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Originally Posted by KnowItAll Unfortunately, it is sort of true. Most of these "english schools" are really not professional institutions and are essentially pimping the white face to the guilible lower class who have been trained to belive that asians don't speak good english.
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It is true. Not only "these ' english schools'", but government subsidized schools too. My wife has two degrees in Education and taught in Boston Public School for over 10 years in English and ESL. She applied for NET positions and got rejected because she later learned most school principles would not like to hire a yellow face. To them, they have no ideas what is corrrect accent English or not, they just want to market a white face to their parents. In short, you are hired as a marketing tool.
One of her friend has PhD in Harvard with major in ESL and came to HK. She got a job finally with an international school. And guess what? She was asked to teach Putonghua, because it so happens she speaks beautiful Putonghua.
Hey, look. In HK, it is not not what you got inside that counts. It is very superficial. Just look at their business cards, with strings of titles after their name; you know this culture has lost its skill to judge the quality.
If I were you, I would try NY in USA. They are desperate for teachers.
