United is focused on the whole of the ESL industry worldwide which includes all ESL schools, all ESL recruiters, all ESL Certification companies, etc. ESL Teachers United believes that a more professional and cooperative approach is needed to improve an industry that often is lacking the structural boundaries and requirements governing most other major industries. We believe mutual cooperation leads to permanent and positive changes whereas blacklisting and smearing have only managed to drastically increase the gap of integrity and respect between ESL companies, ESL teachers and ESL students.