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He's lucky he got news coverage. That's what saved him. Nothing serious would've happened to him, because everyone now knows who he is. If nobody knew him, he would've been dealt with more severely, or quite likely, disappeared.

Yup. The Thai English teachers focus on grammar, while the native speaker is allowed to put the language in action, with conversational exercises, speaking activities, Q&A, etc. Dept heads especially love photo ops where the students are taking turns giving recitals, as the farang guides them along. Look, they're speaking English. The rationale is that the Thai teacher's limited English is sufficient to teach them grammatical rules, while the assets of native speakers can best be used to actually demonstrate the language, so that students can hear it spoken with correct (or closer to it) pronunciation, which they're unlikely to get anywhere else in their daily lives in Thailand, especially out here in the countryside. I don't mind at all as I hate teaching grammar, and my MA in English actually took pains to tell us not to teach it explicitly. Don't teach the rules, show them. Give them language they can immediately put to use. They can't ask for help at the grocery store with a table of past perfect and past continuous conjugations. That's what Chinese and Japanese students typically get, which is why they now come to me online, telling me that after their years of English in high school and university, they can barely speak it.

I'd say over half the Casio G-Shocks on Lazada are fake. A dead giveway is that they're under 1k baht, while real ones are 3k+. They are shameless listings with Casio logos, shields, and "100% genuine". They go through the trouble of photoing fake boxes, manuals, and even fake CMG stickers implying they came through the Central group. If you look closely you'll see the fonts are a bit strange and the printing is sloppy. Lazada does nothing about them.

These stories make the news. But 99.99% of the time in Thailand, there is no recourse at all to student behavior. They are allowed to get away with murder. I have some classes where half the students show up. Students repeatedly get up to goof off around a classroom, ignoring both farang and Thai teachers. When this is brought up, shoulders are shrugged, and "up to them" is always the answer.

Is this another, or the same one? Thai Rath reported another similar story about a week ago, soldier and maid of some high ranking lady. The abused had set up a hidden camera to catch the abuser inspecting the floor, then smacking her while going "mai sa-ad, mai sa-ad!" (not clean, not clean!) The news then showed a bruise on her leg, but none of the other gruesome details told here. I wish I had recorded all the insanity the psychos at that joke of a certain famous BKK private school had said to me while working there.

Mmm. Good memories of Soi 22 Queen's Park Plaza, when the mamasan would draw the curtains and turn down the lights, to keep the party going. I also was once in this Sukhumvit pub. A beautiful lady was sitting at the bar alone, playing on her phone. You know the type. It's a regular pub and not a girly bar, but there's occasionally one resident lady they have made available, should any of the patrons desire company. I stayed until closing watching football, and gradually the crowd cleared out. Then it was just me and her there alone. We looked at each other and smiled. Poor thing, waiting there all night with no takers. If I wasn't already married... The manager then began closing the roll down gate, and asked for my last order. Just then, creeping under the gate.... OI! OI! OI! What looked like a whole rugby team strutted in, about a dozen guys, all kitted out in sport gear. The lady had been wearing a trench coat, and then she took it off. Ooo hoo, nothing but a lingerie teddy under there. I suppose the team had her booked. The manager then closed the front gate completely, and told me to go out the back. Looked like they had quite the match lined up. Unfortunately, I couldn't stay.

And so the teachers are doing just that. In the United States 300k have been quitting every year. Then during the pandemic nearly 3 million quit. When you have that many quitting I don't think the teachers are the problem. It appears the education system is at fault. Kids are running amok. They mouth off, throw tantrums, destroy classrooms. Teachers aren't getting the support they need from useless administrators, and certainly not the parents, both of whom have jobs they should be doing, but aren't. Tough talk solves nothing and only allows the problem to continue. "Don't like it? Find another job.", "Don't like the sinking ship? Learn to swim.", "Don't like drunken pilots crashing the planes? Bring a parachute." Hah. Why not just address the problem? Ah, difficult, I know. And talk is cheap. Oh, if only we could take all the energy spent on this AN chest puffing and barstool banter, and channel it into something productive. Meanwhile, teachers like me are actually in front of the classrooms, continuing to do the difficult work that needs to be done.