One can still use one's own logic within China, and if they can't use it we can to outsmart and outmaneuver them.

Oh, wow. That's, uh...quite a statement. Good luck with that.

There seems to be a sense of entitlement in all this that I just don't understand.
Warren, you seem determined to portray 10-month contracts as a scam. I don't agree, but I wish you all the best.

Wish you the best, too, however, as you say, we don't see eye to eye on this. I've already shown that there is a 12 month contract (I have it myself), that returning teachers used to customarily be given it, and that qualified teachers with experience can negotiate for it. If universities are making returning teachers with qualifications take summer jobs, they are screwing them, and it is a change for the worse. You can disagree with me, but can you refute my argument?

About the "entitlement" comment. I can't see what you are trying to get at. Yes, a teacher does have some power, can negotiate, and can call a spade a spade when public schools increasingly decide to roll back the 12 month contract to a 10 month contract.

If you want "entitlement," you got it with the people who feel entitled to shortchange the foreign teachers and pocket the difference. I'm probably just being "realistic."