They say the school that employed the two expats did not have the proper certification to hire foreign English teachers.

I wonder if I met the woman. Likely. Shanxi ESL community is very small. I met several women from the states who meet the description.

A reminder that many of the schools in Shanxi employ under the table, and of course Yuncheng EV will shuffle the ESL T about as they skirt the regulations. I have met several teachers, each year from 2009-2015, who told me of shady procedures that suggested EV was not going the legit route with that particular teacher.

To be fair, there *are* teachers that EV goes legit with each year but how they decide who is whom is a mystery.

Must be why friends back there report open contracts with EV, and other Ts shuttling about covering classes.

If you can deal with China, or you have capture-bonded with the culture. then the increased salary will be a good thing.