Using the same lesson plan for 16 classes a week is ok, as long as you have different classes of students, if you have different levels to teach you can alter lesson plans.

LG does not realize that many older FT's ( over 40 ) do not want to come to China to work hard with long hours. Basically they are there for an easier life compared to back home. I was never really interested in completing more than 16 classes a week when I was in China, but have done 18-22 classes a week before with higher salary, but on the condition of no weekend or night work, and preferably Fridays off.

So, an FT can prepare a decent lesson plan, do their classes. In their spare time ( say Friday, Saturday, Sunday) they can drink beer in bars, chase girls, go to clubs, go to KTV/brothels, whatever. This has nothing to do with a teacher being "lazy" or not, it is their FREE TIME FFS! like you said.

BTW, I agree that in general "Western style" bars in China are crap!

Seems to be an awful lot of wriggling out of things going on in the bullying of LondonGirl process. I imagine LG will be well aware that if you change a lesson plan enough it becomes another and different lesson plan. You are talking about sticking to the same theme using different lesson plans are you not? Quite right, what she said; one plan for all is just not good enough.

As for the preferences of the over 40 FT's- well we only hear about the bums among them and not the vast majority. The vast majority don't have time to write on forums; they have girlfriends and stuff. Just a brief word about unqualified teachers; the degreeless or those with maybe one degree and a TEFL. When they decided to become teachers in China, it wasn't because they were undecided on whether to apply for a job in Poundland or an FT's job, and spun a coin to decide. No, most of them decided that they were good with young people and had a special understanding of English. In my opinion and I don't expect LG to agree with me, those qualities you must have, and the ability to run a class will come naturally after a week or wso of teaching. It's no good just having good teaching methods from training ,if you then go on to mislead your students into using atrocious English. "He's a well trained teacher; highly qualified in imparting total crap and bad grammar."