With respect, poster 'Michael' didn't say he had been a teacher in the UK prior to leaving there to teach in China. His take on teaching in the UK might well have emanated from his schoolboy esperiences in the UK, during which he felt sorry for the digusting manner in which the sons and daughters of the great unwashed of said developed land treated their teachers there at that time, and probably now too.

After all, most of China's foreign teachers, probably he is among them, are unqualified to teach anything as real teachers in the west, and so aren't given the chance to do so by western governments. That could be a blessing in disguise!

Thanks for correcting me. The message remains the same though; and qualified teachers should join their itinerant teaching brethren in China, where teaching is far pleasanter than in The UK. If we get some feedback from the itinerant variety teachers of their classroom experience of teaching conditions in The UK; that will do nicely.