My expectation is that the first thing a teacher will want to teach me is the handicap placement followed by X number of proverbs, and then if I don't progress chide me for not studying enough, following by insisting at beating me with a nine stone handicap traditional placement, insisting on traditional placement, to prove his superior strategy. If I could find a teacher that was really into what I want to do that would be one thing. However, I think only teachers that have gone to some sort of formal school and taken exams are qualified to know more than one or two strategies, and in the US you have just really strong handicap go players.