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On 3/11/2023 at 5:23 AM, nigelforbes said:

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I have lived and worked in Thailand for around 20 years. I am a fully qualified teacher, with education degrees and all. I have aleays worked on my Non O family visa. After a lovely sabbatical of a couple of years, I've started teaching again recently. The school is in the process of getting the TCT and Labor Department aligned and to get the permit issued. This takes a couple of weeks, and a lot of paperwork, photos, copies are involved. So now I am reading that I'm facing possible deportatation for being illegal. Hummm...

Hello, I work for one of the bigger schools on Phuket, and am near the end of my 3 month probation period. Last Thursday I found out, that the school had not even started the Temporary Teachers License with TCT (a waiver). They clearly wait till the end of probation. I will take at least another 4 weeks before the work permit can be issued.

Normally, I dont worry too much, but with the recent Sarasas witch hunt, I feel very uncomfortable. When asking the school, they advise me to wear plain clothes, and when Immigration visits to hide out somewhere. The school's HR, at the main campus, replies that the school has a very good relation with Immigration. So dont worry.

I really like this job, and dont want to lose it, but the risk of being caught still working without work permit are not appealing either.

Do I need to worry and run for the hills, or will Immigration accept that the licensing process, though very late, has started.

ThaiVisa has been hijacked by people with a political purpose. Call it boiler room politics. In the 2006, 2009 and 2010 disturbances there was room for discussion. Now, it's murderous and dangerous rethorics! I am closing my account!

Good Luck !!! I wonder if anyone has the break up of what areas/ provinces that have been paid and the areas that have not been paid in relation to being a PTP support area or not ???? ...... Civil question ..... Has anyone got any FACTS on that ??? or is it just random ??? ....

The in-laws in Chiang Rai were paid months ago. They are active red shirts, so maybe that speeds up the payment process.

Is it not astonishing that the simplest news item - in this case the promotion of the Thai cosmetic industry internationally - can be turned within minutes into an excuse for an obsessive rant against Thaksin.

Indeed very strange! Especially when you take in account that half his family is involved in this government, with his sister-puppet being the PM! Very strange indeed!

What a mess in the States, this yearly power play between both political spectrums. Makes Thai politics look sane almost!

Does she know that these places are in Thailand?

With a lot of things in Thailand, it's the unaccountability and lack of self reflection that leads to poor quality. In Education that is the case on all levels, from principal to student. The principal became principal of who he knows and not what he is able of, and the students pass anyway, with or without hard work.

Sad to say but in international context and in many societal aspects, Thailand has become the hub of ineptitude.

I'd point out that this is, in fact, quite a common practice worldwide. It is NOTHING TO DO with "saving face", although it IS about brand imaging.

But doing so would pee on the parade of the Thai bashers who are having their best day for a while, so I'll keep quiet and let them have their fun...

If its such a common practice, why has almost every media outlet in the world made an item out of it? Call me and the other 6 billion earthlings Thai bashers any day!

Quite strange that the 2 'quality' English newspapers have hardly picked up on this , while foreign media have.

Correction, as of 9:00 am one the 2 'quality' newspaper made it a headline. The only reporter of this newspaper must have woken up and arrived at the office..

When classes are being cancelled so that students can learn how to receive achievement awards, and when classes are cancelled for all things considered being part of 'Thainess', and when grades are manipulated and do not reflect students learning, I think that the dear people at the Education Ministry will have to accept their international position of rock bottom.

The only solution is to decriminalize drugs! Lets just face the facts, drugs are so delicious that throughout the history both men and animals used mind altering substances.

Lets turn abuse in use, or treatment. Educate and regulate , garantee quality. So what is a few percent of us cant handle this freedom. The costs for society are much higher when drugs would stay illegal.

Here in Chiang Rai there are farmers who are not willing to eat their own crops! I wonder why!

Largely because local folks prefer to eat sticky rice and much of the rice grown here is good quality Jasmine rice.

Much isn't, that's why some farmers in our village claim not to eat it.

Here in Chiang Rai there are farmers who are not willing to eat their own crops! I wonder why!

I also find it rather easy to get a marriage visa, and never had any problems in the process. Courtesey and even fun with the immigration officers visiting us to check our whereabouts. The only catch is the 400k in the bank that becomes useless, as you'll need it the next year again. I can only hope the rules will stay as they are.

My experience in Thai schools is that at least 25% of the classes are cancelled without warning or prior planning, and that at least 40% of the classes that do take places are wasted with things that have nothing to do with learning. Add the noise levels at schools (it so great to organize sport events next to the classrooms), the extraordinary list of ceremonial activities (I love the one where kids are being pulled out of the classes to practice how to receive awards), boy scouting marches with accompanying drums/bongos, very sugary and unhealthy snacks (hyper), no fail policies, and so on..................... The list of disturbances is endless. Thai education will never reach an international level as long as learning just doesn't take place. It's that simple. I feel sincerely sorry for my students as they are wasting their young minds with mindless and utter irrelevant matters.

Mark these words - Rice will never go below 15'000 Baht. Now the government has buckled, the farmers have learned that they hold the keys to office and all they need to do is the same again, in a similar situation and the government will be forced into relenting or risk alienating their entire support base.

It will, right after the next election!