Smith's School of English Watch

The results are in. Smith's School of English ( sse-franchise ) has won the category of Worst Franchise for 2007 by the TEFL Blacklist site. Not too shabby for a group that proclaims itself as " Japan's premiere English teaching franchise system. "

http://teflblacklist.blogspot.com/2007/02/oscar-results-2007.html

A quote from the top of the site's information on the winners:

"1. Smith is clearly a shyster of the first order but to whom? The most useless worthless franchises seems to be the appropriate category."

Well now at least Mark Smith can't say he hasn't won any awards for his " Premiere " and " Proven System ".






Read full article: 'Mark Smith and Smith's School of English named Worst Franchise for 2007'

Head over to the Blacklist and nominate Mark and his "Proven System"

http://teflblacklist.blogspot.com/2007/01/oscars-2007.html

Categories he's a sure fire winner for:

Worst Owner and Overall Winner of Worst School 2007

Check out the full list of categories and just post a comment to leave a nomination for Smith.


Read full article: 'Nominate Mark Smith and Smith's School of English for the TEFL Blacklist Oscars'

Smith and his underlings are at it again in another webforum with more impostering, lying, and the typical disinformation they so readily love to employ. Smith has even tried to have the thread removed to no avail at this point. Check out the link to it in the links section.

Read full article: 'AACircle Thread about Smith's School of English in the Related Links Section'

In the world of professional Magicians and Illusionists, they use a term called "misdirection".

Misdirection involves simply causing the onlooker of the trick to be distracted or confused in their thinking in order to perfom the trick successfully.

This is a technique that Smith loves to employ. Read how he pulls the rabbit out of the hat this time.

Read full article: 'A new link to a new article about Smith on Using English's Website.'

Not only does the link to Amazon.com's review page of the SSE-Franchise website show yet again false advertising shenanigans by Smith and his followers, it shows a bit more of the depths the Smith's School of English will sink to...

Read full article: 'New link in the False Advertising and Spam Section.'

Check out the TEFL Blacklist blog and see the article about Smith's School of English and how they term it to be "pedagogical 'pornography'".

Read full article: 'New Link to a New Article on the TEFL Blacklist Site'

The last parts to the newest article have now been added to the aricles section of the site.

Read full article: 'Cultwatch & Smith's School of English by Comparison: Part 4 and 5 Added!'

Sorry for the delays. The first of the two articles that were planned to go in last week caught me off guard and has blossomed into something a little bit bigger.



Read full article: 'New Article Finally UP'

A second article on Sandy's blog can be found in the in the links section. Sandy's new article on Smith is titled: The Smith Institute of Applied Extortion.

Read full article: 'New Link to a New Article on another Site'

Comments from the old blog that used to be on free-esl have now been added to the articles section!

Read full article: 'Old Blog Article's Comments Added!'

New article(s) will becoming around the beginning of next week.


Read full article: 'New Article(s?) going up next week!'

We're finally up.

Read on for more information.

Read full article: 'We're Up'