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On 7/4/2018 at 4:17 AM, cyberfarang said:

Sorry mate, but you couldn`t afford her and I doubt she would care whether you`re married or not providing the price was right.

 

Can`t guys understand that these types of women are all about money, and they`ll do anything illicitly with anyone or in anyways if doesn`t involve doing a hard day`s work. Who would want to be in a relationship with a woman who shares herself with everybody for a price and probably every guy on the planet with one click can see your wife or girlfriend naked having sex with other guys or girls. That`s definitely not my idea of a dream date.

 

 

 

There is an Old Joke that goes something like this:

"Why do Men date Women they don't intend to marry?"

ANSWER:

"For the same reason Dogs chase cars they don't intend to drive."

10 hours ago, Prairieboy said:

Teachers have to realize that they don't need a fancy car or 2 or 3 motorcycles to save face.  They finally realized the fact that loans have to be repaid and now they want the government to bail them out.  They need to live within their means.  IMO it is all about face!

The banks are also at fault for loaning money to people who have no assets to back-up the loan.  In my country banks will not loan you money if the combined amount of monthly debt repayment exceeds 40% of your net income.

So you personally know Teachers who own fancy cars and have 2 or 3 motorbikes? Strange to me then as I never met any of them in all my time here. Not even Expat Teachers who earn double the money. The Teachers I know are all poor. 

You seem to have trouble with "Comprehension", or in other words understanding what you read. The Bank the Teachers are talking about isn't your every day Bangkok Branch off the street. It is a special Teachers Bank set up for the benefit of Teachers and you need to be a Teacher to join this bank. Just like there is a Farmers Bank in Thailand set up for Farmers.

This Teachers Bank was set up to be a benefit for the Teachers. By providing Low Interest Loans on major pruchases, like a house, and in so doing relaxing some of the rules that go along with stricter mortgages. Like having to have assest to borrow the money. Or having a Co-Signer. So because it is supposed to be a benefit to the Teachers they don't need to qualify as much as they do for a normal bank. 

Special Banks are also set up for Student Loans. How many assest do you think an 18 year old high school student has just begining university? Yet they still need to borrow a lot of money to complete there education and with zero assests they do. 

If Banks follower your rules on neding assests, nobody would get and education in this country, and no Teachers to teach them when it is free in High School.     

4 hours ago, billd766 said:

 

Would you like to go back and re red the post where I said my niece was earning 12,000 in her first job and 13,000 in her second or would that be too much trouble for you?

 

Did anyone ask where she got the startup money? She does have a boyfriend and a family who help out.

 

If you are going to pick holes in my story please get it right in the first place.

 

TumblinDice is the one who is talking about 9,000 baht for his co-worker and not me.

 

All of the teachers at the schools that my son has gone to since P1 have earned more than 9,000 baht per month as a teacher and since you are talking fishy stories I cannot believe that any teacher is only earning 9,000 baht per month after 14 years of schooling and 4 years at university gaining a degree.

 

Who would be left to teach the children if some left? How about the any thousands of teachers who are established and confirmed civil servants already.

Okay! Fare enough! Now armed with this additional information let me see if I got your story about your Niece correct now. 

Your Niece, who is obviously a younger woman, first completes University, as you mentioned that she had a Student Loan.On her first job she earns about 12,000 Baht a month, which you told us she was not happy about. So she then moved on to her second job where she earned 13,000 Baht a month but still not happy with those wages either. So now here is where your story gets kinda thick. 

So this Niece of yours, with very little working experience and zero business experience, decides to start her own business one day, with the financial help of her family and boyfriend. Her being a Young Woman with no business experience at all, and no knowledge of even how to start her own business and open a shop, any normal person would think she was doomed to failure. 

But what you tell us next is that she becomes an instant success, and is making a lot more money this way and happier, then she was working and earning only 13,000 Baht a month. Then you tell us all that if she can do this than anyone can do this. 

I don't think so My Firend! If what you say about your Niece is true than she is most certainy the exception to the rule, and not the normal rule. What she accomplished is amazing and not something everyone can do. Like another Poster already told you, that if everyone could do this they all would. Including Me, or my wife at least, who does have a 4 Year University Degree in Business Administration. 

A Teacher earning 9,000 Baht a month is quite low, and lower than I would have thought as well. Especially for any city. But being the first Teacher Job in perhaps in some Rural Area, where a small shack to live in may be thrown is as part of the wages, is possible. But I also doubt that many make over 15,000 Baht a month as well. 

But consider that wage for a moment and even getting 15,000 Baht a month. A good rule of thumb in buying a house is that the total value should not exceed 3 years of wages. So for a Teacher that would be 540,000 Baht. Pretty difficult to find a modest home for 540,000 baht in the city. 

Now if you take the Total Debt Service Ration (TDS) of 40%, which incudes all Bills and Mortgage then on 15,000 Baht a month that leaves a desposable income of 6,000 Baht a month or 72,000 Baht a year. At a Mortgage Rate of 6% that means that the most expensive house you can buy would be 1,200,000 Baht which you could buy a modest house with that. 

But if you did buy a 1.2 M Baht house that means you cannot have any other debts, including a Student Loan, and that you would never pay off the Principle, meaning you would pay this forever. 

Thailand, like any country, needs good Teachers. They do a very important job and service to the country. Perhaps giving them higher wages is difficult, but certainly helping them out to be able to buy there own house with a low interest loan is not out of the ball park and within there easy reach. 

By-the-way! You did say that if the Teachers did not not like there wages they should quit and find another job. You did not say only a few of them but meant any or all of them. That came from your Post to which maybe you need to re-read over.      

4 hours ago, billd766 said:

 

I feel personally insulted by a person like you when you describe my niece as a bar girl on Pattaya as she is living in Bangkok but I cannot expect anything intelligent from you. And FYI she IS paying off her student loan, she shares the car with her boyfriend, lives with her Dad in the family house and has no children as she practices safe sex which presumably your parents didn't looking at you as a result.

 

So why is it that so many poor families can pack up and leave to find work elsewhere but your friend cannot? Out here in rural Thailand if you don't have a family business there is little choice left for work.

 

I cannot understand why teachers who are supposed to be smart and intelligent don't seem to understand the principle of borrowed money needs to be repaid. My 14 year old son does because I keep explaining it to him.

 

BTW personal insults are not permitted on TVF as you should know if you had bothered to read the rules.

 

If you don't give a rats ass about me or my posts then why don't you ignore them and put me on your ignore list which is where I have put you.

I can see why your story about your Niece sounds so fishy and has so many holes in this story. 

You first tell us that your Niece starts out at a low paying job (I beleive you said about 8,000 Baht a month) but decides to give that up for a higher paying job of only 9,000 Baht a month.  But still not very satisfied with these wages ( and this is the part of your story I like the best) she out of the Blue, with no experience or start-up money, and no bank would be cazy enough to lend her the money, and with a Student Loan to still pay off, she starts up her own successful business overnight and now makes great money and is very happy. 

I wonder how many readers here wish right now they or there wife could start up there own successful business with no money down to lose or borrowed money, and have a successful business overnight making big money? I also wonder how many people believe your story also??? 

But just one more silly question before I go. If all these low paid Teachers were to take your advice and quit there low paying job to set up there own food stand, who would be left to teach our children? Or maybe you think that having schools for kids to learn to read and write, and do math, is as foolish as having Teachers?  

6 hours ago, Ban Phe Dezza said:

Hi Folks 

On my Next and possible last trip to Aussie I will be 80.

I also have a bad heart and find it impossible to walk very far.

 

I am seriously looking at booking or asking for a wheelchair from the check-in area.

Is this feasible especially when presenting passport to the I/O?

 

any advice on costs or how to use the service?

I am also thinking about which Airline to use IE reasonably price, comfort ETC.

I feel that Singapore airlines or Thai  will be my Best options   

Hi,

I just used the Wheel Chair Service myself my first time 2 days ago. I am getting up in age with a bad hip, but mostly from a chest infection I have trouble breathing right now, and thus can't walk too far.

All my wife did was tell them when getting our Boarding Passes. Soon they had this young guy with a Wheel Chair for me to get in. When it was time to leave he came and got me and took me through Baggage Check and onward to my Gate. I got there in plenty of time. 

When it was time to Board they came and got me and I was the first to Board. It was a Domestic Flight and once we landed I had a Wheel Chair waiting for me there. They took me through Baggage Claim and out of the airport to wait for my ride. 

I must say I was very impressed with this service and also very greatful. My Gate was far off and I honestly don't know how I would have made it that far without this help. There was no additional cost as this service was free.  

I deal with the Bangkok Bank and my Deposit is also in a different location than the Immigration Office. Just go to the nearest Bank Branch with your Bank Book and they will type out any letter you need. I do that every year.  

5 hours ago, kannot said:

but it  all  boils down to the person asking to  borrow, a  modicum of  self control and most of this would never  happen. They dont need  99% of the crap they buy.

My wife , one  of nine, never  had a problem on a  small salary, she always saved money for a rainy day.........most people dont, and therein lies the problem. They bring it totally on themselves then whine its "not their  fault"

I have no sympathy whatsoever for them. You simply dont buy what you cant afford.

How can you say that they don't need 99% of the crap they buy? Where did you get this information and figure from? From some relative of yours who is not even a Teacher? I tend to differ as when one borrows 1.2 M Baht it would be for a major purchase, like a modest home.

I am sure like you say there are some who borrow money foolishly and aquire gambling debts. But far from the majority of them. They are every day people wanting some simple luxuries in there life, like owning there own home. Understand that none of these Teachers are asking for a free hand out. All they are asking for is a reducted Interest Rate, so they can afford to buy a modest home. 

So why not? It is not costing the government or the tax payers any extra money to do this. Governments are constantly lending out money at a highly reduced Interst Rates. They are the ones who lend the money to the Banks, who in turn add on a few percentage points, and then lend this money to you. So get rid of the Middle Man in this lending policy and lend it directly to a Teachers Fund, and the problem is solved at no extra cost.  

You wife being able to save some money from a low paying job is not a good comparison. Did she have a huge Student Loan to pay off after 4 years of University, like most of these teachers do? Was she able to buy a 1.2 M Baht house with her savings? I hardly doubt that. In fact I hardly doubt you know any people who paid cash for there first home and didn't need to borrow money from a bank to do that. Including yourself! 

It is obvious that you are a Non-Resident of Canada for Income Tax purposes so nothing to worry about having money deposited into your Canadian Bank Account. You are not breaking any laws or expected to pay Income Tax on that earned money. 

You are only subjected to Income Taxes on money earned in Canada. So on a Savings Account and if your money earns interest, than you would be technically subjected to paying taxes only on this interest. But with a high threshold before paying any taxes, you are likely to not have to pay any. Capital Gains on Stocks is tax free, and taxes on Dividends is only 15% and deduced from the source, so you never have to file. 

21 minutes ago, Sir Dude said:

Nothing to do with our countries of origin...we are talking about reality here. It's nothing more that economics 101 and few seem to be able to understand it now. If you don't have the money for it, then tough titties...simple, no-one owes you a living or existence. Who OKed the fact that you can go 'La La Land' and not pay for it? You are sadly deluded man, if you think there should be some fantasy land for certain sections of society and not everyone, due to them thinking they are socially superior then that is fubar. If you have an issue with people getting 300 baht an hour then you need to address these greedy Thai corporations and the local fascist governemnt that refuse to free the "slaves" (as you put it), think you are directing your ire at the wrong entity.

I am not trying to change the World just because I believe these Teachers have a good point. But I do think you need to read up some more on what a Benefit Package is, and what it is for.

Is it fare that if you work at Big C you get a discount from the store on clothing? Is it fare that if you work for Thai Airways you get a discount on your flight tickets? Is it fare that if you are a Loans Officer in a Big Bank you get a discount on your Loan Interest?

Yes! It is all fare as all these are what a Benefit Packages are all about. To attract and keep good employees. Teachers have a very valuble job in any society. So they are special. And not all loans are the same either. Somebody who wants to buy a shinny new car just to impress friends, and who cannot afford it, is not the same as some student borrowing money to go to University. That loan should be discounted also as far as I am concerned.  

17 minutes ago, Sir Dude said:

Absolutely right. Why should the teachers or anyone else get special treatment and not everyone? Why don't I and my Thai wife get interest relief too, as she is a normal citizen who isn''t one of these entitled sections of society that believe they should get special treatment. If anything, my wife and I should be cut some slack interest wise as we fall into the section of 'performing loans'...not these entitled sections of society that can't service their loans but believe they should get special treatment due to delusions of grandeur....what utter BS. 

Why stop at Teachers? Almost any Civil Servant I know of, from any country, is given special benefits.

You would be surprised at what some of the Benefits are for Government Employees in my country. It would make your hair turn Grey. But by the way you talk I gather you didn't know this before. In Poland not that long ago, Techers and Nurses were given free accomodations to live in, as part of there benefits.

So a Low Interest Loan is not asking for too much. Considering that all 4 of the Big Banks in Thailand made record profits this year.  

11 minutes ago, Sir Dude said:

Well, I guess swamping yourself in debt that enslaves you is the answer then...guess you are right.

So what do you call working hard 12 hours a day for 300 Baht? A person forced to do that to me is closer to being a Slave with no way out, then borrowing money to try an improve his education.

But then in our country, we don'y have Teachers swamped in debt for borrowing $35,000 to buy a house. Do We?

2 minutes ago, tryasimight said:

I do. 

If teachers can get a lower rate the EVERBODY  should get a lower interest rate. If not then the people who can manage their money are effectively subsidising those who cannot. 

Not true My Friend. These Bank Loans were set up as part of a Benefit Package to Teachers. So it ony applies to Teachers. What you are saying is that if somebody gets Free Dental at work as part of his Benefit Package, then we all should get this. Why?

The Document you are talking about is called the "Usufruct". This gives you full use of the property for as long as you live but not ownership. You cannot Will or pass on this right to anyone else. 

This Document can be easily and quite cheaply set up by a Lawyer. Your GF will need to bring to him the Land Title Cetificate she gets when she buys this house. You both sign this Usufruct Docment at the Lawyers Office then take it to the Land Title Office to get it Registered. That takes about 3 weeks to do and then you get this New Land Title with this Usufruct attached to the land.

I don't know what type of an agreement you and your GF are trying to set up. If your GF plans to get a mortgage on this property it will be very dificult to do if there is a Usufruct on it. You may not even be able to Register a Usufruct if there already is a mortgage on it. 

But I think the big question is that if things did go South, do you still want to live in that house afterwards. Buying a house and sharing it with someone requires a lot of long term planning, through good times and bad. Not sure why she would want to give you Usufruct rights, if she is the one buyig the property.   

26 minutes ago, giddyup said:

If he can afford to pay for round trip tickets for himself and his future wife, he can afford to make child support payments. He said he met his Thai wife in Melbourne, so is she an Australian resident or was she there on a holiday? If the latter he has a long and expensive process to go through before he can get her back to Australia. If his trip to Thailand is only to meet her folks, surely this can be delayed until he meets his obligations, ie pay the $45,000.

Do you have $45,000 you can pull out of your wallet right now to pay this money owed to CSA? I do, but not many can, and I am sure if he could do this he would. But comparing a flight ticket from Australia to Thailand to $45,000 in money owed, is back to comparing Oranges to Apples again.

If I recall correctly, the OP said he is makng CS Payments now, and I suppose some arrangment for back payments. His Thai Fiancee is in Australia on a Student Visa. I don't know his true motives. Maybe it is just to meet her Parents. Maybe he is so overwhelmed by these Child Support Payments he sees no life for himself anymore. 

Child Support Payments are based on your income at the time of this agreement. Maybe you had a good job then or  successful business, Then the business goes sour, or you lose your good job and start to fall back on your payments.

Do you think it is easy to get this changed, because if you do you would be wrong. You first need to hire a Lawyer to go to court and have a good reason to get it changed. Even then, and if you win, it may only be temporary and until you find your next good job, if you ever do again. 

Greedy Women with the law and justice systems always on there side, can sweeze the life out of any good man. He gave this woman a $24,000 Car which she agreed to be part of the payments, and then lied about it later saying t was a gift. Which Divorcing Man gives his X-Wife a gift like that when she has done everything to get more money out of him? Who would beleive this except CSA? 

If he has fallen into a hole where he sees no way out, and coming to Thailand finally gives him some peace, then so be it. Man was not put on Earth to be Slaves to Women and Children, and to work all his life away to give everything away to them. How do I know that? Man was here first!      

4 hours ago, giddyup said:

Fell behind to the tune of $45,000! How are they going to collect any money if the OP is living in Thailand? I know a guy who has been living here (Thailand) for years purely to escape paying one penny in child support. Hardly fair on his kids is it?

To show you how fair the CSA are, I had one dealing with an organization like CSA in Canada , a long time ago. I started a new job and after my first month I was called to the office to speak to a Manager. He told me the reason for our visit was that they had been contacted by CSA to Garnish my wages, to the tune of $3,000. Which back then was a lot of money. 

I was shocked by this news! I didn't even know I owed them any money as nobody told me first. My wife and I had Separated a couple of years earlier for about 6 months, but were now back together again. But during that Separation I could not recall missing even one payment, let alone owing $3,000.  But since this Manager saw how confused I was, he gave me the afternoon off to sort this out. 

I still remember my first meeting in the CSA Office. A dingy small grey room with a woman surely from the Gestapo sitting behind at a desk what looked like Bullet Proof Glass and a huge Security Guard standing right next to her. I thought then how strange that was as Bank Tellers had less protection than she did.

There was no exchange or nice words or greetings as she got to the point and by her demanding rudely what do I want? I wanted to find out why the Garnish Order, but even that took a long time to get. As she said I know damned well why, and to stop waisting her time, and tried to leave it at that. 

But finally after great discomfort to herself she showed my the legal papers why. These said that for the months of July, August, and September I did not make any Child Support Payments and this claim came through the Welfare Offfice. Now I was really confused, but since I only had that afternoon to clear this up, and save perhaps huge embarrassment to myself, and perhaps my job, I wrote a Check for $3,000 to them on the promise they will wait until it is cashed before they will continue with this Garnishment. 

I was confused because for those 3 months they showed me my wife and daughter will still living with me and they did not move out until October. How can one get charged for Child Support when your daughter lives with you and you are still paying all the Bills?

But you can get charged when your wife lied about those dates. I assumed she told Welfare that she had been living on her own since July and not October, to get more money from them. I suppose she never expected this to come back and haunt her one day. She would be right as it came back to haunt me one day instead.

Sure I could have argued this point with CSA, and with proof I am sure that eventually I would have won. Which during all this time looked terrible in front of my employer, as nobody likes dead beat dads. But the best case senario would be that my wife would be convicted of fraud and go to jail for a few months. Which I did no benefit from at that time at all. So I paid them the $3,000 I never even owed them to make them happy and to close this case. 

But my complaint isn't that the CSA tried to collect money they felt was owned to them. My Beef is that in all this time not one time did anyone call me and ask me about it. That my wifes word was the gospel and that my word would just be garbage and just a lie. When they knew nothing about me, but yet did have my telephone number. 

This case was cloesd that very aftenoon but it did not just cause me to pay $3,000 I did not owe. This caused my reputation to be damaged at work which could not be repaired, and stayed with me for as long as I worked there, Nobody from CSA called to say it was a mstake, as in there eyes there wasn't a mistake. 

So I have been there and I know how these people act, and I say the same many years later. They have far too much power to make decisisons like this by taking away Passports or Driver's Licenses, and this needs to be controlled and stopped. A Collection Agency cannot do things like this without going through the legal process and steps first, but CSA can do this whenever they like and are in the mood to do so.  .  .     .   

4 hours ago, giddyup said:

Fell behind to the tune of $45,000! How are they going to collect any money if the OP is living in Thailand? I know a guy who has been living here (Thailand) for years purely to escape paying one penny in child support. Hardly fair on his kids is it?

I agree that a father who escaped his own country just to avoid paying any money to help his own children is not fair to these kids. But lets look at this from a different angle. 

1) It is not easy to just pack up and move to a country like Thailand and start all over again. I know many people do this but they either have some job to go to, money saved, or perhaps a regular pension check coming in from the government.

Since the OP is $45,000 in arrears with the CSA, then any savings he would have had would have been taken away a long time ago, and any Pension Check would be garnished by now as well. So the OP would really have to start all over again with basically nothing. With limited job selection here, like being an English Teachers for $1,000 a month, I hardly doubt anyone would give up a well payig job to just come here to live and avoid Child Support. 

2) Child Support can be enforced in several different countries, in which Thailand is one of those counties. I admit that ths process is not easy, costly and time consuming, but it can be done.

3) What if this shoe was on the other foot? What if he was living here and his X and Children were also living here, and he fell behind in his payments to the tune of $45,000? What law is in place now to take away his passport so he could not go home to Austraila and skip making payments? None perhaps? 

You mentioned one person you know who moved to Thailand just to avoid making Child Support Payments. But I venture to say there is a lot more men who skipped Thailand and went back home and left a wife and kids to raise on there own. Because it is easier to do it that way!

4) You say they took away his passort for the kids sake because he is $45,000 in arrears? Okay! So since they now have his passport how much more money did they get out of him for these kids? Would Zero be close? 

The Kids did not gain one penny by the CSA taking away his passport. So the CSA did not do this to benefit the Kids but rather used it as a form of punishment towards the OP. If the CSA has not been able to collect from him after all these years, then taking his passport away achieves nothing. 

I am all for a Man who should help support his kids after a Divorce, but there is a fine line between giving reasonable financial help, or being expected to provide all the help and getting stuck with all the Bills. I would venture to say that to be behind with CS Payments to the tune of $45,000 then his payments had to be high.   

8 hours ago, bristolboy said:

It's doesn't stand for the 7 richest nations in the world. China and India aren't members. 

That said, Canada is the 10th richest country in the world. And given that its population is a bit smaller than California's, that's quite impressive. By no rational standards does Canada have a small, insignificant economy. Of course, to a Trump supporter, rational standards generally are of no consequence.

I stand to be corrected. The G7 was formed and stood for the Group of 7 Richest and most (Technically) Advanced Countries in the World. With this criteria in mind this is why China and India could not be allowed to join as even if there Economies meets the criteria, they are not technically advanced countries. 

The same holds true about Russia. Some believe that when Russia joined it was then called the G8, or Group of 8. But in reality it never was called this technically, and only reported this way. The technical name was the G7 +1.

Again Russia lost out on the criteria of not being technically an advanced country. Even if they could make the A Bomb.I beleive being technically advanced has more to do with your labour force and secondary educaion, the standard of living, but I am not 100% sure about that part.    

4 hours ago, Justfine said:

GDP ppp per capita Canada only ranked 34th last year.

 

Not even close to top 7.

When you look at per capita income and like you are doing, you are not looking at a countries wealth, but rather the average yearly income per person in that country. That is a big difference! 

For example China has the second largest economy in the world today and only behind the USA, and thus larger than Canada, but because of a huge population it ranks 79th place, and behind Canada, when measured in per capita income, and what you are measuring this in. 

On the other end of this scale you have Qatar ranked as the 1st on per capita income, but surely not having the largest economy in the world. and larger than the USA, China, or Japan. It is ranked 1st because the country is quite wealthy in Oil & Gas but mostly because this country also has a very low population, making the per capita income higher.

When you are looking at Oranges and counting them as Apples then your figures are bound to be off. I can assure you that Canada is at least in the top 10 wealthy and most advanced countries in the World. Which are 2 of the criteria to be in the Group of 7. 

14 minutes ago, duanebigsby said:

I have worked along side quite a few fantastic Filipino teachers here. But they were always asking me to proofread their tests or lesson plans and also asking "how do I pronounce this or this"

Thai English teachers the same questions.

 

Native English speakers should be a valued resource in Thai schools.

 

ps. I can barely understand a word a Nigerian says.

I agree that Native English Speakers should be (a more) valued resource in Thai Schools. Especially the good ones, educated one, and experienced ones, who enjoy teaching and get personal satifaction from seeing there accomplishments. 

But look at yourself and your own post. You are an English Teachers in some school. But also look at how much help is required from you to help other Filipino Teachers! In there lies the problem! You should not be an English Teacher but in fact a Supervisor who is paid more than to the other Foreign English Teachers for the Philippeans  and Nigeria, But you are not by much as you give this service away free of charge.  

6 hours ago, Justfine said:

Canada is a small insignificant economy compared to most.

 

It's odd how trying to solve the NK brings out all the haters.

 

After 50 years of gaining no ground finally a POTUS tries to deal with the issues and all the haters can do is complain.

 

 

The G7 stands for the Group of 7 Richest Countries in the World, which was recently held in Canada.

You calling Canada a small insignificant economy compared to most is like you being the 7th Richest Person in the World and me calling this nothing and insignificant compared to most other peoples wealth. 

Really????

There is several problems in your analysis that needs to be mentioned first. 

1) There are several English Speaking Countries who have Experienced Teachers, all willing to work for a lower wage, longer hours, and don't care about school lunches. The Philippines and Nigeria are just two of them. 

2) At what level of education and training do you need to teach High School Students in Thailand a few classes a week? I venture to say that many of the English Teachers employed now, have very little teaching experience or actual training. 

3) The real solution to this English Learning Problem for Thailand isn't to hire more Farang English Teachers by paying them more money, with less hours and more benefits. The real solution is to teach the teachers the English Language, and pay them better for learning that.   

17 minutes ago, theguyfromanotherforum said:

I read only 2 pages, so I don't know is someone already made the following points.

 

I strongly disagree that you should be banned from travel on basis of owing money for child support. Even peados seem to have no such issues when traveling to Thailand.

 

Your ex did you a huge favor without you even knowing. I dated a Thai student in Canada and although she is most likely a decent girl, she will still want you to hold her hand and do everything for her (including find her,a job)-which will put you into a very difficult financial situation. 

 

Thank your lucky stars.

I do agree with you that he should not be banned for travel. Every citizen in a civilized country should have the right to have there own passport and free to travel.

With the one exception being that if you are charged with a Major Crime, and part of your Bail Agreement is you turn in your Passport and agree not to leave the country. But this is an agreement made between you and a Judge in a Court of Law.

The trouble with organizations like CSA is they have the power of the law on there side at all times and no matter what and tus act like Gods. To make decissions like forbidding you to travel or even take your Driver License away on you, for no other reason then punishment because you are in arrears. Who gave then this right?

What about your rights? In a court of law you have the right to appeal any judges decission. What appeal rights does one have beening judged and convicted by someone in the CSA who may not even know about your case well enough to make any decission about you, and without you even being able to say a single word to anyone there about that either. 

Okay! You fell behind in your Child Support Payments and like any Collection Agency they have the right to collect this money, through legal means. But taking any ones Passport or Driver License to punish someone should not be in there power. To do that I would think a person should at least have his day in court.