There are more than a few former teachers from the West, including Australia and New Zealand, of course, teaching English here in China. They are in a position to make comparisons between what certified teachers generally have to do back home compared to here to earn their salaries. I wonder if YOU are. I'm one of them, and I can tell you that I've never had less stressful teaching jobs than here in China. Not only that, I get loads of free time. I'm virtually working parttime for a fulltime salary. That's just great in my opinion. No office hours, no marking of homework and no assessments of my students. Prepare one 45 minute lesson a week with the help of my Chinese teaching assistant, a sexy, long-legged young thing, by the way, and regurgitate it eighteen times. I'm not even teaching every weekday. Fridays are free. So, it's a four-day working week. On Wednesday I only teach 2 lessons in the morning, so the afternoon is free, as is the case on Tuesday, but after a morning of 4 lessons. The situation here for foreign teachers at Chinese senior middle schools is so good compared to doing the same job back home. And because the cost of living is so low, and my apartment is rent-free, I'm managing to save 3,000 Yuan/month from my 5,000 Yuan salary without having to make every penny a prisoner in the shops. I'm working in the state sector, and it suits me just fine. I'm totally disinterested in training centre jobs. I know they're not a soft option. I don't need the extra money I could get working there - besides, working for a trsining centre would mean far less free time and much more accountability. Accountability can mean stress. Neither do I want evening classes nor weekend classes. Back home as a subject teacher in a comprehensive school, I only taught Monday to Friday, every morning and every afternoon, but 25 classes a week involving the preparation of 6 lesson plans, the marking of homework, and the assessment of my students. Thankfully, there were no evening classes or weekend classes. But I had to attend parents' nights, 3 per academic year, without ovvertime payments. Include discipline problems into the equation, and you can see for yourself how unattractive teaching high school students is in the West compared to doing that job in China.
As far as I'm concerned, those greedy for higher salaries are welcome to apply for jobs at training centres and private schools. Despite all the warnings on the boards, there will be those who choose to go there to teach. Some of them will of course get shown the door after a few weeks, whereas others will burn themselves out after a couple of months. I've no sympathy with any of them whatsoever. Serves them right for ignoring the warnings.