The teachers here, most of them, are not certified. The falling down drunk thing is 80% accurate as many of the teachers hang out at a place owned by an IB teacher's wife. Many of them drink like fish. I cannot say much about that because other than watching rerun DVD's and walking around at Wal-Mart, drinking is a past time of many here. Many of the FT's here are like little puppets and they stab each other in the back when they get bored. I came to China for experience and I am certainly getting that here at Huijia. Unfortunately it is not teaching experience that I am getting, but experience in staying alive and avoiding back stabbing A-holes that kiss butts.

Unfortunately, I have to agree with your assessment of some so-called foreign teachers in China from my past experiences while teaching countrywide. As I didn't come to this country to meet westerners, I'm able to enjoy myself perfectly well outwith their company. In fact, I think I have managed to have a safe and happy existence here so far only by not getting involved with them socially. Once some of them have drunk too much, they can turn really nasty, but others are nasty too, having adopted some bad aspects of Chinese culture by having been in the country for a long time. The worst ones are the self-serving grovelling weasels, whose numbers are not inconsequential.