I agree that to stay happy in China, foreign teachers need to have a different world view and expectations. In addition, China is a great country with great people and I have lived here for many years. Also, your statement about maintaining a cheerful disposition, doing the best we can with a bad situation and letting go of needing excellence when it's not possible and striving for it when it is have helped me along the way, is on point! Fortunately, you haven't worked for KISQ and you haven't seen what they have done to there foreign teachers first hand. They just let their most qualified high school teacher go, their only accredited high school teacher, before the two month holiday break of January and February. This high school science teacher, Don, was the best paid teacher at KISQ. Chances are they replaced Don with someone who isn't accredited and who makes a few thousand less RMB a month. Ask anyone currently working at KISQ, who replaced Don and then ask them if this person is an accredited teacher. Furthermore, ask the high school students how many teachers they have had and ask them if their foreign teachers left KISQ on a good note because they will tell you the truth. Hopefully, that is why you are here, looking for the truth?