yes but not exclusively.
@Romeo Chang
may i ask you if you are Chinese?
just checking so i could break down a seemingly high foreign teachers pay and what is left by the end of the month.
i get this a lot when some local staff finds out what FT are getting paid.
Here is a calculation we did in 2007.
One hour costs the parents at least 20RMB per hour in a public or poor peoples school. At that was already a very moderate estimate at that time, so it's more likely 40 RMB per hour, disregarding the subject.
Plus food uniforms management fees, enrollment fees, hongbao's etc...
multiply that by at least 40 students per class more realistically 50 students. and you will get at about 10,000RMB per class per day. Then you might wonder why those school have huge buildings and dozens of classrooms anyway multiply by whatever classes they have and then .....voila!!!
Compare that with your normal Private school and you will come to the surprising conclusion, they all make the same. So working for the rich is actually working for the poor.
Plus you won't get material and resources, spending hours in preparation even hand sketching flashcards because you won;t get a printer or the printer is broken and not been fixed for 8 month until the foreign teachers collect some fixing cash. And then labeled as rich wannabe's by the principal for actually doing something.
Nope thank you, I like to teach normal people and working for a normal boss, getting paid fairly, and work my a** off to show that I am worth the pay.
@Alien
....couldn't agree more.
Beer Lao is awesome taste wise. But I prone to get headaches from it especially the black dark one. Even after only two bottles [small ones].
Do you have similar experiences and I am not talking about hangovers... lol!
Still drink it though, it's totally worth it!!
I was talking about part time hours.
But as a matter of fact I get paid a much more than 250 RMB per hour if I would divide my full time hours into hourly pay.
Plus I have to say that my boss/company is very smart and exceptionally advanced [not because they pay a lot] but the way they want to put themselves on the market and establish a very good quality model in Kunming and it pays off.
Plus a good teacher is worth more than 2 or even 3 mediocre teachers and deliver [possibly] leadership skills, experience, training and expertise to all the other teachers.
Also good teacher know the whole scale of the teaching profession and don;t just drop their pencil at 4.30, complain, get stressed out and hate their jobs
The school I work for has average tuition fees compared to other facilities like that and they are aiming at the normal middle class.
But they also include kids with special needs and some of the poorer kids by outreach programs.
So no Alien you are not correct, it's the second school with programs like this i saw in Kunming. Try that with a public school the last time I checked the ADD kid in class was labeled "Crazy" and left out to rot in the public school system...yiiipee!
And if you really think that the "poor" man's schools put 60 plus students in a classroom to serve the poor people, aiming at quality and excellence, then you are plain wrong. They make more money than most private schools.
They put that many kids in the class to have more profit.
For example one of my tutor kids goes to the supposedly best middle school in kunming..blabla, they pay shit loads of money and parents rich or poor trying to get in there and their education is complete BS.
So Alien your idea is not exactly reflecting reality..
Those schools cash in big time and they pay all teachers, foreign or Chinese, peanuts. Why because they can, private schools have an image to protect,....if they care!
Actually working for a preschool before I was involved into some market research and we found out that in the long run private schools are much cheaper, by far!!!!
And yes Alien I am steering this profit ship straight into the next financial crisis.
That is not how the education business works in China.
@atwilden
Yeah I worked for poorer parents and schools for many years as well and it is the exact same thing, when I found out what a rip off it is and how the profits and pay is distributed I left. Because I was under the illusion they serve for the better of the community.
Plus their kids are equally spoiled and messed up and so are their parents.
agreed carre4 usually has sone sprcial offers import beer half liters for 9kuai. 4kuai more than the chinese choice.
and at least you get actual beer.
none of that formaldehyde sweet water pee.
most western beers produced in china are actual chinese beers with fireign labels. tuborg and heineken =harbin for example.
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Sorry this probably belongs into the forum section...But just to clarify and thanks to overrated reviews I went to CC with high expectations to get some delicacies, I wanted to surprise my wife with a delicacy and there was absolutely nothing that Parkson, Metro or Carrefour don't have.I don't like Chorizo so there has to be more than just that to make me give 5 stars.Plus I already gave them 3 stars, for the very positive things I experienced.There are no products that other shops don't offer, except if their products are home made but I didn't see any labels stating it's organic or home made.For the cold cuts I found as well as the cheeses are all (or most) available at other stores.I didn't know that they make sandwiches and I will give that a try especially knowing that Sandra is involved in the making which usually leads to a yummy tummy.But again as delicacy shop it's very unimpressive and as stated before I believe it will get better. So I am not bashing it but trying to help the owners to give some ideas not just applause because I like Sandra's food...which I do.So I recommend to give realistic reviews. 5 stars just because you like one item there will just disappoint potential CC patrons that are not going for Sandwiches or Chorizo.It's a shop with tons of potential and I will come back to try the Sandwich and see what else they will have in future. But giving more than 3 stars for what I saw wouldn't be fair.
I went there and all the fake Ikea (furniture) items were almost twice as much as the originals at Ikea. The fixing guys are good but as mentioned above at least need a week or two to drill 4 holes in the wall.
The little knick knacks are ok and reasonably priced. For real furniture, I wouldn't buy there. Better and cheaper options available. But good for cheap and nice decorations and accessories.
I practiced there for a few weeks but unforntunately I had to stop, due to relocation.
It's a good school but what I didn't like was the Martial Arts blend between traditional kungfu and modern wushu, similar to the Henan one.
But I still like it for the good exercise, staff and classmates.
I am not sure if there are actually some real kungfu monks, so if you are looking for the full martial package, you might get disappointed, as almost anywhere in China.
Be aware that practice is not in the temple but in a kungfu school one block away
That said, it is in my opinion the best choice in Kunming to practice the closest to real martial arts (besides taiji). And it's very reasonably priced.
A look at Yunnan's evolving anti-drug strategy
Posted byWhat you are talking about vicar, and alien are so called gateway drugs.
Most gateway drugs must have a strong physical addiction potential, or because they are extremely easy to get. And most important it depends on when you are starting with substances which could lead to addiction.
And then number one gateway drug[s] are alcohol and tobacco.
As most kids experiment with these two early on, then the way is paved.
Weed comes in [usually] at a later age, at which you should have already physically and psychologically learned, how to say no.
Otherwise, how is it that states with open cannabis laws, have a lower addiction rate for harder drugs?
In my opinion alcohol and nicotine are the worst of all drugs and gateway drugs.
If you are talking crime, then legalizing the ones that do less harm than the legal drugs, is a necessary step.
Tax alcohol 300%, tobacco 800% and state grown cannabis, peyote, mushrooms at Value Added Tax and 300% if it's blended in with tobacco. And you will see, less barfights, domestic violence, rape, murder, drug sales, vs. increases in consumption of cartoons and animations, boosting the snacks industry, music awareness, camping, et cetera. Lol
Alcohol is a nerve toxin. THC isn't.
In general people wanna get high, always get high.
Is there any person ever getting robbed for weed? The purse snatching story is more in the line of alcohol, meth or crack.
The best way is to stay away form any substances that alter your state of mind, ...if you can.
A look at Yunnan's evolving anti-drug strategy
Posted byWar on drugs has always failed and will always fail.
Humans are crazy about getting high, for whatever reasons.
It's just about choosing your drug.
Sport, coffee, tea, alcohol, chocolate, tobacco, sex, talking crap in forums and chat lines, there is nothing people can't get addicted to.
And people will always get high if they want to.
So decriminalizing, prevention, education is the way to go.
State controlled outlets for drugs, addicts get free and clean needles, and check ups for typical drug fiend diseases.
Holland has worked fine, and so are Canada, and most of the states in the US, as far as you can say over the short period of time.
The judicial system get's relieved over something it cannot stop anyway.
Taking care of the hard drug users and addicts, and education and prevention from the taxes on legal drugs, and you have a good chance to succeed.
China is playing USA in the 1980's, a few crop incentives won't help, while people are being thrown in jail over smoking a bit of pot, or taking XTC. But hopefully they will see the stupidity of it.
@vicar
It's incorrect weed or soft drugs don't lead to addiction or demand for harder drugs.
It's an individual problem, some people take heroin, once and never feel like taking drugs again. Some drink a few drinks and soon are hitting it hard.
There is no rule or solution for personal addiction.
Dali Bar begins free community e-waste recycling program
Posted byGreat! Thanks for putting it up.
Do they also accept scooter and e-bike parts?
I mean not through Salvador, perhaps. I guess they wouldn't like their café to be an 'old scooter storage'.
But since every idiot is hailing Tesla's and e-mobility, and forgetting that they riding toxic waste and mountains of carbon fumes around, it would be worth knowing how to at least get rid of the old batteries and e-parts,....-properly!
Lijiang vendors strike, protesting old town entry fee
Posted byI don't have much sympathy for the shop owners. I agree with Haali, Mike and Tiger.
They sell cheap taobao, crap for up to 500% its value, most stuff has nothing to do with Lijiang and 5 drum shops on 200meters of road is a bit overkill.
None of the stuff ever sold in China, is by customer demand. Some Dongbei bloke, thinks Lijiang needs fake African drums, and shiny toy drones, so they open 60 shops in the old town, because they have money. And think the more annoying, loud and screamy advertisement you have the more people buy.
All others investors, due to lack of creativity, will open shops with the exact same product, in 30 shops of their own, in Chinese, then it's called cultural preservation. No shop owner in Lijiang is local. The locals all rent out, cause they can make tons of money. They don't give a crap. If you own property in the old town, you are rich.
Lijiang and Dali = greed, from all sides.
The tourists buy the crap that is offered, cos they have no idea, what is local culture....hence China not having any real culture left, after the Revolution....
So welcome to Yunnan Disneyland.
For all I care, charge 500RMB each time you enter the old town, 1000RMB if you must.
Let the shops go out of business, I rather see a run down but original old town, than that freak show.
I don't go there anyway, I rather go to small village guesthouses, in the area, and spend my money on hiking, good local food and relaxation, rather then squeezing through million of tourists, on roads that are barely big enough to let squirrels pass.
Lijiang and Dali were once really beautiful spots. Now they are just money laundering and cash mills. The real China is never found in touristy old town.
Wrongful murder conviction spawns US$1.45 million lawsuit
Posted by@scally
The article is great and thanks for putting it back into the view of the public. Yeah that girl and her lawyer, really have balls, to go against the people convicting her.
But these people don't like to be messed with. They will probably put her against bars again.
But I hope they also try to find the murderer, otherwise there is still a babykiller on the loose. See Steven Avery.