Number 5 Middle School in YC is the worst.

Imagine a Chinese version of an inner city school. Kids making out in class in the second row, insolence non stop, and when you try to discipline them, they get in your face and threaten you.

China is messed up on an infinite number of levels.

One of them is that parents with any money, even just middle class, will buy entrance to a branding middle school to make their useless sons look good. Then they buy entrance to a university that does the same. Then they buy their job and sit around and drink and smoke all day.

Schools charge more the lower their ck or gk scores are.

Yikes re number 5! It sounds a dreadful place to teach.

Yanhua was bad enough to have sickened IELTS School's flagship FT, "T" from Canada. He had taught grade 1 there for 2 semesters on the trot, during which time he refused to teach 2 classes, as well as showing many classes kung fu movies every class because they were totally disinterested in English. Funny thing was that "Q" from Ghana proclaimed very proudly that he had discovered how to control the very stubborn boys of grade 2, yet he was shunted from there to a junior middle school in the city. I can't figure that one out. Give the TAs their due though, they did forewarn us all how lousy a school Yanhua was, not that that would have been of much consolation to the unlucky pair of FTs to be placed there, except for "Q", of course! He seemed to thrive there!