Thank you, Reflections. Others will quickly take umbrage and accuse you and I of not supporting our fellow FT's. My reaction to such an assertion is that the majority of so called Foreign Experts in this country are not experts and are definitely not my colleagues. In that regard I take great effort to disassociate myself from them. Although there are exceptions, those who recognize their own shortcomings and endeavor to right them, the unfortunate truth is that EFL in China is like a ship without ballast captained by a fool who claims it's really not that important. When the ship goes down, the survivors, themselves inexperienced sailors, will claim they knew all along that there was a problem; however, they will never accept that they too must share the blame.

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
George Bernard Shaw