The only guiding line should be is whether the school is sound, does its job without brainwashing the students, is a real place of learning with a stimulating and challenging learning environment and is run by people of integrity.

This is the foundation for a school to make a real difference, whether religious or not, and nothing else.

One of China's first linguists in the 19th century was Ma Jianzhong. He graduated from a Jesuite college in Fujian province, was sent to France to study law and later became a court official to represent the Chinese Imperial side in the negotiations for the Treaty of Nanjing in the period following the Opium Wars. He was the one to write the first grammar on Chinese ever written in China's long history of several thousand years. It is called Mashi Wentong and is still held in high esteem in contemporary China.

You have provided good sensible information and advice. Sadly another poster attempted to knock my post off course without replacing it with anything better.

As we were at the start of the thread. You can't hit your students in the West and get gay support from their parents. As a teacher in China you will be less likely to be beaten up than at Exeter Comprehensive.