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In Reply to: RE: In a Hong Kong Apartment no less posted by Johno on March 12, 2021 at 19:35:34:
The International schools pay pretty well. I am in the Public School System which pays even better than the International schools. BUT we get less vacation time and the experience isn't as transferrable as teachers in International Schools.
I also taught in China in 2008/9 school year at a Canadian-run school (within a larger Chinese school so we shared resources like the PE equipment). The principal was Canadian and all teachers needed a Canadian teaching certificate. I had a headphone-based system then.
I always advise people to put down the newspapers and turn off the TV news and go see places for themselves - it's rarely what you expect and the reality is often quite different than what the talking heads babble about.
It's funny, but I defend China to Westerners and defend America to Asians who think America is a violent Mad Max apocalypse of gun-crazy killers. So you have to trot out the statistics telling them that no you are very unlikely to be shot. Stereotypes go both ways.
That said - my job is not guaranteed as it might be in a Canadian Union. I am on two-year contracts and if the Chinese government decides it no longer wants "westerners" influencing their kids in western culture - we'll be booted.
If so - I'll probably make the move to an International School and try for Singapore or Dubai. 12 years ago they were paying $60,000 US a year tax-free and provided free flights, utilities, a car, and an apartment. For a teacher that is a pretty great deal - but it's in Dubai so people get a little fearful. I bet they have crazy Stereo Equimpement there though. The best of the best I am sure.
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