Keep toxic foreign teachers away from kids

ON WEDNESDAY, the local police in Xuzhou city, East China's Jiangsu province, said that they had caught 19 suspected drug-takers, seven of them foreign teachers employed by EF Education and nine of them students. ThePaper.cn comments:

The case is rather shocking. According to reports, EF Education has four branches in the city, employing about 60 foreign English teachers, which means that more than 10 percent of its teachers are being detained by the police. EF Education has said that it will render support to the police and dismiss the seven foreign teachers.

But EF needs to not only dismiss the foreign teaching staff involved, but also conduct thorough checks when hiring its foreign teachers. Education as a profession needs to have a high threshold so that children are protected.