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16 hours ago, DJ54 said:

It’s unfortunate as I’ve never been a school teacher I don’t know if there’s measures in place to make sure teachers are teaching correctly and efficiently.

 

Not only Thailand but other APAC schools the country only requires an 8th grade education. Further education 9-12 grade student has to pay a fee. If I’m incorrect please correct me. 

 

With very few few exceptions there are not many people in the world that will be prepared (some what) to take care of themselves with only 

a 8th grade education.

 

As parents,Teachers,Adults etc. We need to make sure the children have at basic/enough education to have the slightest chance of surviving. 

 

To the the best of my understanding and I may be incorrect. minimum age to work is 18 yrs.old, Working in a bar 20 yrs old. Only added bar as in the NE this seems to be one of the fewer work options available.

 

If a person doesn’t have the funds to continue eduction after 8th grade 

(A guy age 13-14 yrs. old). When finish school until legal age what do the children do. Understanding some may work on farm but from looks 

of it not a lot work the farms at this age. 

 

Some will take it upon themselves to read and learn. Some will work farms. Some will look for trouble. Some will unintentionally get in trouble. In the village most shops will sell to anyone any age. I know sometimes I ask the nephew or niece to buy me alcohol, soda whatever. 

One is 6 years old. They never come back empty handed. 

 

My my point is School be mandatory through high school (17-18 years old) there should be free education until you finish high school. If not a system in place to provide funds for families that can’t afford it. 

 

Read this yesterday in US news. Amazing! And good on them to offer this. It’s available to anyone and everyone seeking education in this field 

 

New York University School of Medicine announced that it will give all medical students free tuition

Education in Thailand is provided mainly by the Thai government through the Ministry of Education from pre-school to senior high school. A free basic education of fifteen years is guaranteed by the constitution.^[4]

Compulsory education ends with Mattayom 3 (grade 9), after which pupils can pursue an upper-secondary education in a university-preparatory track, or continue their studies in vocational school programs.^[5]

If you want to bring your child to a"better school", even if the school only has got a good name, it's getting expensive. They'll ask you for at least 20 K, but it could also be 50 K, depending on the structure and how many people are involved in this scam.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Thailand

Just now, DavisH said:

No, the third 5-year licence....most of us have qualifications; one teacher passed the 4 Thai exams. Our newest teacher will have been in the school two years, but he will retire at the end of this academic year. A few have been here 5 years, while the rest of us are between 10 and 17 years (mix of native and non-native speakers). It's just attrition as to why we are the ones left who have licences. I'm almost certain if I quit I will be replaced by a non-native speaker, as there are very few qualified and experienced native speakers left here....or they could be here but the starting salaries are not enough to attract them.  

Thank you very much for your answer. Honestly speaking, I've had around 3,000 baht more ten years ago and I  partly blame the agencies for it. They were the ones who started to pay Filipinos 10 K/month. Of course, did many schools follow and many foreigners are not able to pay all the bills that are much higher than they were ten years ago. 

Very annoying is the fact that more and more schools hire unqualified teachers and let them work as trainers or teacher's assistant. My license will be at my school in a few weeks but if that continues I do not know if I'm willing to cope with all the bs from year to year. If nothing is changing and things get worse, I'll go back and forget about teaching in Thailand. We are all different, but we can't eat stones. 

4 minutes ago, DavisH said:

Everyone in my office has a full teaching licence. I'm on my third. We stopped using agencies a while back as the backpackers just couldn't cut it and many left after a few months. 80% of the teachers now are non-native speakers, as there are many more of them who qualify to get the full teaching licence. 

Are you on your third 5-year license, or on your third provisional teacher's license? Sorry, when I'm asking, but it's often mixed up with the waiver, that's only good for two years.  If everyone in your office has got the 5-year teacher's license your school seems to be an exception. 

3 hours ago, pi2005ni said:

It’s very sad . Many of these Thai kids are actually very very smart , however in many cases they will never have the opportunity to go anywhere in life . The Thai government instead of employing a legal qualified native English speaking teacher go for the cheap option of employing non qualified teachers , Indian , Pakistan, Russian, French who themselves have little command of the English language. I applaud Rotary who have schemes that sponsor some kids who have the ability to do well given the chance . I know many native English speaking ex pats who would gladly teach these kids for free but again the risk of getting arrested is too great . When will the Thai government wake up .

I'm afraid that you forgot to mention the biggest group of foreign teachers in Thailand. Those who made it happen to receive a teacher's license, unfortunately, many based on forged documents. Most of these teachers have got a teacher's license from Khurusapha, but you'll hardly find Caucasian teachers with such a license. 

On 8/7/2015 at 3:39 PM, Bulldozer Dawn said:

I am not say it is not a good bike.

How much, I might buy one as well. The new SR is wayyyy overpriced.

But you'll get quality and no parts will be falling off? I'm also thinking about buying such a bike once my money from a friend arrives. 

    Any reports? How much? Are they reliable?

   I just found this:

    https://www.rideasia.net/motorcycle-forum/threads/stallions-scrambler-400.8737/

   I've seen the new Royal Enfield coming in two models, both with fuel injection, one model is a one seater. Does anybody own one? 

12 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

My neutral is conneceted to Earth in the fuse cabinet. Is this dangerous or not please?

Here's a great explanation:

   https://scottiestech.info/2009/05/16/the-difference-between-neutral-and-earth-ground-in-ac-installations/

  Crossy, would you please have a look if that's right? Thank you very much!!! 

1 hour ago, Rally123 said:

Check to make sure your Negative/Neutral is not connected to your Earth. If it doesn't solve your probs go along to your Electric Company office and ask if they can send a reliable electrician to your house to check it out. They are Uni trained. They sorted out my similar problem and I wasn't charged.

Uni trained? I beg your pardon. Our son studied three years electronics at the local technical college and couldn't even replace a light bulb. 

  It's hard to find a good electrician who knows what he's doing. 

10 minutes ago, 4MyEgo said:

My daughter is 9 ( grade 3) and has been going to school here since year 1.

 

She was born in Sydney, Australia and went to Kindergarden, anyways her English speaking had always been good, she new little Thai but has done extremely well, much to my surprise she has been pulling in perfect 4's on everything, (a little later on that), but is now sort of talking broken English to me and I have told her to speak to me in proper English or not to talk to me at all, when I say the above, it's as if she is a trying to talk to me as if a Thai was trying to talk English to me.

 

Long of the short, her English teacher gave her a written document and has told her to practice it as she has been selected to go into a competition and will be speaking in front of kids, teachers and parents of other schools in the competition. Now her English teacher speaks as if she is a Phillipino and I gather from her marking my daughter English papers from time to time she has no idea, (remember my daughter getting perfect 4's in everything), anyways I took one look at the document and said this is all incorrect, you cannot read this, so I corrected it and gave it to my daughter and said just read it this way and you will be fine, well helleluyah the document came back recorrected by her teacher, enough is enough, so I went to the school and took a copy of my university degree (with honours) and graduate diploma and went and saw her, and literally said, with the recorrected (again) by me, that if she wanted to take my daughter into an English speaking competition, then she could only do so by using proper grammar and words that are spelt correctly so that she could pronounce them correctly.

 

She accepted my way, but not before providing her with another document which was as bad as the first, so I corrected it and sent her a letter stating the I would pull my daughter out of the competition and advise the principal of what had transpired if she wanted to pursue this her way. Well its been three weeks and it appears that the tall poppy syndrome has gone.

I really feel sorry for you and your daughter. The reality about such competitions is that you can basically pay the judges who the winner will be. I've seen that at my former school and couldn't believe my own eyes. That's usually at competitions without foreign judges. Money rules, even at competitions. I fully understand why you've corrected the wrong English, but these people will finally blame your daughter. 

3 minutes ago, HHTel said:

My daughter was failed on English some years ago 'because she had a bad accent'.  My daughter's first language was English, born in the UK!!  She was later entered into a national competition.  She came 5th in Prachuab and neighbouring provinces and, if I remember correctly, 40 something in the whole of Thailand!

The bad accent is always real English where many teachers believe the kids are wrong. Then add an SEA teacher to it and you've got the chaos.

   My son was part of five students who'd won a national skit competition in Bangkok.  But they were only fourth at the Semi-Final in Mukdahan, where the competition took place. The same students from Mukdahan were only the tenth in the Final round in Bangkok.

   Even the teachers received a gold medal and 400,000 baht cash which they then spent on a luxury holiday in Chonburi. The students didn't receive anything. They could read how they've spent the money on the teachers' Facebook pages and it was the last time for him. A very hard lesson for teenagers. 

On 8/17/2018 at 10:29 PM, mii maker said:

Here's a complete paper of the exam.

English exam.pdf

Here's the exam with the right answers. Some typos do exist, but it's shocking how bad the teacher is. 

    You'll need a good PDF reader, I was using Nitro 11 Pro. Please let me know if you can see the answers, it will be easy to change the format. 

1088207746_Englishexam.pdf checked.pdf

2 hours ago, ozmeldo said:

Id read two questions and stopped. That is tragic.

 

I've been lucky enough to have taught in schools and with teachers that are operating way above this level, but I have seen similar. What really difficult is when students challenge the Thai teacher via you. It puts you between a rock and a hard place. It's a huge load of face I'd imagine, when it shouldn't be unless the inconsistencies are endemic.

 

Most tragic for us is that here we sit on borrowed time with waivers, most of us will never be allowed to obtain a license. This is presumably a licensed, tenured, government employee.

 

 

Your statement isn’t really true. The TCT gave all foreigners enough time to do an additional course to upgrade an existing BA. A Diploma in Teacher Education does the trick and the TCT will issue a license for you.

Even for those who haven’t got a BA, it’s possible to obtain a BA in education, mostly online with a couple of “face to face” lessons.

A few years back the TCT somehow lost track of the issued waivers and people started over being on their first provisional license.

23 hours ago, overherebc said:

Back street factories with no licence to produce and let's imagine the level of hygiene and quality control.

Hey Boss, we're nearly out of base powder.

OK, nip down to the local market and get as much cheap flour and talcum powder as you can.

Or buy some cheap Fentanyl from China and get the guys hooked up. 

On 8/18/2018 at 10:08 AM, spidermike007 said:

This is a ridiculous story. Any accident that severe would result in major injury or death. Regardless of the quality of the helmet. When riding a bike in Thailand, it makes sense to use as high quality helmet as you can afford. The head is a precious thing. But, when one is decapitated, it really does not matter how good the helmet is, does it? This guy was obviously driving very recklessly, with no regard to his safety, and an absolute sense of denial of his own mortality. 

 

It is almost as if the entire society here is in denial, about the benefits of safety equipment, and helmets. 

 Prayuth and Prawit will solve the issue soon. 

2 hours ago, manarak said:

question: what's the navy doing in the mountains ??

Fishing? ?

11 hours ago, Damrongsak said:

Wow, that's 3 million fatal doses.

A fatal dose of Fentanyl vs heroin. No wonder that so many people die. They found a drug in Canada that's 100 times more toxic than Fentanyl called Carfentanyl. A sand corn like dose can be fatal. Scary stuff. 

 “Carfentanil is about 100 times more toxic than fentanyl and about 10,000 times more toxic than morphine.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/12/carfentanil-bust-canada-fentanyl-opioid-crisis-dangers

Mexico is a major supplier of methamphetamine to the United States and it the top source of heroin, which is fuelling a surge in opioid addiction. The country is also the principal highway for cocaine trafficked north.

The joke is that "Dealers in White", sometimes also called doctors, have made hundreds of thousands dependent on Opioid Pain Killers. When they had finally realized how huge the damage was, it was already too late and people had to buy heroin because the pills were way more expensive and also only available at the drug scene. If people have no money, it's easier to "find" money when it's only 15 bucks for a hit for Mexican shit heroine, but 25 plus for the same amount of pharmaceutical happiness. ?

Hundreds of kids have already died, the last ones from an overdose of Fentanyl. Another, really unbelievable fact is that you can order 1,000 kg of  Fentanyl, straight from China, or more/. No limit. If you've got the money, you'll be rich in a month, or so. Lol. ?

I've tried it and did all to be ready to receive 10 kg Fentanyl, delivered to Thailand. They did tell me that they would deliver it right to my door, without any problems, and it sounded very reasonable. But I'd love to see these people imprisonned. I'd have made the payment and the Fentanyl would have been delivered to me. But there's no chance, they only catch the little ones. 

Is it possible that some members do not understand what accident really means? 

5 hours ago, kannot said:

theres  always exceptions. I wonder if he was in a low gear and not riding the brakes as  well?

I experience almost every day that motorbike and car drivers drive out of a small Soi, almost invisible. Yes' many truck drivers shouldn't be behind a wheel, but some of them are good drivers. It's not only about the driving skills, it's also about the maintenance of trucks. And we all know that this doesn't exist here. They only do something when the truck has got bigger problems. sad, but true. 

2 hours ago, connda said:

I've never heard of a Thai driver accepting responsibility for an accident as all accidents are either caused by someone else or by a mechanical defect.  Like the boy who cried, "Wolf", it's sorta difficult to believe.  But considering that the truck driver didn't run away, it could actually be true. 

Have you ever heard of a Thai person in general who admitted that he, or she had made a mistake? And I'd even include my own wife I'm married to for 16 years. It's always somebody else to blame, the loss of face is ridiculous, especially when people have to lie, to save face. 

Insanity pure. The child should be behind the driver and not being used as an airbag. Airheads everywhere. 

On 8/16/2018 at 8:48 AM, khwaibah said:

Not at Chong Chom or Choam Sa Ngam Crossing . I use them both.

Be aware that some corrupt Cambodian Immigration officers at Chom Sa Ngam are trying to make some extra money by telling you that a stamp in your PP was missing, or similar.  Just don't pay the 200 or 400 baht they are asking for.

On 5/17/2018 at 4:15 PM, Nemises said:

You know, I think suicide is more about having no money than loneliness. 

Agree, not good being alone, but if you have money there’s always someone to take good care of you and things for you to do...

RIP Sir. 

Having no money and your honey disappeared is the usual way here. No woman is interested in a poor Farang, except the one who just recently posted that Gogo girls pay him for sex. ?

9 minutes ago, kannot said:

Truck brakes are pretty darned  good and either way they should  allow  more  room. Driver training here NON EXISTANT along with maintenance, concentration brain power etc

 

You can't use a good quality truck from a European country as an example of how fast a truck can stop. Please look at all the TATA and other trucks here. 

3 minutes ago, kannot said:

Truck driver too  close...............normal.

Should be able to stop for any reason behind other vehicles etc if he hit the bike he was  too  close even if  the tourist gave no signals and just decided to stop.

 

Not necessarily true if the truck driver wasn't lying. 

At the scene the truck driver, Wichitchai Perngporphan, 44, told police that he was driving from Patong back to the company office of Chockchai Kreuasant Co Ltd in Baan Manik when the accident happened.

Mr Wichitchai said that while driving down the hill toward Bang Tao, the tourist pulled out from the beach entrance and cut across the front of his truck.

Read more at https://www.thephuketnews.com/truck-driver-blames-reckless-tourist-for-motorbike-slam-68293.php#VTEJJVmcVOlls1LV.99

After a motorcycle accident eight years ago with an operation that went completely wrong, I can only assume how well the poor guy's injuries will be treated. I'd have thought that there were witnesses? If the Indian drove out, there's no way a heavy truck can break in time.