I have been on the road for the last couple of days so I havent been able to post,. I will finally respond to you.

For the last time Im not that old. I might even be your peer or (GASP) younger than you. What benefit do you gain from repeating the mantra of calling me and others dinosaurs and old?? Do you expect that by saying this OVER AND OVER AGAIN that people reading the posts will think the bad things which happen in chinese esl industry are distant things of the past?? I think this makes you look like you have something to hide. On the other hand you might now call me nave and inexperienced.

From what you have been writing for the last couple of days, its obvious you have no clue as to how things work at training schools. You ability to think outside the box is non-existent. The idea of the sociopathic DOS being replaced by a supposedly good DOS which will SEEMINGLY RESOLVE ALL PROBLEMS AT THE SCHOOL IS LAUGHABLE. The BOSS/OWNER controls everything. Should students not be entertained and stop paying the school even if the teacher is trying to teach instead of entertain and if you were the DOS and you liked the teacher you would still have to talk to them about changing their teaching methods. YOU HAVE WHINED and complained that we dont understand you, that in fact training schools can provide an effective method of teaching which public schools cannot offer. Yet you have NOT SAID ONE THING which demonstrates you know how to balance entertainment and education. You have not provided EVEN ONE RESOLUTION on HOW you will go about making your education to people beneficial and contribute to actual progress with Chinese education.

You basically have been making one point and one point only, that no matter what happens in the esl world you believe that you can make a difference by providing real education through the private training sector. Well you should know you have your work cut out for you. Now if you really HAD SO MUCH CONFIDENCE in changing the private education scene in china why would you be so worried about what me, Turnoi, and others have to say??? After all were just old geezers (supposedly) who have nothing better to do than to act bitter and spew hot air (to borrow one of your phrases). The fact that you spend so much time and effort trying to shut us up shows us apparently YOUR RESOLUTION TO END ALL ESL PROBLEMS IS TO MAKE PEOPLE WHO CRITICIZE THIS BUSINESS SILENT. Yeah talk about a resolution, eh?

I should apologize to Turnoi when I told him in an earlier post that you have no relations with Yuming. Well I now think maybe you do have relations with Yuming and/or other crappy private education branches in China. You claim to do research on bad educational sectors, private or public yet you willingly jump out to the aid of a place which has gotten so many complaints from the past. What are you so afraid of? Maybe YOUR SCHOOL HAS DONE SIMILAR THINGS TO OTHER TEACHERS IN THE PAST. You are afraid of these kinds of problems being laid out to public because teachers which have been shafted by the very school you work at YORK would be able to relate and establish a network with each other and warn other new teachers to stay the hell away. You seem very eager to cover our arguments with your posts of how supposedly things are getting better and there will be roses tomorrow and yada yada yada. Well I have very bad news for you, those very teachers who used to work AT YORK most definitely know how to contact people who have worked at Yuming and other hellish places. The internet is very handy, and you cannot cover the WHOLE INTERNET.

Your methods of covering up your own schools deceit and possible criminal activities have only served to expose you for who you are. I can say with utmost confidence and assurance that:

WARNING TO ALL FOREIGN TEACHERS: Do NOT work for Kevin and his boss at York School in Fuzhou!!! These are people with an obvious agenda to hide and STOP AT NOTHING TO FOOL PEOPLE. They know how hard it is to get people to work there, and it's even harder now that they've shot themselves in the foot.