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[milkweedma]

[Lobster]

The restaurant owners don't care if the food is good. The car maker doesn't care if the cars start. The doctors don't care whether the patients improve. Farmers don't care whether their crops are edible. Writers don't care if people read their writing. Team owners don't care if their team wins. School owners don't care if their students learn. They're all just in it for the quick buck. If that's the "brutal truth", why even bother? There are enough bridges in China high enough to put an end to any miserable, pessimistic existence.

RED

[janeal]

I'm truly sympathetic to your post but, from your description, the stress seems to originate in you, not the school administartion. Perhaps you should consider a less stressful job, say, as a librarian or school janitor.

[johntpartee]

Librarian would be too stressful.

[Non Sequitur]

I've looked back at the OP and most of the contributions and I think there are some valuable lessons here.
I don't think it was pinata or cinco per se but the rapidity of their introduction.
To go from zero base which is most Chinese students level of understanding of the West to hands on /make your own pinata is too big a leap.
Most students are unaware that other countries have their own currencies or that in the Sthn Hemisphere the seasons are reversed.
I've mentioned elsewhere the blank looks on time zones from my students - even ones who are destined for further study overseas.
So maybe a better approach would be to take your students on an imaginary trip to the US or wherever. Talk about getting through immigration, then changing money etc.
Then highlight local customs by explaining things like arriving on March 17 and seeing a lot of people wearing green.
Don't expect local Chinese teachers to be supportive.
A Chinese told me that one of the reasons for animosity is that a Chinese teacher would never contribute materials to augment a lesson and by doing so FTs make them look cheap.

[zulethe]

OP with all sincerity, you should get into the soap opera business. I don't think I've ever read so much drama in my life.

Seriously, and no offense but your post wreaks of mental illness.

You should seek some type of counseling. You may have histrionic personality disorder.

I actually read most of the post, of which I'm sure most others didn't. It's just too long and too full of self-induced drama to draw any type of sympathy or interest.

Another piece of advice, when playing the victim, you may want to down-play your violent outbursts in the future. The same can be said if this was a trolling attempt.

[johntpartee]

[Gringo Greg]

[scholar]

With all those temper tantrums, sounds like she was teaching them Chinese culture, which they should already know well enough.

[Gringo Greg]

[dogUNLEASHED]

I think the OP could do quite well at a hagwon in South Korea for the same reasons she failed in China. At the Korean hagwon where I worked, I would've preferred to have taught English in a conventional classroom setting. However, we were constantly playing traditional Korean games such as yut, jegichagi, tuho, etc. Aside from that, it was non-stop arts, crafts, songs, plays, and field trips. I went along and did what they wanted me to with a smile since they were the ones paying my salary.

[Mister Al]

The OP sems to fit the expression 'off ones trolley'

[johntpartee]

[Dedicated]

The original post was on June 11th. The OP has not been back since.
I suspect this is a troll, winding everybody up and/or having a laugh.

[scholar]

The OP is not a troll. As I said, she is well-known on certain other online venues and uses her real name. She does not do wind-ups.