> my gut feeling tells me it's just a ready excuse to prevent hiring
> africans or african americans..."blacks" as termed by
> asians, from teaching the "queens" english to
> "non-black" asian people.

One thing for sure, the word discrimination doesn't exist in our University. Two of our former British teachers were "Black", and they told us that they were migrants from Nigeria. The other teacher from Singapore is a Chinese and one of the Canadian is an Indian. So I don't believe that our University has ever discriminated Blacks or non-native speakers.

It's a case of "One bad apple spoils the whole bunch".

The problem with our former Cameroonian teacher is that he is simply lazy. On many occasions he would simply come into the classroom and declare it a free lesson, meaning we do what we want. He always comes in late sometimes up to 20 minutes and on a few occasions he did not even show up. The only time that he was punctual was his first lesson.

Im not saying that all schools in China are good, some are bloodsuckers and some will go all the way to milk even the very last fen that we poor miserable students have in our pocket

I've been reading threads about foreign teachers complaining about living conditions and things like that, but what about we students, where or who do we go to to air our grievances when we get crappy teachers like him.

How much do you really know about China, its system and most of all, we poor students? Put yourself in our shoes and I'm sure you will be pulling your hairs out.

Our parents toils from the first to the last light 365 days a year to see us through our education and you expect us to pay a huge sum of school fees to get crappy foreign teachers like him.

Well I proud to say that our all our foreign teachers, except for the Cameroonian, have taught us well.