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Extc - 2010-04-11
In response to Henan Business College - zhengzhou, Henan Province (Charles England)

Dear Charles,

I can fully sympathize. I am at a College in Hunan, and this what me and the other two foreign teachers here have experienced so far:

  • Asked to teach western culture with no long term goals or real materials.

  • Schedule changed several times without us being informed.

  • Tests held in the middle of the year without prior notice, teachers had to stay up late into the night to make an improvised test.

  • Staff including professors who failed to deal with our basic requests (ie use of a printer.)

  • Any complaints met with abuse from the head of the waiban, teachers and their families spoken down to like they were kids & threats to not renew contracts etc.

  • No explanations given for anything.

  • Department encourages students to make complaints about foreign teachers, creating a barrier between us and them.

  • Chinese teachers who spread malicious rumours about FTs, especially the one of us who is African.

  • Inability to promptly repair broken equipment in FT's apartments, one teacher had to live for a fortnight without hot water.

  • Salary late, a few times, but we did not mind this.

  • Medical dispensary once gave an FT radiation poisoning medicine for a mild stomach complaint.

  • School guards and other staff who report on you behind your back.

  • Lecturers in the political department who spread political hatred against western culture.

  • Students so rude to you & launch political attacks on you in class!

    • The thing to do is just ride it out until the end of your contract, then move on. Unfortunately, where I am, there are no opportunities except at places that have the above traits.

    As the Chinese say, just tolerate it: 忍 [Knife over your heart]!

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    Henan Business College - zhengzhou, Henan Province -- Charles England -- 2010-04-11
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