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Yingwen Laoshi - 2006-07-02

Oops! I Meant to insert an embarrassed red face here, but I couldn't find a 'smiley'. Ironically although I have been the only one to respond to you so far Frank, I was probably also the only one who didn't fully understand your point. The fault was MINE. I'm sure it was clear to most people.

Looking at it more closely I can see what you mean. It looks like whoever wrote it, spent all of TWO SECONDS on it, and yes a typo is one thing, but one on a keyword on the title of an advert on the Internet, is another.

Everything is too vague. Not least the question of who the hell they are!. There is no contact name or phone number, and no real name of the school or entity we are being invited to work for, except for the vague 'English center in North of China'. The only contact available looks like somebody's personal e-mail address. It all smacks of some poor, desperate individual sitting in a small dark, secret room, planning, cunning schemes to make a financial killing (Hell, it sounds like ME! The story of my life! Only kidding...I hope).

You could almost imagine the 'beed teacher' term being a form of code that only those tuned in to such enterprises would understand. There isn't even any formal invitation to reply, that you would normally find in job adverts.

There's no doubt that any teacher with a bit of experience in China would have no trouble in seeing this for what it is. However, the advice for those NEW to China is to KEEP AWAY from adverts such as this.

I thank you again for bringing this to people's attention. One thing maybe not appreciated here is that it's not just important to review schools on this forum, but also any ADVERTS that sound dodgy. Credit to you, Frank, for pointing this one out.

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