Thank you for this post. I totally agree with you.

> My experience hiring native teachers who go outside their classroom
> lecturing other people about the right use of English language is
> just bad. Inside the classroom these teachers never bother to use the
> same lecture or passion to teach English to the students. Just lazy
> and uniterested. I've to admit, that the same way as we have
> peasants, white English speaking countries also have tones of them,
> many of them end it up coming to China to teach English. The signs
> are so obvious: They lecture anybody who does not agree with them
> with the ridiculous excuse of the *right use of English* or they use
> this fool pretext when engaging in discussions with people smarter
> than them. If they are from America, they call the directors
> anti-American without realizing that they are a disgrace as
> representatives of America. I'm sure most smarter Americans will
> agree with this point. Bottom line, we fired 3 native teachers this
> year and we hired 2 Filipinos and one Cameroonian, very nice
> teachers! We offered them the same conditions and salary than the
> other 3 fired. The new teachers are very grateful and our students
> like them very much. We still have 2 nice couples of teachers from
> the US and Canada for 2 and 4 years. We like them as family.
> Presently, we are preparing to take by train our 14 English teachers,
> and 30 Chinese teachers to a week trip to Mongolia as a present to
> their professionalism.

> Thank you for your time.