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Gaba teachers offended by magazine's criticism

TOKYO, Japan (GTA) -- No stranger to vituperative criticism, Gaba instructors are now reacting to the latest issue of ESL Monthly which attacked the language school's decision to provide an across the board raise of 100 to 200 yen per-lesson.

Gaba teachers have already been derided before, but now a major publication has ran a 10-page story, harshly criticizing the company for its recent pay increase, which it described as the 'pinnacle of pernicious profligacy,'

The author who penned this particularly pugnacious and polemistic piece pillorizing Gaba instructors, Terry Akita, went as far as to say that Gaba's unprecedented wage increase would be the equivalent of "going out at 2:00 a.m. and paying an extra 100-yen extra for gunsold bread" left on the convenience store rack.

Adding person insult, he further explained that, Kita-Senju Learning studio's Gerry Wilson, which he deemed the personification of unsold bread, was crying out for a "50% discount" before realizing the total cost of the discounted lesson would still come to around 4,000 to 5,000 yen.

However, while not being satisfied with one cheap shot at Gerry "2-Star" Wilson, ESL Reports referred to Wilson's Business Opportunities lesson as "a rudderless journey out to sea, drifting to a lifeless, dust covered landscape, where all traces of wit and perspicacity have long since become extinct...a jumbled, hodge-podge of stultifying boredom and indelible puerility. If this were some inimitable form of spectacular incompetence on the account of Gerry Wilson, we could at least acknowledge some respect him for some sort of originality in terms of ineptitude. However, Gerry Wilson, and this cannot be put in any gentler terms, is not original in the least."

Gaba released a statement defending Gerry Wilson as an 'exceptionally quality-focused-minded professional,' while adding that he also 'owned over 600 DVDs and has traveled to throughout SE Asia.'

The article further argues that the extra 100 yen would go down as an embarassing waste of funds. "We can surely imagine that an extra 100 yen here and there will no doubt be wasted on canned coffee, calorie mate, and pornographic materials, when it could have been better spent on maintaining the level of stylishness of Gaba's learning studios. For each day, there is naught a pause in the battle of attrition, where the winds of time whether away the thin coating of of superficiality."

The point brought sharp criticism from Ikeburo learning studio's Tyler Boyce.

"Superficial? Superficial? What is that supposed to mean exactly? They can't even say. The superficiality of English conversation? Or the superficialness of my professionalism, barely covering the insecurities brought about as a continuation of the superficial college education I had? Sure, by all means. They did have a University Press and even some things like cum laude where you got a medal. But maybe they just mean the superficial knick-knacks on the Gaba aisle or maybe the architecture books on the bookshelf."

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