Quote Originally Posted by scratchndent View Post
But then there are the idiots that I deal with every tuesday for free beer-Teachers mostly, yelling screaming acting like damn fools in a public place. If I offend any teachers here I apologize, it is just most of the problematic drunken scurge that we have to escort out on tuesdays, happen to be english teachers, how did they get here?
Being an English teacher myself I must be offended by the post and I would’ve been, were it not true.
I have been working in the same company for 4 years + and I have seen many people come and go. Scratchndent, you wonder how come that scum is English teachers? Let me tell you:

Teaching English is the easiest job to find in China with the number of English learners in the country being bigger that the total population of the US. So, apparently, most of the foreigners who work here in PRC will naturally be English teachers.
Until very short time ago they haven’t been requiring any professional certification for that job, so anyone, who could speak English a bit could claim themselves as one. It is changing now and I’m happy about it. I did my degree in linguistics, majored in pedagogics, published research papers, got TESOL, TMM and DynEd certificates and I believe I must have more employment chances over some taxi driver who has none of the above mentioned. No offense intended, my Dad has been a taxi driver.
That said, people who couldn’t find there “place in life” or had serious problems of sorts have been settling in China as “English teachers” since that opening policy started. Not all of them know of professional conduct. Not all of them can spell it.
Teaching does involve a certain degree of stress. That’s not some managerial’s position stress of decision making, no, that’s the stress induced by personally dealing with lots of people on a daily basis. Way too personally at times for some. Hence excessive drinking. Well, that’s an explanation, but it doesn’t give them (us) the right and excuse to behave like what you described.

If you want to have a videotape of some sort - install a surveillance system. Cheap, legal, saves you lots of trouble, and you can always tell the police who that dude with the knife was :)