Hello, Jerry!

It seems you might be the VERY person Diana is warning others about in the final sentence of her post.

I COMPLETELY disagree with you regarding what is fair, or unfair to students.

At almost every school in China (except one) where I have taught, I have enjoyed a wonderful relationship with my students. However, I have also endured so much underhanded and unethical behavior, greediness, apathy, etc, from employers. Foreigner teachers should not accept these conditions and bad treatment from employers just for the sake of the students. Students (and their parents) are customers, and they need to rise up and fight on behalf of their interests and those of their teachers. Otherwise, they cannot expect the teachers to stay and teach/help them.

If Diana is wrong in her claims regarding lack of proper licensing of schools in the area, then state (legitimately) otherwise; but until now, you havent done so.

Bad treatment from employers and lack of legal licensing is good enough and fair enough information to warn foreigners to stay away from Tonghua.

If you are indeed the "Jerry" she is warning us about, clearly your ONLY motive is your own financial benefit. Recrutiters in China will say and do almost anything to lure unsuspecting and trusting foreigners into terrible and unethical and unprofessional situations in order to make money for themselves.

This has nothing to do with the rights of students. If you feel so strongly about students in Jilin should have then work harder to correct the problems that TEACHERS face there. Then we can return to the business teaching and helping students.