26 days, but you want 1 month salary? It is common sense that you would get paid on the 26th of the next month. I guess you are used to getting hourly wage... weekly paychecks? Yeah, you should probably go back to that.

I taught at a high school in USA. I was manager of 3 cinemas in USA. And I taught in China since 2007. At all those places, it is good to try to ration and save things. Do not waste papers. Some inexperience foreign teachers print too much paper. They print the lesson plans and follow the lesson plans verbatim. And they show the lesson plans to the students which, I guess the teachers do not understand they are the ones who are supposed to use it and change it some. I think many people have culture shock. What I mean by this, is that many foreigners think things are different in China and their home countries, but it is not. I don't know any place that thinks it is ok to waste paper. Every place should want to save paper, resources, money, etc. They have business training like Six Sigma or 3S which is developed in other countries, even used in companies like GM and GE, to save money. But you only want to say in NDI or China wants to do this. I have been to other private schools in China like WEB, etc. They try to save there too. I mean, I know teachers plan hours and hours, and they have to take the lesson plans or copy the lesson plans to class so they can remember basic words and topics like "weather" or "house." If you need to to copy and prepare to remember to teach basic words like things in the house and rooms, you are missing something. You use case studies.

I think Education is on their mind. It depends what school you go to. I have worked for NDI for two years, and I love it. They have very high standard for teacher, and they only want the best. Other schools will keep horrible teachers who do tons of immoral things. Don't act like you know care about education too. You probably could not be a teacher in your home country. I was a teacher in USA. I got my certification. I bought a house in China. The last part is important because to travel legally for Chinese people to other countries, and even sort of for foreigners to China, but no one checks, is that you are suppposed to take money. I know once before, they did a background check to see if a foreigner who wanted to come to China to make sure he had 20,000 rmb. This is government requirements. Many people when they travel here, they travel like hobos and they need the salary so bad. That is your fault. 26th of next month. You did not even complete 1 month. You started Novemeber, and wanted to get paid a month's salary for 26th days of work? Um? Logic, it might help. This is the same in USA. You know, I know maybe you are used to minimum wage or hourly wage, but monthly salary means you have to work at least one month. Not 26 days. ..

You say you care about education, but you probably know nothing about education in your home country or in China. You know BEC, IELTS, TOELF, TOEIC, you taught kindergarten? You taugh high school in China? You saw the homework? I wasn an IELTS tester before. You read books about tests in China? I knew one teacher in a school before, taught for 16 years, and a Chinese student went to her and said, "I wanted to study BEC." That foreign teacher said, "Oh, we don't have BEC level here. We have BE and BA level." She thought BEC was a level at the school. This foreign teacher did not know BEC was a test in China.

NDI in Changzhou is a great school. I have been here 2 years. It might change in the future as all places can do. Some other schools you mentioned, like EF or WEB or Wallstreet, some of them are bad. They have bad teachers, bad managers. You can't say one school is bad so they are all bad. Generalizing. Of course every school has different bosses or management.

I would probably fire you. You can't be lost in the mystique in China. Some people follow these lesson plans word by word, and you cannot do that. Those lesson plans are outlines for you to use. You have to think about how to use that material in your class where it is interesting and useful for the students. Most foreign teachers come to China and they teach baby English to adults. 80% or 90% of foreign teachers in China are horrible. They would be fired in their home countries and they should be fired here.