Working with Chinese kids at kindergarten level can be quite stressful and annoying for certain FTs (you have to play the role of a white monkey in a muppet show which makes you lose your own self-respect), and I would hate to take such a job, also knowing that I wouldn't be able to give these kids what I may owe them. Therefore, I would never accept such a job in the first instance. I am just wondering all the time about the stupidity of many Chinese school or "school" operators who just think that a Western FT can teach all age groups. Well, I cannot - I would consider myself a relatively good teacher for students at uni and college level, but I am absolutely useless in a kindergarten environment or at Primary School level.

I did know a great big bloke of an FT who taught nippers and loved it and they loved him. He had a special gift for it and didn't look at all like a white monkey; although other FT's I witnessed teaching did look stupid. I agree with you, I couldn't handle the little shits. You personally would be wasted doing it because of your education-as for me, my disposition is totally wrong- even the 16 year olds go green when i tell them a bit about myself, because they have asked. Still it's all valuable work for some FT's and you can't blame the Chinese for milking a few bob out of it. When I applied for jobs in China I would tell them I do not in any circumstances whatsoever teach young children. Ft's have only themselves to blame for finding themselves in a position where they have to entertain toddlers and they don't want to. I feel a lot of them agree to it at the offset and then find it does not suit them-well, hard luck I say.