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wonderingjoesmith · Joined: 19 Aug 2012 Posts: 910 Location: Guangzhou

Have your schools had any such foreign teachers? If so, how are your schools dealing with it? My school's administration is pretty uptight and students somewhat amused.

roadwalker · Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 1750 Location: Ch

We've got all the teachers they expected, as far as I can tell. No shows seems pretty common- stuff happens. I haven't been in a school in China where anyone's pulled a runner.

johntpartee · Joined: 02 Mar 2010 Posts: 3258

I THINK we've got a no-show here, but our new term doesn't begin until the 10th.

rogerwilco · Joined: 10 Jun 2010 Posts: 1549

Only two of us FT's at my college, and we are both here.

I worked at one college in Jiangsu a few years ago that had
3 FT's do midnight runs in one term.

rioux · Joined: 26 Apr 2012 Posts: 880

19 of us and all but one (health reasons) are still here.

GeminiTiger · Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 4:49 am Post subject:

I've seen runners and no-shows and really dam late. Last term I worked at a school that was supposed to have 2 foreign English teachers, but the Filipino teacher was delayed the whole first term. I ended up doing double duty and made a nice chunk of coin.

I don't know why a school with 15+ teachers can't offer the existing teachers a chance to pick up some extra money with reasonable overtime pay. The school wins and the teacher wins, but I hardly see that happen.

wonderingjoesmith · Joined: 19 Aug 2012 Posts: 910 Location: Guangzhou

One teacher for too many classes may cause a scheduling conflict, if students have more subjects with foreign and local teachers. In my case, since one FT took a midnight run, I've got a workload of one and a half teacher now. The school wanted to dump all the classes on me, but they couldn't rearrange the schedule to put a full double duty.