Frank, I appreciate your replies. Your input is very informative. However, you caught me here about a year too late. I'm done, man. I don't care about this ESOL thing enough anymore to worry about it. The reality has pretty much drenched my fire-in-the-belly passion. A reality that sees me playing all the non-teaching roles these businesses-posing-as-schools expect me to play.

In a way, I'm now the ultimate ESOL hypocrite. I came into this with the idea that I'd save students from the capitalist meat grinder. Now I'm finding that not only am I actually FEEDING that grinder, many here actually WANT to be fed into it. What makes me a hypocrite is I stay in it now that I know the truth. Well, that's gonna get fixed real soon.

Perhaps I can land some sort of position in North Korea? Nah. I bet the shop keepers in even NK wear the Coca-cola aprons.

There's no escaping the market system. These countries many of us teach in are nothing but colonies meant to be exploited by the western powers.
Our efforts here make that exploitation easier for those powers. Well, I'm having nothing of it. I'm gone, brother.