Dear Nancy,

Foreign teachers seldom complain about students. Most foreign teachers treasure their time with Chinese students who generally treat teachers with much more respect than Western students.

Foreign teachers in China are concerned about a university's housing for FTs, the university's salary for FTs, the number of hours that the university requires FTs to teach and attend meetings and produce reports, and the location of the university, its distance from downtown.

I've taught in Fuzhou. The University Town is quite far from downtown and University Town is only now developing shopping and entertainment. Fuda and Fushida are more than 5 miles from Cangshan Wangda. Your school is about 10 miles away.

The school has asked you to write this post because they are having difficulty recruiting for September 2017. This is a problem throughout China because of the Native English Speaking, Criminal background check, and degree apostillization requirements. There are simply more teaching jobs than qualified applicants now.

If you school wants to hire competent FTs, they need to raise the salaries, reduce the hours, and improve the FT housing.

For your benefit, and your classmates, I hope that they do.