Raoul wrote:

Authority?
I have no authority on this board. I make no claim to any. I do have a lot of experience with EFL in China, but on this site I'm just another poster like anyone else.

No offense Raoul but just saying that doesn't make it true. Are you not "an accepted source of expert information or advice" here? Are there not a couple articles written by you lodged directly under the School and Recruiter Reviews header? Do you not have your own forum where you are the final judge of everything, and where you might have influential conversations about what goes on here in your inner sanctum? Whether you like it or not you obviously have a lot of weight here, and saying you don't is disingenuous.

If you want to crow over basically having an "argument" deemed not worth arguing with, please, knock yourself out.

The argument was worth having, and you happened to have made some misjudgements and premature statements that happened to conflict with the facts and the greater reality.

I just don't care. Whatever points can be made have been made; after that it's a vision issue.

Points have been made but there has been no concession. Some things are "vision issues," such as your statement that there's no logic in China, which is patently false because China has a space program and the world's 2nd GDP. Logic is being employed all over China every day. Other things, such as facts about what is and was common practice regarding 12 month pay periods for public school teachers are not merely vision. After I sited sources which supported my my position in general (though I admitted being wrong about it being common practice for all public school teachers to get 12 month contracts initially, when it was only given to those continuing on and highly qualified individuals), and countered yours, you wouldn't concede any point.

You never admitted to making a gaff in saying we get paid 10 months for 10 months of work, either, when we never fully work 10 months.

Unless you DO have authority, your accusation of "crowing" holds no weight, especially because you've made the weaker arguments. As for the intrinsic merit of what you say, I'd have more respect for you if you could lower yourself to admit you got anything wrong for any reason. Meanwhile, you've fought on the wrong side of the fence on this issue. And speaking of logic, there is no logic in the post you made and which I am responding to, it is all just assertion.