Dave-"hobo":
Believe or not, not only you were not alone, most of us are like that, but not many mentioned. The whole Hiring-A-Native business is a farce. All the motivated students except those in the remote West don't need a Native when they all have access to all the affordable media. I know most of us the 'foreign' teachers are doing whatever we can to help the students, but the administration is not really supportive. How many of your libraries have English/English dictionaries? How many of the officials talked about and shared your problems with you? How many cared about your qualification? How many of them understand what a certificate realy meant. They just want 'to have' foreign teacher, they don't really care how much we can do to the students. Most of the parents would be satisfied if the school 'have' foreigners teaching their kids, they never know how much their kids got. To be quite frankly, that's a huge waste to the country's economy, both in the fund and in the existing Chinese human resource bank.
Alex Wu,