Dear Chinese Teacher,

I join my colleague, Jack Kanoi, in lauding your forthrightness in condemning the mendacious statements made to potential EFL recruits by so many schools and agencies in China. Rather than propagandizing the fiction which inevitably empties so many teachers' pockets, wouldn't it be better for all concerned if the nefarious culprits involved were to deploy the same amount of energy in seeking out a more positive, aboveboard solution to the question of a (foreign) guest instructor's survival in the PRC? Gadzooks! I hope something (ANYTHING!) effective can be done quickly to resolve this annoying issue.

Peace,
Ellis

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> I do feel sorry for most foreign teachers engaged by schools in
> China. Most recruiters and schools keep lying about the salary
> offered to foreign teachers. Most claim that we chinese teachers are
> paid less than foreign teachers, which is actually not true.

> I've been teaching for 2 years now and my salary is more if not on
> par with 2 the foreign teachers in my school. My salary, including
> bonus and incentives is around 2800-3000rmb/month for 12 lesson a
> week. The two foreign teacher are being paid 3000 and getting 18
> lessons.

> Some of my older collegues are even getting more. One way for you
> people to find out is to look at teachers who smoke. A collegue of my
> told the Foreign teachers that he is only getting 1500, Rubbish. He
> smoke 2 packets of cigarettes a day, costing about 30rmb and that
> will cost him 900rmb. How could he live with 600 and month,. He has a
> wife , 2 children and has to feed his parents,too. What I hear is
> that he is getting 3600rmb.He has a motorbike and his wife has a
> motorised bicycle.