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Cake Monster

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  1. My sincere thanks to both Cooked and Bikerlou47 for their input on this subject.

    After all, the children are our future

    English is the language of the world, but here in Thailand, the world doesnt exist outside the Thai border.

    The reason the children here cannot even speak English, is because they are not taught the " Phonics System " of speaking.

    A sounds like Ahh , B sounds like Buhh Etc, and there is very little access to any childrens books that are in English.

    Pattaya Beach Bookshop in the mall on the second floor of "TOPS Supermarket " has some, but the gentleman that owns the store told me the Thai schools take them all out and never return them - What a surprise

    My child is fluent in both Thai and English thankfully, but I dont want here talent to be ruined here.

  2. From the small amount of info I have been able to gleen, there is a system here whereby the parents of the children do the education / teaching of the children. I have been led to believe that in order to do this, you must first register the child at a school, and sign a declaration that you will do the education at home. You then purchase the relevant curriculum material from the school ( books Etc ) The child is then educated by the parents following the curriculum as laid down.
    At the end of course (term ) the child then sits the exam for which they have been studying at the school of registration along with all the other children. Of course, the info that available is very scarce - as you would expect here, and the schools are very reluctant to assist in any way because they loose the student fees. Maybe there are other forum members that can clarify this information ?
    I have been prompted to look into this option because I can see my childs performance slowly eroding due to bad teachers and schooling. Did you know, Thailand was ranked at number 50 out of 65 developing nations in a O.E.C.D. PISA report in mid December 2013 The ranking was about 20 % below the average of all the nations surveyed - Vietnam was appprox 20 % above the average As for a good school in Pattaya ? When you find it let us all know

  3. Hello forum members,

    Has anybody enrolled in a home / online schooling course for their children here in Thailand ?

    As a parent that is totally dissapointed by the poor standard of education here in Thailand, I am thinking of educating my child here, at home, myself.

    has anybody had experience of this, and could you offer me some advise on this matter, as I am not even sure how to start going about this.

    thanks

  4. As a citizen of a western advanced nation, I am really not at all surprised by this statement.

    Indeed, I am wondering why the fatalities are not higher, as living and driving in Pattaya is like a real life horrific "Play Station" game, to be played every day on the roads here.

    A friend of mine that stayed with me on a visit, likened Pattaya to an "Old Wild West" town in the Gold rush that had been brought forward to the present day.

    His one and only visit to Thailand

    When you take a totally inadequit Police Force/Law Enforcement system, the total disregard for drink / drug driving, and the attitude that many Thais, and indeed some "farangs" have that the law is for somebody else to obey, and not for me, then the concequences will show in headlines like these.

    Combine these things with a country that has a populus of over 14 Million people without any form of a driving licsense ( that take only days to aquire )or formal training with vehicles, a poor education system for the masses, along with a culture where life is cheap, and there is absolutely no way to improve the horrendous death toll.

    Sure the Government are concerned, because of the potential loss of revenue from tourists that consider,( and rightly so ) that Thailand is much too dangerous a place for a family holiday.

    Will the situation improve at all over the next few years ? - I very much doubt that it will

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