Thanks for posting some meat, not just watered down gravy, on here.

You'l be pleased to know that your colleague Paul is still enjoying his time in Yuncheng very much, though he doesn't work for IELTS 'School'!

No matter, each to his own.

Good to see you contradicting Silverboy. He's a know-it-all quoting generalisms, and has been put in his place firmly and inextricably.

I'm not condoning what you're at in China, but good luck to you all the same - you've got sufficient intelligence to screw the system here!

I will not encourage FT's to work illegally at crappy schools in China or other Asian countries. That is exactly the position Manuel will be in if he goes to China, he will be an illegal immigrant, as he won't have a proper visa.

So, a white South African who was teaching with an L on behalf of a different Yuncheng agent than mine as one of the pair of FTs teaching at a public senior high in a Yuncheng county, ! being the other one, should never have come to China to teach in the first place according to your mindset. Furthermore, he had no right at all to gaily go to HK with some of his colleagues to get Z visas, some 5 weeks after starting to teach illegally here. Unless he'd done so, he'd probably still be washing dishes in a rich man's restaurant in Durban, a degreed dishwasher in a deadend job.

Your point about said school being crappy has been contradicted not just by me. As for said school, the readers can decide for themselves. Whether they apply for jobs there or not is their business, and I care not whether they do so or not. In fact, I'm retired now, albeit on standby, and am still interested in what's happening in EFL here. In the event of a school having been let down by an FTi runner or the tragic death of an FT, I'm ready to fill said unexpected vacancy, and don't mind teaching illegally in the process. I can be there in a few days. I'll go for that kind of vacancy if the pay is fair. It doesn't always pay to follow visa regs to the letter.