I have given up hours of my free time to assist my students when needed
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I completely agree they don't want qualified teachers; my time at EFTZ and last 6 months at EFDL was clash after clash with the management about the practices in place.
I worked there because I (perhaps naively) hoped to effect change from within and in some small ways I did just that. To my shame, I couldn't last more than two years doing it as it was fast breaking my heart and spirit. Not helped in part by having to work alongside teachers who felt turning up to class incredibly hungover or in some cases still drunk was acceptable. The good DoS I worked for managed to get rid of most of them, but they made a great comeback after he was fired. After that I worked myself in to the ground getting those catch up classes up and running and then returned to Europe before it became too much.
I went to China because I love teaching and I wanted to get some good teaching in to some bad places, and I did. I teach because it is my passion and something I love doing. If you don't have that passion or dedication to your students, my opinion is you have no business teaching anywhere.
I have given up hours of my free time to assist my students when needed, running exam skills classes or practice sessions, giving extra help where needed because as an educator it is my duty to give my best to my students.
It's why I look down so much on 'teachers', qualified or not, that don't share that dedication. That think doing the minimum possible is fine, because their reason for teaching is not the advancement of their students but because they want an easy life and a visa to stay in China. Who feel it's perfectly ok to get drunk the night before teaching so that you're either teaching hungover or still drunk and smelling like the night before. To me, those people have no right to call themselves teachers, whether you work in a public school or a private one, if your main reason for teaching anything other than a passion for education, then you shouldn't be teaching.