Let's suppose we all are working together and having a meeting in one school on mainland China. On the table, there are a few issues to discuss. Here below they are described one by one.

So many FT's in China are self-serving and lazy. They do not wish to co-operate with one another. They wouldn't even want to discuss the issues on the table you have brought up. They'd rather lie low and sweep all the problems you mention under the carpet. Their sole aim is to complete the contract, and then move on, hopefully to a better school. The newbies are the most likely not to rock the boat. They'll either stick it out or pull runners. A bottom-of-the-barrel employer here, lie the one you describe, will get more than his fair share of bottom-of-the- barrel foreign weasels who know how to survive in a lousy workplace environment. They earn good money for doing little real teaching. At the end of each month, they'll still have plenty of money left if they are somewhat economical with their finances during the month. That's something they could never achieve back home. That scenario is still a lot better than being a waiter in the west. Even as teachers back there, they'd be working at least twice as hard, but would not be able to save any significant sums of money month by month. And I'm talking about the public sector, not about training centres nor private schools!