It's good to hear some news which makes you feel like there is actually hope once in a while, and your story about the "school" being forced to go to the ATM to pay their teachers right then and there show that.

Whether or not the general attitude of the FEB all over China is willing to change remains to be seen. I myself have been to the Foreign Experts Bureau to complain about my school, only to see the people at the FEB be in cahorts with the school's admins. Asking me to pay a bribe to the school's admins was what the FEB did.

Shanghai is Shanghai, it's a big international city and the cultural mindset of the city is very different from almost everywhere else in China. We cannot trust the government in china to do something about this until we actually see real results from FEB bureaus everywhere, not just in internationalized places such as Shanghai.