This was not always the case, but the market is becoming more and more saturated with foreigners, so schools feel they can get away with more crap; because there is always someone else waiting to take up the reins.

Agree about too many foreigners in China, another good reason to seek work elsewhere, unless you can get a high paying NON teaching job there. But how many foreigners have a good enough command of Chinese (not just spoken, reading and writing is more important) to get a job elsewhere in China? How many have qualifications or business know how to succeed in that growing market?

Pay peanuts, attract monkeys...and there are plenty of white and brown monkeys with irrelevant/no education in China who need peanuts it seems?!

Case in point: An aussie mate I know is a head chef at a 5 star hotel in Shanghai, RMB is mere petty cash to him, it's his allowance, he gets paid in aussie dollars in his home bank account, so is it any wonder foreign teachers get looked down upon for earning what to most businessmen/non teaching expats amounts to a monthly allowance?