stevemiddie

Stevemiddie:

Keep your shares for the time being....

Ahead of the Bell: Google

February 27, 2008 9:17 AM ET

"NEW YORK (AP) - An analyst kept a strong view of Google Inc. Wednesday despite recent erosions to shares of the Internet search engine and news earlier this week that "paid clicks" at the site were flat over last year.

Banc of America Securities analyst Brian J. Pitz kept his "Buy" rating but cut hits price target to $700 from $775 on the Mountain View, Calif., company and said it remains one of his top picks.

Despite the paid click data, "we remain positive on Google and would be buyers at these levels," Pitz said in a client note.

Shares of Google fell $4.96 to $459.30 in premarket trading Wednesday. The stock has lost 37.4 percent of its value since an all-time high of $741.79 set on Nov. 6, 2007."

http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/...&id=8249385

Note:

Buy some more if GOOG dives below $ 450.--

LaoPo

Thank you for that. I was always considering holding onto them unless I ever had a real cash emergency.

I have read some of JacknDanny,s post,s. He is quite an arrogant cocky so and so, often offensive. Obviously he has issues in his life. I suspect deep down, he is quite unhappy.

Your funny!!

Guess teacher always wants to get in the last word

Where did you get that idea from ?

Stevemiddie:

Keep your shares for the time being....

Ahead of the Bell: Google

February 27, 2008 9:17 AM ET

"NEW YORK (AP) - An analyst kept a strong view of Google Inc. Wednesday despite recent erosions to shares of the Internet search engine and news earlier this week that "paid clicks" at the site were flat over last year.

Banc of America Securities analyst Brian J. Pitz kept his "Buy" rating but cut hits price target to $700 from $775 on the Mountain View, Calif., company and said it remains one of his top picks.

Despite the paid click data, "we remain positive on Google and would be buyers at these levels," Pitz said in a client note.

Shares of Google fell $4.96 to $459.30 in premarket trading Wednesday. The stock has lost 37.4 percent of its value since an all-time high of $741.79 set on Nov. 6, 2007."

http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/...&id=8249385

Note:

Buy some more if GOOG dives below $ 450.--

LaoPo

Thank you for that. I was always considering holding onto them unless I ever had a real cash emergency.

I have read some of JacknDanny,s post,s. He is quite an arrogant cocky so and so, often offensive. Obviously he has issues in his life. I suspect deep down, he is quite unhappy.

Did you actually read my post?

facilities, teachers, environment, and behavior are but just a few things that need to be taken into account on top of the curriculum

What other things are there?

What other things are there? ......Too many to mention. How about the following for starters? Student stimulation, talent identification and policy for gifted students, teacher development programmes, community involvement (two-way), school track record (student success rate). I could go on.

Jeeeeez. Student stimulation? That comes under...." teachers and facilties " Talent identification? Teachers again. ( I recommended two students for more advanced math )

Teacher development programmes? Isn,t that always ongoing?

Community comes under environment ( in relation to schools along with socio-economic groups and a myriad of other stuff )

Student success rate? What........teachers don,t keep track of that?

All of the above are sub-headings under the main topics of Facilties, Teachers, Environment, Behaviour, Curriculum and objectives.

There are lots of things I read on the Internet which I don't believe, a disproportionate number of which are here in TV and no where so concentrated as in posts discussing 'personal wealth and investments'.

Of course what I believe and what I do not believe varies from post to post, but in this particular case I find, among other things, the idea that anyone is going to make financial decisions involving hundreds of thousands of dollars on the basis of advice received on TV's 'General' forum.

Maybe its the fact I haven't had a beer for a few weeks now, or maybe its something else.... either way, I'm taking this post with a large pinch of salt.

Agreed,

He is a teacher, earning a pittance, according to his own admissions previously.

He invests 10k UK which he can sell now to release 5.5 million baht, and he comes on here to ask all these armchair financial analysts what to do!!!!!!!!!!!!

In one word <deleted>

You really are quite the know all.

Back in 2004 I lived in Gloucester MA. Thats in the USA in case you have problems understanding that.

Married to an American lass who,s father worked and still does.............for Goldman Sachs in Boston. That,s a little investment bank ( amongst other things ) in case you didn,t know.

My OP stated I took advice.................which I did. He bought the shares for me amongst a million other things. I simply gave him the money. And yes.........the shares were at $84.00. Why do you have a hard time understanding that?

I have since divorced ( not amicably ) and left the USA after selling the small company I had over there. My wife got half...........but I kept the shares and some other stuff.

I then located to Thailand in 2005.

I work as a teacher and its a pittance...........so what? I like working. I have my own place, my own car, a couple of bikes paid for with the other half of the company sale. I,m not bragging. Far from it. I got lucky. Thats it. End of.

I came on here to ask advice from folk on TV, some who seem quite intelligent about financial matters. Because I am nowhere near even a beginner on the stock markets. I take advice.

So as for you saying " <deleted>" to me JacknDanny..........do me a favour and and ask your Mitsi avator to do the same to you.

Same applies to you Guesthouse.

To the more sensible posters who have asked................no, I did not sell the other 50%. I still have those.

No doubt JacknDanny will gloat. I don,t see it that way.

Its so funny, you answered every part of my post except the part where I asked for proof of the trade, whereupon, I would donate 20k to your favourite charity.

Call me a sceptic, but if someone had accused me of bullsh!tting about a trade I would have had proof in his hand the very next day!!

Why on earth would you do that?

Insecurity problems? I think you need to grow up a little. Perfect avatar for you by the way.

So you do not have proof of either the purchase or the sale.

Dream on sunshine

I don,t need too. I have nothing to prove to **********,s.

There are lots of things I read on the Internet which I don't believe, a disproportionate number of which are here in TV and no where so concentrated as in posts discussing 'personal wealth and investments'.

Of course what I believe and what I do not believe varies from post to post, but in this particular case I find, among other things, the idea that anyone is going to make financial decisions involving hundreds of thousands of dollars on the basis of advice received on TV's 'General' forum.

Maybe its the fact I haven't had a beer for a few weeks now, or maybe its something else.... either way, I'm taking this post with a large pinch of salt.

Agreed,

He is a teacher, earning a pittance, according to his own admissions previously.

He invests 10k UK which he can sell now to release 5.5 million baht, and he comes on here to ask all these armchair financial analysts what to do!!!!!!!!!!!!

In one word <deleted>

You really are quite the know all.

Back in 2004 I lived in Gloucester MA. Thats in the USA in case you have problems understanding that.

Married to an American lass who,s father worked and still does.............for Goldman Sachs in Boston. That,s a little investment bank ( amongst other things ) in case you didn,t know.

My OP stated I took advice.................which I did. He bought the shares for me amongst a million other things. I simply gave him the money. And yes.........the shares were at $84.00. Why do you have a hard time understanding that?

I have since divorced ( not amicably ) and left the USA after selling the small company I had over there. My wife got half...........but I kept the shares and some other stuff.

I then located to Thailand in 2005.

I work as a teacher and its a pittance...........so what? I like working. I have my own place, my own car, a couple of bikes paid for with the other half of the company sale. I,m not bragging. Far from it. I got lucky. Thats it. End of.

I came on here to ask advice from folk on TV, some who seem quite intelligent about financial matters. Because I am nowhere near even a beginner on the stock markets. I take advice.

So as for you saying " <deleted>" to me JacknDanny..........do me a favour and and ask your Mitsi avator to do the same to you.

Same applies to you Guesthouse.

To the more sensible posters who have asked................no, I did not sell the other 50%. I still have those.

No doubt JacknDanny will gloat. I don,t see it that way.

Its so funny, you answered every part of my post except the part where I asked for proof of the trade, whereupon, I would donate 20k to your favourite charity.

Call me a sceptic, but if someone had accused me of bullsh!tting about a trade I would have had proof in his hand the very next day!!

Why on earth would you do that?

Insecurity problems? I think you need to grow up a little. Perfect avatar for you by the way.

There are lots of things I read on the Internet which I don't believe, a disproportionate number of which are here in TV and no where so concentrated as in posts discussing 'personal wealth and investments'.

Of course what I believe and what I do not believe varies from post to post, but in this particular case I find, among other things, the idea that anyone is going to make financial decisions involving hundreds of thousands of dollars on the basis of advice received on TV's 'General' forum.

Maybe its the fact I haven't had a beer for a few weeks now, or maybe its something else.... either way, I'm taking this post with a large pinch of salt.

Agreed,

He is a teacher, earning a pittance, according to his own admissions previously.

He invests 10k UK which he can sell now to release 5.5 million baht, and he comes on here to ask all these armchair financial analysts what to do!!!!!!!!!!!!

In one word <deleted>

You really are quite the know all.

Back in 2004 I lived in Gloucester MA. Thats in the USA in case you have problems understanding that.

Married to an American lass who,s father worked and still does.............for Goldman Sachs in Boston. That,s a little investment bank ( amongst other things ) in case you didn,t know.

My OP stated I took advice.................which I did. He bought the shares for me amongst a million other things. I simply gave him the money. And yes.........the shares were at $84.00. Why do you have a hard time understanding that?

I have since divorced ( not amicably ) and left the USA after selling the small company I had over there. My wife got half...........but I kept the shares and some other stuff.

I then located to Thailand in 2005.

I work as a teacher and its a pittance...........so what? I like working. I have my own place, my own car, a couple of bikes paid for with the other half of the company sale. I,m not bragging. Far from it. I got lucky. Thats it. End of.

I came on here to ask advice from folk on TV, some who seem quite intelligent about financial matters. Because I am nowhere near even a beginner on the stock markets. I take advice.

So as for you saying " <deleted>" to me JacknDanny..........do me a favour and and ask your Mitsi avator to do the same to you.

Same applies to you Guesthouse.

To the more sensible posters who have asked................no, I did not sell the other 50%. I still have those.

No doubt JacknDanny will gloat. I don,t see it that way.

Its so funny, you answered every part of my post except the part where I asked for proof of the trade, whereupon, I would donate 20k to your favourite charity.

Call me a sceptic, but if someone had accused me of bullsh!tting about a trade I would have had proof in his hand the very next day!!

Oh get lost. You really are a ********. Whats the matter? Having a bad hair day?

Sold through Redmayne-Bentley in Leeds......UK.

Paperwork sent to fathers home in the UK. Money into my UK bank.

I take a little what I need from it through Moneybookers if I want to treat my wife to a few days away.

( Read the posts on Paypal )

Do me a favour you jealous little **** and wallow in your self-pity.

There are lots of things I read on the Internet which I don't believe, a disproportionate number of which are here in TV and no where so concentrated as in posts discussing 'personal wealth and investments'.

Of course what I believe and what I do not believe varies from post to post, but in this particular case I find, among other things, the idea that anyone is going to make financial decisions involving hundreds of thousands of dollars on the basis of advice received on TV's 'General' forum.

Maybe its the fact I haven't had a beer for a few weeks now, or maybe its something else.... either way, I'm taking this post with a large pinch of salt.

Agreed,

He is a teacher, earning a pittance, according to his own admissions previously.

He invests 10k UK which he can sell now to release 5.5 million baht, and he comes on here to ask all these armchair financial analysts what to do!!!!!!!!!!!!

In one word <deleted>

You really are quite the know all.

Back in 2004 I lived in Gloucester MA. Thats in the USA in case you have problems understanding that.

Married to an American lass who,s father worked and still does.............for Goldman Sachs in Boston. That,s a little investment bank ( amongst other things ) in case you didn,t know.

My OP stated I took advice.................which I did. He bought the shares for me amongst a million other things. I simply gave him the money. And yes.........the shares were at $84.00 ........maybe 85. I,m not 100%. It was 4 years ago. Why do you have a hard time understanding that?

I have since divorced ( not amicably ) and left the USA after selling the small company I had over there. My wife got half...........but I kept the shares and some other stuff.

I then located to Thailand in 2005.

I work as a teacher and its a pittance...........so what? I like working. I have my own place, my own car, a couple of bikes paid for with the other half of the company sale. I,m not bragging. Far from it. I got lucky. Thats it. End of.

I came on here to ask advice from folk on TV, some who seem quite intelligent about financial matters. Because I am nowhere near even a beginner on the stock markets. I take advice.

So as for you saying " <deleted>" to me JacknDanny..........do me a favour and and ask your Mitsi avator to do the same to you.

Same applies to you Guesthouse.

To the more sensible posters who have asked................no, I did not sell the other 50%. I still have those.

No doubt JacknDanny will gloat. I don,t see it that way.

Yes it does. I use it ( web card from Kasi )

However, you pay way over the odds when using Paypal for currency conversions. Its almost 10 %.

I now use Moneybookers. Its much cheaper.

Im also suffering with Paypals extortianate conversion rate.

Just withdrawn USD$3,360 from my Paypal account and I got a pathetic 100,000 baht. The same conversion with Bangkok Bank account would have given me 111,000 baht ! A nice 10% straight into Paypal's pocket !!

Stevemiddle, whats Moneybookers like for currency conversion ? I imagine they still hit you ?.....

Sorry for late reply. Missed the post. In any event the info I have now is more current as I used moneybookers on Monday.

Transferred 450 UK pounds to my account which is in Thai baht. Received 27,540 baht so that equates to approx 61 baht to the UK pound.

That makes the conversion cost around 3 - 3.5 %. Far better than Paypals 10 %.

AND Moneybookers IS accepted on Ebay. They even give you a link to the HTML to paste onto your ad for instant payment via the LOGO

Well...............I took my seat to the shop on 3rd road near Carrefour. He wanted 1000 baht and would not budge on price.

Found a shop on 3rd road near the junction with soi 17 ( near Tony,s trade centre ) Charged me 450 for 2 colours in a good quality fabric. He also replaced the sponge.

Great job.

Thanks for all the help guys.

Did you actually read my post?

facilities, teachers, environment, and behavior are but just a few things that need to be taken into account on top of the curriculum

What other things are there?

You don,t know? Oh.

Why would you have to ask the school if you can post?

If you are advising people on Satit school then the least you can do is state what its curriculum and objectives are?

Well................B.E.S.T has 3...............Anuban, Prathom and Senior. Same objectives though. On top of that there are seperate teachers curriculum.....which we have to do because some parts of specific course books are not relevant to the children in Thailand.

I of course would like to ensure what I post is in fact correct as I am not a teacher, hence I will confirm for you when at the school tomorrow.

I am not advising anyone to go to Sattit, merely passing on my first hand experiences, my advise has always been go speak with the teachers as I did, I actually advised someone on another thread to check out Best as well against other peoples advice.

I am not biased in anyway against Best, as far as I am concerned Sattit is a better option for my children at this point of the education.

Education involves a lot more than a curriculum, facilities, teachers, environment, and behavior are but just a few things that need to be taken into account on top of the curriculum. I would expect teachers to be aware of this if they have had proper teacher training.

Sarcasm. Lowest form of wit.

I am not a qualified UK teacher ?

I was interviewd by phone at Satit....I turned them down. 1 year ago.

I agree the facilties at Satit are superior. No doubt.

If parents judged B.E.S.T on facilties alone..............the school would probably be empty. No doubt.

I am happy that your children are enjoying themselves. That is important. Point is...........a teachers role is to educate. Facilties are down to school owners and management. Or do you disagree?

B.E.S.T may be lacking in some facilties............but they do have a clear objective and the curriculum reflects that.

Correct me if I,m wrong....but wasn,t B.E.S.T school graded no.1 on the Eastern Seaboard for its EP last year? By the MoE?

You will be aware of course that all schools in the Chonburi region are currently undergoing grading exams in order to determine the top performers? In line with MoE requirements? I believe B.E.S.T will score highly again. We shall see.

I can only speak about what some ex-Satit teachers have stated..........that the curriculum is confused.

As a parent, I would not be brainwashed by wonderful facilties and environment alone. I would question the academia also. ( That word is derived from Greek ) but hey.....what would I know.........I,m not a teacher right?

When you state in your earlier posts that you would not want any of the B.E.S.T parents to send their children to that school.......you open yourself to responses such as this.

Children being happy is important, but it is not paramount. I could take my students outside and play tic-tac-toe all day, along with football and hide and seek. Will they be happy? SURE ! But they learn what?? Teamwork? Interactivity? Sure.

Knowledge? Doubtful. Math? Zilch. Grammar? Errrrrrrrrrrr. No.

You don,t even know what the curriculum is. Social studies? What social studies are they learning?

I will admit............the social studies at B.E.S.T are errrrrrrrrrrrrrr not good. Hence why teachers develop their own curriculum. I mean..........what interest is it to children about the Brighton seaside 50 years ago? Thats in our books. We binned it. Now they learn about the importance of oil, what countries produce this? Is it a finite resource or an infinite resource? Blah blah blah.

What are they teaching your children? You don,t know because you don,t even know the curriculum, the objectives, the philosophy or the method of teaching. And thats a fact.

You go ahead and ask the school................before you come out with sarcastic and unfounded comments.

To Clarify...

Teacher's License Test - 5,000 Baht

Thai Cultural Course - 8,000 Baht

TOTAL - 13,000 Baht

Or no Visa, Work Permit or Job

OH... 2008 is going to be a FUN year.

CS

You,re being screwed.

WE are doing the course for 5000 baht and the 4 exams at 1000 baht a piece. Total = 9000 baht.

Yes, keep adding lots and lots of rules... just like 'home. I wonder why folks move to a new country, complain that it's not like their former residence, and promote the same way of life that drove us here??? Sorry for the run on sentence :-)

I can assure you that the "way of life" in the USA is definitely NOT among the things that drove me here.

Out of interest what did?

Most of it is, I'm sure, of no interest to anyone here. But, since you asked politely, and with the assurance that I neither seek nor deserve any sympathy, here's the brief list; and the "long, sad story" that goes with it.

1. I have been married to my Thai wife for over 30 years. We lived all of those years in my home country, the USA. I promissed her, many years ago, that I would retire to Thailand. The many visits I had made to Thailand on vacations did not give me an accurate impression of what everyday life here would be like. We had visited Pattaya only once, on one of our first vacations here, back in the 70's. Needless to say, it was a much different place then, with the "nightlife" area much smaller, and more contained, as my aging brain remembers it.

2. I had a reasonable amount of success in my business career in the USA. However, I did an embarassingly lousy job of saving for retirement. I did end up with enough, including the sale of our US home, to immediately buy our house (which is much larger, and with more surrounding property, than what we had in the USA) and our car (which is much smaller, and less comfortable than my Buick!)) here for cash (in her name, of course). But that investment left me with far too little in savings to finance a return to the USA. My retirement income (pension + Social Security) is enough to live a reasonably comfortable, though certainly not "lavish" lifestyle here. It would be barely enough to survive on in the USA, since housing costs alone would eat up most of it. That's the answer to the "why do you still live here?" question.

3. As for why we're in Pattaya, I blame my own lack of knowledge (and more thorough investigation) of the inferior infrastructure, and sordid environment issues that have been discussed by many in this thread. I regret that I trusted in my wife for the selection of the specific location of the property we bought. The property itself is fine. But once outside the walls ... She simply did not have the experience to consider all of the facts that would affect our daily lives in this area. And I should have known that!

If I had it to do over again, which, for the financial reasons noted above, I do not, I would not be living in this area. I would probably have asked my wife, who made the property search trip alone, to find us a place on the outskirts of BKK. Before her trip, I had specifically said that I did not want to live in BKK, where her family lives, because I am so freaked by the traffic situation there. I now know the problems I would have faced living just outside BKK would pale beside what I dislike about Pattaya! Now that I do live here, I will continue to hope for, and promote in every way that I can, changes that will make this a safer, more comfortable, more convenient area to live, during my lifetime. But I am resigned to the fact that I will never be content with my life here; and cognizant of the fact that I have no one to blame but myself.

I sympathise...to a certain extent.

You DO have your own home, presumably paid for, a car, a wife that you are still with?

You have your health? Friends in Pattaya? USB to watch the Pats?

Your life could be FAR worse. Many peoples lives are worse.

Try to be positive about everything. It could be worse........you could be one of the 2 million Americans facing foreclosure right now.

Thanks for the positive comments guy's.

Good to know your kids are enjoying their time there also.

Will move my son there this coming term.

Are you not going to speak to the teachers and check their qualifications and discuss the curriculum etc. etc.

Satit HAS a curriculum??

Is that meant to be clever? As a teacher I would have expected more, you have just given many parents a reason not to take thier children to Best, this is exactly the sort of attitude and environment I do not want my children in. And you are exactly the type of teacher I do not want educating my children.

Try being possitive rather than trying to be clever and instead sounding ignorant.

First of all Mr Chanman..............it is meant to be a bit " tongue in cheek " . You fail to see that.

However, we currently have 2 teachers here who worked at Satit before. As they say...............lots of beautiful things there, but not a great deal of learning goes on.

My tongue in cheek attitude has nothing to do with teaching abilities. You sir..............are being a little too sensitive.

A Time and a Place and this is neither, people asking serious questions on matters they care dearly about, thier children, and you one who is trusted to look after them 7 hours a day 5 days a week think it is something to be taken lighty, says a lot to me.

Sure. It says some teachers have a sense of humour. And how on earth does a tongue in cheek attitude reflect on care of children?

Out of curiosity........genuinely....... what is the defined curriculum at Satit?

This is helpful to posters..........they need to know what the aims and objectives of the school are? As you are a parent there then perhaps you could explain for the benefit of all the people who are enquiring.

Good idea I will ask them if I can post maybe you can do the same for Best.

Its not the sense of humor but the fact you think that this topic is deserving of your humor. It gives the impression you do not take education and and the fact that people care about their children's education seriously. Perhaps you should think before you post.

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It sounds to me as if you have an axe to grind with this teacher .

Some people think teachers should be seen and not heard.

Thanks for the positive comments guy's.

Good to know your kids are enjoying their time there also.

Will move my son there this coming term.

Are you not going to speak to the teachers and check their qualifications and discuss the curriculum etc. etc.

Satit HAS a curriculum??

Is that meant to be clever? As a teacher I would have expected more, you have just given many parents a reason not to take thier children to Best, this is exactly the sort of attitude and environment I do not want my children in. And you are exactly the type of teacher I do not want educating my children.

Try being possitive rather than trying to be clever and instead sounding ignorant.

First of all Mr Chanman..............it is meant to be a bit " tongue in cheek " . You fail to see that.

However, we currently have 2 teachers here who worked at Satit before. As they say...............lots of beautiful things there, but not a great deal of learning goes on.

My tongue in cheek attitude has nothing to do with teaching abilities. You sir..............are being a little too sensitive.

A Time and a Place and this is neither, people asking serious questions on matters they care dearly about, thier children, and you one who is trusted to look after them 7 hours a day 5 days a week think it is something to be taken lighty, says a lot to me.

Sure. It says some teachers have a sense of humour. And how on earth does a tongue in cheek attitude reflect on care of children?

Out of curiosity........genuinely....... what is the defined curriculum at Satit?

This is helpful to posters..........they need to know what the aims and objectives of the school are? As you are a parent there then perhaps you could explain for the benefit of all the people who are enquiring.

Good idea I will ask them if I can post maybe you can do the same for Best.

You don,t know? Oh.

Why would you have to ask the school if you can post?

If you are advising people on Satit school then the least you can do is state what its curriculum and objectives are?

Well................B.E.S.T has 3...............Anuban, Prathom and Senior. Same objectives though. On top of that there are seperate teachers curriculum.....which we have to do because some parts of specific course books are not relevant to the children in Thailand.

Prior to placing the blame on "these" people, it would be nice to hear what happened

Now what other possible scenario can you imagine other than "these people" causing the accident. Like it or not stupid drivers and the accidents that follow is part of thai culture

Stupid drivers are not just restricted to Thailand. I,ve seen plenty in Calif.

Thanks for the positive comments guy's.

Good to know your kids are enjoying their time there also.

Will move my son there this coming term.

Are you not going to speak to the teachers and check their qualifications and discuss the curriculum etc. etc.

Satit HAS a curriculum??

Is that meant to be clever? As a teacher I would have expected more, you have just given many parents a reason not to take thier children to Best, this is exactly the sort of attitude and environment I do not want my children in. And you are exactly the type of teacher I do not want educating my children.

Try being possitive rather than trying to be clever and instead sounding ignorant.

First of all Mr Chanman..............it is meant to be a bit " tongue in cheek " . You fail to see that.

However, we currently have 2 teachers here who worked at Satit before. As they say...............lots of beautiful things there, but not a great deal of learning goes on.

My tongue in cheek attitude has nothing to do with teaching abilities. You sir..............are being a little too sensitive.

A Time and a Place and this is neither, people asking serious questions on matters they care dearly about, thier children, and you one who is trusted to look after them 7 hours a day 5 days a week think it is something to be taken lighty, says a lot to me.

Sure. It says some teachers have a sense of humour. And how on earth does a tongue in cheek attitude reflect on care of children?

Out of curiosity........genuinely....... what is the defined curriculum at Satit?

This is helpful to posters..........they need to know what the aims and objectives of the school are? As you are a parent there then perhaps you could explain for the benefit of all the people who are enquiring.

Thanks for the positive comments guy's.

Good to know your kids are enjoying their time there also.

Will move my son there this coming term.

Are you not going to speak to the teachers and check their qualifications and discuss the curriculum etc. etc.

Satit HAS a curriculum??

Is that meant to be clever? As a teacher I would have expected more, you have just given many parents a reason not to take thier children to Best, this is exactly the sort of attitude and environment I do not want my children in. And you are exactly the type of teacher I do not want educating my children.

Try being possitive rather than trying to be clever and instead sounding ignorant.

First of all Mr Chanman..............it is meant to be a bit " tongue in cheek " . You fail to see that.

However, we currently have 2 teachers here who worked at Satit before. As they say...............lots of beautiful things there, but not a great deal of learning goes on.

My tongue in cheek attitude has nothing to do with teaching abilities. You sir..............are being a little too sensitive.

Thanks for the positive comments guy's.

Good to know your kids are enjoying their time there also.

Will move my son there this coming term.

Are you not going to speak to the teachers and check their qualifications and discuss the curriculum etc. etc.

Satit HAS a curriculum??

"Of course it's a completly different cattle of fish if you got a native English teacher from Newcastle, Glasgow or Cardiff, same as Sydney, Melbourn or Perth, or even LA, NY or Toronto.'

You seem to have a unique view on what constitutes the English language........and I think that deserves some elucidation...so after you've explained that and "cattle of fish" perhaps you'd explain your theory of accents....???

and then....can you also explain the meaning of "tought", "cause" "completly"?

BTW.. Your keyboards do have a shift key don't they???

I have a shift key? I didn,t know that.

Excuse me Mr.Whitevan, I tought English in Holland, Germany and Switzerland, without speaking any Dutch, German or French. And guess what, these students did understand me, cause they made an effort to do so. Of course it's a completly different cattle of fish if you got a native English teacher from Newcastle, Glasgow or Cardiff, same as Sydney, Melbourn or Perth, or even LA, NY or Toronto.

All the Thai students will have difficulties to understand them once they speak in their own dialect as Thai as such is a phonetic language. Key solution here is to teach the students to listen, which is in my books the most difficult task we face here in Thailand.

I've spoken to teachers from Cambodia, Korea, Vietnam and other Asian neighbouring countries which ( where ) this problem does not exist, as the students go to school there in order to study and not just passing the time, like they do here.

I agree about the UK accents, scouse, geordie etc. I,m also concerned about your level of English too.

By the way...........what is a "cattle of fish" ?

PS. I KNOW my apostrophe key doesn,t work.

........in fact I would rather not have all of the Best parents move their kids here it's a nice balance at present. But I have had only good experiences so far.

Now there's an interesting comment!!! Please could you explain. Thank you.

I,ll go furthur than that....................its a stupid comment.

The children at BEST are a problem?

The parents are a problem?

Regarding all the previous posts about BEST I was under the impression that the management and the facilities were a problem for some parents.................not the children.

Conventional wisdom says it's easy.

teaching forums will tell you to just roll on in and ask.

The schools are that desperate.

Some of them are....most in fact.

To the point that i have an endless stream of 30-50ish blokes rolling in wearing fisherman's pants, no shave and a breath smelling very alcoholish.

usually i hide and tell the thai staff to deal with them.

Would anyone in their right mind nip into a school in the uk stinking of piss and ask for a job?

The interviews are tedious.

You know from the outset that the bloke/bird isn't going to fit in, yet decency dictates that you go through the process.

"do you have any questions?"

"yes, where is the best place to learn thai?"

hmmmmmm.

it is unbelievably difficult to find staff that are good.

they are 90% crap.

If you are serious about living here and serious about working here.

don't take the piss, don't smell like shit.

don't look like the sort of person that kids would run away from.

They deserve better than that.

Maybe there is a reason why the more " professional " types don,t apply there.

Is it a government school? Ya ba dealers stood outside? Crap pay? The school appears dirty and run down?

( just curious )

If you google "supply and demand" you will find it to be a very complicated formula with many variables ,me being a simple Noodle vendor might not comprehend such complicated equations, But i do know that in the bangkok market the demand is far less than the supply , put it any way you want and lets include secondhand properites the supply far outstrips any real demand,

i have the same problem in my soi with my noodles , but when i offer them at half price all of a sudden they sell out , so that is where the demand must be ,

as for your example of holding on to a unit for a further 5 years for the market to catch up , well great theory , called the "pigs fly theory "

You did express one intelligent statement, “Me being a simple noodle vendor.”

Other than that you have no idea what you’re talking about!

If supply greatly outstrips demand then please explain why we are not witnessing a drastic drop in the selling prices of these condos? Are you attempting to tell me that 100% of the people that own these condos are not in need funds for short term uses? That could be the only possible explanation for prices not decreasing when supply is increasing and demand is dropping, as you are stating.

The example I attempted to give you, which you obviously misunderstood is that ownership of a condo is a long term investment that certain individuals have the funds to maintain their investments through the small ups and downs that occur in any long term investment market.

You sir........have no concept of Thai business practices. You are thinking in terms of Western business practices.

Many Thai,s will quite happily sit on an empty property for ages until they get the price they are looking for. The same as their second hand car market.

When things are slow, many Thai,s will increase prices..in the belief that they must make more money from a customer in order to alleviate the lack of income from other non-customers.

I know it doesn,t make sense to westerners, but thats how it is.

Yes it does. I use it ( web card from Kasi )

However, you pay way over the odds when using Paypal for currency conversions. Its almost 10 %.

I now use Moneybookers. Its much cheaper.