will look into that one. I had trouble getting astrill to work on tablet in China, but worked awesomely on my old laptop.

Just use a VPN on your mobile device then. It ain't that difficult, lol. Some service providers even provide apps to make things a little easier, although merely tweaking the network settings on your device will do the job perfectly fine.

if you try to force it artificially through the use of wumao tactics (such as those that Beth uses),

So that pretty much means that you want to turn it into yet another shitty ESL site full of job ads for crappy training centres and rather amateurishly made conversation lesson plans for teachers that are too lazy or hungover to make their own?

I do not think she intends or means that per se. She just wants a bit more serious discussion about teaching methodology and so on, as opposed to enquiring about bargain basement prices for vietnamese hookers. It is an esl teaching board after all, not craigslist or worldsexguide.

I don't think that will be happening .

Perhaps this board should have eslcafe style moderation. At least the mods would know who is posting and from what IP. Allow only one handle per IP, it would eliminate a lot of problems that are present now such as one person being able to post with many different nicknames. But that is up to the mods ultimately.

No, I'd like to see it as a site where teachers can discuss teaching practice and exchange tips and ideas. This is especially helpful for new teachers who are thrown in at the deep end, often unqualified and inexperienced, in a school somewhere in Asia.

The only reason you are in opposition to this is because we all know you have nothing constructive or helpful to add past your tagline of "All TCs are rubbish, crappy scams!" - Which is neither true nor helpful to anyone.

I'm beginning to understand that the term "GW" is applied to somebody who cares about thier work and students, always does thier best for thier students and is continually researching and developing new ideas for different classroom activities. In which case I really don't object to this moniker. If you are applying it to somebody who does anything to appease their boss, then applying it to me is ridiculous as nothing could be further from the truth. My priority is my students education, not towing whatever party line the management has. The thing is, as you'd be aware of if you were as dedicated a teacher as I am, if your priority is your students, you're boss is usually very happy with the situation. If they aren't concerned with education, only profits, then as several posters here can attest to, I have been the very opposite of groveling; having stand up shouting matches with the "DoS" over their abhorrent practices, and continuing to teach in the way best for my students, regardless of how difficult that made my life outside of the classroom. You call me a "GW" because you operate under the fallacy that I support all TCs, everywhere in th world. I don't, I never have. You ignore this because you are a troll.

You have been given the opportunity to have an actual discussion on teaching methodology in the past and have either been unable to keep up or have resorted to insults and off topic vulgarity. Another reason you want to keep the board in the gutter.

The only teachers who would require conversation lesson plans because they are too lazy or hungover to make thier own is SM&SB, the rest of us take more pride in our work and teach more than just conversation. And so no, lesson plan swapping is not what I am suggesting, open discussion regarding teaching strategies is. At no point have I mentionedadvertising. Bad schools deserve all they get and should be closed. That is not to say I agree that all private schools are bad. You're incomprehension of this simple fact is astounding.

So that pretty much means that you want to turn it into yet another shitty ESL site full of job ads for crappy training centres and rather amateurishly made conversation lesson plans for teachers that are too lazy or hungover to make their own?

I don't think that will be happening .

We all know that you are just another GW.

Don't ever think that because that because decent posters often have better things to do like going to the pub and talking to real people (or indeed banging hookers), that we'll all of a sudden start to go easy on the GW's and TC lackeys.

It will be difficult to turn this board.

The constant ranting has been pretty entertaining.

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