The ESL scene is completely fucked up here. They hire both native and non-native speakers, with degree and/or teaching qualifications, or none whatsoever - in fact, many schools are quite happy to hire someone who simply fits the description of being white and able to string two sentences together as that means they can get away with paying lower wages... So you basically have a bunch of completely unqualified backpackers with zero skills and no teaching experience posing as English teachers under a long-term contract in order to finance their booze-and-drugs-fueled trips and then fuck off after a few months, leaving the kids at school without a teacher in the middle of the school year, and then is replaced with another equally unqualified backpacker who has no intentions to commit to teaching either and just treats the job as "easy money" before fucking off to their two week yoga and meditation retreat or whatever, and still think they are god's gift to the locals. /rant over.