Topic: news Foreign Teacher Training Institutions: The Only Qualification Necessary is a Foreign Face

- 'Unqualified' is meaningless if the teacher is actually doing their job properly. I was also 'unqualified' to be writing for a television station. I didn't even have a degree or ANY previous training. So what? The employer saw I was going to do well and I did. - The parent asks 'why are teachers being replaced so quickly' and this is because the schools are rotating foreign teachers. It's not because of some problem with foreign teachers themselves (or them being 'qualified' or not). - I would like everyone to stop and take a mental memory review of all their previous workplaces both in China and at home. Think about it. Would you say 25% or 30% of Foreign English Teachers did a poor job? Okay how many of the 'qualified' (many overqualified) did a poor job at the training center? About 25% of them right? Now think of that company you worked for back home. About 25% of your coworkers were pretty much useless or 'unqualified' and many just got the job knowing the right people or by happenstance. Okay now think of local Chinese. Hmm? About how many school administrators did you meet who were unqualified (or qualified) and just useless? At least 25% of them right? What about Journalists at 21st Century? Is there anyone here who doubts that about 25% of their employees are 1. useless 2. have the job by family name/relationship ONLY 3. Have no more business being journalists than you or anyone off the street does? I bet anyone that Foreign Teachers in training centers across China actually have BETTER OVERALL NUMBERS of good/bad employees than average in China OR even back home.