markclover

He looks like he's never worked a day in his life.

He probably just tried to order an americano from the All Cafe and they said the usual ''alai, alai, alai, no have''. I would be furious too.

So much for the e-scan paperless offices of the future. We still have an illiterate person in a box squinting and reading numbers.

The Thai education system is fine especially if it has an EP program. I don't understand the desire to get a UK education. The UK provides six years of useless Macbeth and Shakespeare whereas in Thailand they will spend six years focusing on academic and modern test-related English. The level of science and math here is bewildering. I don't understand what my students do in the other subjects but it looks amazing. And then we have the creative side. In England you get f all. Rooms full of musical instruments and modern theater that are never used. Thailand has a strong focus on performing arts and sports. UK is just a miserable damp field in minus 5 weather with only football as a choice.

There are only a few things really: war, virus, asteroid, or earthquake. But moving to another planet and spreading out the human species would solve most of those. After all we are the only species that have worked out how record and pass on information outside of biological information. It seems space travel being the next step in human endeavor is glaringly obvious. War is a piece of <deleted> to solve. Just remind the government that they work for the people and increase social media. The people must have control of the media. This is important.

Hire a Thai woman to do all the post office work for you. They know how to work the system. The chances of the foreigner being able to handle all the paperwork for a business is very slim.

They need to retrain the airport staff. These people are the first point of contact when tourists arrive in Bangkok and they are some of the most rudest lazy people I have ever met. Waving people into different queues based on skin color. Then when you get to the front they say it's the wrong queue. They can not speak English and can not answer simple questions. The first time I arrived in Thailand it was my first time flying and I needed help to fill out a form. They just kept chatting with their friends and ignored me. Finally I approached the staff and they screamed aggressively at me ''over there!'' and then carried on chatting. I went ''over there'' and was sent back again. Eventually a policeman came and helped me with the form. Absolutely disgracefully. These people need to be retrained.

All over body pain and a sore throat. It's called being middle aged.

Apparently passports can survive a plane slamming into two towers and still be perfectly legible. I don't think your washer machine will damage it.

Most sources say ''call security'' but this school doesn't really have any. Other sources say ''remove the child'' but I want to know where does the child go? Do they just walk around the hallway or go to an office. Most of the offices here are empty.

Yes same problem. This is called a Thai toilet.

It's better to teach one child privately than 20 at once. The one child will grow and pass on the skills to others. But if you try to teach 20 kids they will not listen or they will end up watching the totally mute Mr Bean cartoon. I have found private lessons to be more effective.

They are embarrassed that you are shirtless doing manual labour. Or ''working outside''. It is seen as poor people's work. Sometimes the 'old drunk thai man' is actually some family relation and it is wrong to take away his work from him. He probably hasn't moved for the past 10 years and that was his only contribution to the family. You just <deleted> all over it. Shooting stuff in the air sounds way better than being bitten alive by mosquitoes in a kayak.

I can't see the other ones happening. So I guess cancer for me.

What are you going to die of?

Hopefully we get a lockdown again. Working from home is pure bliss.

Pay the fine dead guy.

Use the land bridge before it gets flooded again.

It happens all the time. It's just a way for the Thai teachers to get a salary bonus. It's not about the students.

No excuse. Everyone can make music these days even on a home setup. Do your job Celine.

You don't have to get a fancy online school. I believe you can use an affordable language centre (shopping mall school) and then get the teacher to write a report about the kids progress. This will then be sent to government to prove that the kid received home-schooling. I believe home-schooling is better. It is not worth putting your child though 13 years of school when they could just sit a 1 hour GED, move on and be considered the same level. Government schooling quite simply a waste of time with no clear goal.

I have a degree in English. Is that enough?

Thank you for your replies. The correct answers are: - Remind the students face to face. There is a chance they have genuinely forgotten. - Try to use group assignments / group projects. This way the marking is easier. - Try to do in class assignments this way you can help them and make sure they finish it. - Consider moving to a university because you can't handle children / high school.

I wouldn't mind if I could fail them. But the school has a no fail system. I've noticed that other teachers have dumbed down the material so much it's basically one presentation and a kahoot quiz and everyone automatically passes. I will have start to do this because there is no way a class 37 students will do the assignments on time.

Some of the upper classes (m5, m6) have an attitude that if they don't do the work then the teacher will be fired and replaced. The attitude is 'what are you going to do about it?' I have heard other teachers talk about the m6 class and they said in the past teachers have been fired due to problems in that class. They are often absent because of ''buddhist day, ceremony, help the school, spin a stick, sing a song, go to university, or military training''. I told the boss and she said if I can't handle the class I will be replaced. I am thinking of telling the homeroom teacher but the boss said 'don't hassle the homeroom teachers'. I tried to get them to do the work in class and they just sleep or throw the paper on the floor. Some of them start but don't finish it. The assignments are directly linked to the classpoints and GPA. What is the process for dealing with students that do not meet deadlines?