To make matters worse the Chinese observe the constant backstabbing between the foreign teachers. They have to listen to waves of lies about all the great things many foreign teachers claim they did back in their own countries. One guy sent me a 28 page resume detailing his top secret missions in the CIA and FBI. In China this amounts to a few laughs but in a western society it would amount to fear and caution and no doubt a subsequent investigation leading to an arrest and charges.

As a response to this, I can say that I have personally worked with colleauges who were like that. Rest assured that the local staff and Manager WILL NEVER get involved with these conflicts as it's not in their personal interests in their mindset. You will NOT find any of your colleagues (local and expat) giving you a warm feeling in your heart if you didn't lost some part of yourself to act unethically. You point this out yet at the same time you seem to overlook the VERY CAUSE of this, which is the blatant irresponsibility of the Investors/Management/Staff.

I feel like beating a dead horse regarding the treatment aspect of teachers. But that's why I stopped working in China to begin with.

The first step to solving any problem is to clearly identify that problem. That alone is 50% of the solution.

I find that most of the time people KNOW what the problem is but they refuse to do anything about it. The continuing allowance of issues to decay and decay and decay until it finally reaches full circle is something I have seen too often. It's what happenes when you have children running a business.