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✎ EN We Teach Illegally For You, China

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    WE TEACH "ILLEGALLY" FOR YOU, CHINA

    We've all heard stories about Chinese crackdowns on "illegal" foreign teachers. Every-time some foreign teacher screws up or an officials mistress smiles at a black guy there's a new wave of heavily publicized raids, arrests, deportations, and new regulations. It's just not right. And it's definitely not right that schools, recruiters and the regulations escape reform as well. When the parents of Happy Giraffe kindergarten decide they want their little Emperor to learn English it sets off a chain reaction with us as the lowest rungs on the totem pole. China, we teach illegally because Chinese Dads & Moms want us to.

    Imagine if China started cracking down on the parents who enabled the entire system? The parents who are just trying to get their little Emporers and Princesses a few extra points on the brutal Gaokao? Imagine arrests, raids, deportations and fines on MOM & DAD who insisted that their kid have a foreign teacher, but they are only willing to pay him 4000元/month? It's unthinkable, right? But it's these very parents who created the demand for "illegal" teachers! And where there's money to be made, Chinese step in.

    Everyday recruiters post job ads looking for illegal teachers. Everyday schools knowingly break the law and hire foreigners "illegally". In fact, they like it when we work illegally. They can f*ck us over without a worry in the world. When are the Chinese police going to close schools? When are the C‌hinese police going to pretend to be "illegal" teachers and lure in recruiters? When is China going to offer reward money for turning in Chinese? Why are all the enforcement measures aimed only at expats? Why do we get deported, fined, arrested and banned from China while locals get a slap on the wrist when THEY HIRED US?


    (Wouldn't it be nice if teachers could get this?)
    Don't get us wrong - we're mostly happy with the status quo. China mostly ignores us. There's still tens of thousands of us teaching illegally. Let's face it, (almost) no native speakers from America, with 2 years experience, a teaching degree, uni diploma, HIV negative, etc are going to take that 4000元/month job in rural Anhui province!! Everyone knows it, including the officials and cops who decides that a "new crackdown" will sound good in the newspapers! But they do it anyway..

    So why does China pick on us foreigners? We're just dancing monkeys for this generation of little Emperors and Princesses. China, stop using us for cheap political points. China, stop hurting your own kids! Let us teach legally! Reform the Visa system. Reform the education system. Make it REALISTIC, not IDEALISTIC. Get rid of this culture of fear, paranoia, raids and let Chinese parents hire the foreign dancing monkey of their choice!


    Let's make "Expat Rights" a thing, together!
     
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    So, in a few words, what does all of that mean? What is the problem that you criticise in China for foreign teaching? There are a lot of foreign schools and as far as we know there is no such issues...
     
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    There are a lot of foreign schools and foreign teachers but I'd estimate that (a majority?) a great number of them are illegal.

    China needs 'evidence based' visa policy and 'evidence based' restrictions on teaching. None of this "2 years experience, uni degree, native speakers only, most schools can't get permission" shit.

    They crack down more and more while demand gets higher and higher...
     
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    Do you claim that, as the demand for foreign/international education increases, those international schools need to employ people without providing the necessary visa? And then that there is a risk that the school might have to close if the Chinese authority control? :eek:
     
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    Re: We Teach "Illegally" For You, China

    Heh. International schools aren't the ones doing this. It's the smaller schools, who perhaps can't even get permission to sponsor teachers in the first place but face overwhelming demand from parents to hire a laowai.
     
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