With such mindset no Chinese can seriously be surprised to have learned nothing except pre-made sentences after years of learning English, just like Chinese college degrees worth nothing on the global market, their training centers are a joke. The whole educational system has to be reformed from scratch and people’s mind has to evolve to accept a rewarding system instead of a bribe system, or China will never be able to compete with Western countries or even with Japan and Korea in this domain.

Just because people were born in the US or UK doesn’t mean that their English is better, I have been working with a guy from Canada who wrote “beatle” instead of “beetle” during one of his classes where he was talking about bugs, and of course none of the students said anything even if they knew (I heard them whispering in Chinese about his mistake) because he his the all mighty native and thus can’t be wrong.

It doesn’t even mean that they know better about Anglo Saxon culture, some dude told me that regular bacon is beef, I could not stop to laugh my arse off right in front of him.

In all my years teaching in China I have seen many losers, many foreign garbages who came here just because they were not employable in their home countries, all of them were from countries where English is the official language.

Of course there are also very nice, motivated and caring native teachers in China, but it is so easy for all the losers to get a teaching job over here (just because they are native speakers) that the good ones are a minority.

@Tarun Ashanti

Seems like you’re protesting a bit too much.

If it was money problems, the school would want to save money. But… this is a really stupid area to save maybe 2000RMB/teacher when the school probably already shells out much more than this per month.

Many schools and companies fail to process visa’s because they are not legally allowed to do so. Only certain legal entities in China are able to process a visa. JVs and WOFEs can. Domestic companies need a certain amount of guanxi or be of a certain scale in order to give a visa. But usually this problem happens at small scam English schools, and even then they often find a way around it.

The HR Manager may just be stupid and lazy as shit. That happens allot. She could’nt be bothered to do the job.

Any thoughts on which reason?

I taught along side Neil.

I was hired by Leile Li, she claimed to be the head of HR, but later I was informed she is actually the school owners daughter.

She hired me and I never received my Work “Z” Visa, as promised in the contract.

During this time, Beijing officials were checking Foreigners Visas, (100 day sweep) due to an earlier alleged rape of a local citizen by a foreigner.

Leile Li would tell me, “If asked, you are here on a cultural exchange”.

I have been teaching in Mainland and Hong Kong, China for 7 years. At both, International school and Universities. Every other school I worked with gave me a Work “Z” Visa.

At the time I taught there, I knew other foreign teachers who also did not have a Work “Z” Visa from the school.

I’m surprised to hear about Neil and I’m sick to my stomach to hear about the alleged abuses to the children!

I hope someone will go check out Leile Li and ask her why she hires teachers without providing Work “Z” Visas!!

Meanwhile, as a father of four, I would pull my children out of that school so damn quick!

A concerned Foreign teacher who loves China and it’s people.

It ain’t gonna happen in my lifetime, but it is what I wish. If wishes were fishes, and so forth.

Also, along the wishing thang, wish shit-bag foreign teachers would spend less time frequenting bars, and more time getting into their teaching.

I’ve been in China for near on 13 years now, (I am Canadian) have a couple of cars, a nice house, and a great family (my wife is Chinese). MOE in BeiJing invites me to come and speak a few times each year. I have plenty of income, not too much work.

Living is good (outside of BeiJing), life is good. So sick of whining in general, and shite-bags specifically.

In summary, go blow yourself. Your holystone rubbing of this British jerk makes you look as if you have a few dangly-jangly bones in your own closet. It took ‘you’ so long to get a ‘Z’ visa to “teach” here? Try a State-run school. Get a real job, grow up, learn to cast aspersions well and with accuracy.

PS – I make most of my income these days from consulting for Chinese companies dealing with USian exports, but I am still invited to lecture at various Chinese universities from time-to-time. And, just guessing, you teach at a semi-legitimate kindergarten or some such?

Your high-horse is dead. Kicking it should sicken you as much as it sickens me.

Now you have a “real” peodophile on your hands. But bizzarely, it looks like you had a blog article masturbatory orgasm as a result. Now I think THAT is kinda sick.

Robinson is wanted for questioning in the UK. He hasn’t been convicted of any crime. There may be any number of reasons why he ran away; it doesn’t automatically mean he is a child molester. It doesn’t look good, I admit, but there’s no need for this kind of language. Besides, we’ve heard Beijing Cream call out many other people – some pillars of expat society you just don’t like – as criminals, or liars, or full of bullshit, and even “peodophiles”. When. They. Are. Just. Normal. People.

But its so much fun, isn’t it, when you do that? Oh how you titter in your cheap Tsingtao happy hour beers at the outrage you’ve caused.

So what is it Beijing Cream and the non-entities behind this site? You call out expats and allow comments calling some of them “peodophiles” online under articles written about people you don’t like, but when a REAL one turns up you have an orgasm, and spunk it all over your blog pages.

WHO are the sickos?

To me, it seems Beijing Cream, Anthony Tao and Greg Donohue are rather too fond of calling people paedophiles for their own good. One is starting to think you love it, lets say, just a little too much for the sake of normality.