50,000 baht fund set aside to help two teachers who have not been paid for five months

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50,000 baht fund set aside to help two teachers who have not been paid for five months

By Thai PBS

 

 

The Office of the National Primary Education Commission has set aside a 50,000 baht fund to be paid to two Umphang district’s assistant teachers who have not been paid for the past five months since they started teaching.

 

The two assistant teachers, Ms Wanalee Toonmark and Ms Nirawan Chuaboonmee, were also told by the Tak provincial education committee that they would lose their teaching jobs because the committee disapproved their switch of teaching job from social science to mathematics.

 

The plight of the two assistant teachers which was first exposed in the social media went viral with many netizens expressing sympathy for them and, at the same time, criticizing the Education Ministry.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/50000-baht-fund-set-aside-help-two-teachers-not-paid-five-months/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2017-11-06

[kotsak]

Submarines.. priorities.. 

[doremifasol]

5 months? Disgraceful 

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[otherstuff1957]

50,000 baht?  Two people, five months...  that comes to 5,000 baht per month!

 

This doesn't surprise me though.  The problems with education in Thailand mostly come from the top down. 

[RBOP]

I use to work for a company like this. Always late on paying salaries.

[anon789561]

5 months is taking the piss. well i guess they are getting paid though. finally

[worgeordie]

Why set up a fund, just pay the teachers, now this has come to light

looks like the Education committee ,is going to give them the sack,

revenge for losing face,they are the ones who should be sacked.

regards worgeordie

[connda]

Mathematics?  What child needs mathematics?  Children need constant social indoctrination.  Unquestioned compliance toward authority figures is much, much more important as well as having a society of unthinking, compliant clones. 
India, China, and Korea will pick up the slack in the math department while Thailand creates bureaucrats and politicians.  Then the Thai governmental elite can buy those products produced by India, China, and Korea engineers. 
All other socially compliant but otherwise uneducated Thais clones?  Let them eat rice.  

[gjoo888]

6 hours ago, RBOP said:

I use to work for a company like this. Always late on paying salaries.

Me too.

[Briggsy]

Look at the photo. It could win an award. There is so much in there.

 

Senior civil servant out in the boonies (short, fat, ethnic Chinese mix) berates and glares at two younger female junior employees who have been deemed to have rocked the boat in some way. He is backed by his "driver" (read rent-a-thug, overweight, pugnacious-looking, ethnic Thai, decked in bling) in obligatory safari suit.

 

The two young women know they are powerless in this situation and adopt submissive posture (hands in lap, gob shut, head bowed slightly). Behind them and over them, matron-like, stand the senior teaching staff, smug in the knowledge that these two little upstarts are getting their comeuppance, smug in the knowledge that they are safe in their C5, C6, C7 civil service positions, smug in the knowledge they have played the game for years, know how it works and gained as a result.

 

The press are present! Only in Thailand would press photographers be present at such a meeting. This is HR. These employees have not been paid. There are potential disciplinary issues. The presence of a press photographer shows he/they was/were invited by the bigshot to show everything is as it should be, the government is in charge and there is nothing more to see here.

 

Priceless, you could frame that photo. A picture paints a thousand words.

 

 

[Billy Bloggs]

When I went to school(many many moons ago) set aside meant you aint getting anything, so they get nothing for 5 months work and sacked as well, yep the idiots really are running the asylum.

 

Maybe thats why most companies in this country treat their employees like slaves, especially 7/11's and Top supermarkets, where my step daughter was treated terribly. Thankfully she has now found employment where she is treated well.

[madusa]

On 11/6/2017 at 10:13 AM, Happy enough said:

5 months is taking the piss. well i guess they are getting paid though. finally

You may be Happy enough. But someone took the cream off their salaries. Five months & 50,000 for 2 ? Is this a joke or what?

[anon537687643]

Only a Thai mug would be a teacher in Gov school! So consequently look who’s teaching!


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[samsensam]

17 minutes ago, markaoffy said:

Only a Thai mug would be a teacher in Gov school! So consequently look who’s teaching!


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of someone who is unqualified and/or inexperienced and/or simply not a very good teacher, and therefore unable to get a decent job with a reputable and professional employer.

[DavisH]

51 minutes ago, madusa said:

You may be Happy enough. But someone took the cream off their salaries. Five months & 50,000 for 2 ? Is this a joke or what?

They are young assistant teachers. So they probably don't have degrees which means no minimum 15K a month for them. I would say they are at the mercy of the schools and probably made to feel grateful they have a job at all. The least they could do is pay them their pittance on time!

[anon537687643]

20 minutes ago, samsensam said:

 

of someone who is unqualified and/or inexperienced and/or simply not a very good teacher, and therefore unable to get a decent job with a reputable and professional employer.

No! Qualified teachers are Paid and  treated pretty appallingly1

[NanLaew]

On 11/6/2017 at 3:21 PM, Briggsy said:

Look at the photo. It could win an award. There is so much in there.

 

Senior civil servant out in the boonies (short, fat, ethnic Chinese mix) berates and glares at two younger female junior employees who have been deemed to have rocked the boat in some way. He is backed by his "driver" (read rent-a-thug, overweight, pugnacious-looking, ethnic Thai, decked in bling) in obligatory safari suit.

 

The two young women know they are powerless in this situation and adopt submissive posture (hands in lap, gob shut, head bowed slightly). Behind them and over them, matron-like, stand the senior teaching staff, smug in the knowledge that these two little upstarts are getting their comeuppance, smug in the knowledge that they are safe in their C5, C6, C7 civil service positions, smug in the knowledge they have played the game for years, know how it works and gained as a result.

 

The press are present! Only in Thailand would press photographers be present at such a meeting. This is HR. These employees have not been paid. There are potential disciplinary issues. The presence of a press photographer shows he/they was/were invited by the bigshot to show everything is as it should be, the government is in charge and there is nothing more to see here.

 

Priceless, you could frame that photo. A picture paints a thousand words.

 

 

As always Briggsy, you're right on the money with that [insightful, scathing opinion on Thailand's cultural foibles laid bare] review of photographic composition.

 

PS: Some bright spark at TV's web-mangling department appears to have removed the ever so handy strike-through font option!!!!

[JAG]

No! Qualified teachers are Paid and  treated pretty appallingly1

Teachers in government schools are often paid better than those in private schools.

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[anon789561]

5 minutes ago, JAG said:

Teachers in government schools are often paid better than those in private schools.

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farang teachers in decent private schools can be on 100k a month. no government school pays that

[JAG]

55 minutes ago, Happy enough said:

farang teachers in decent private schools can be on 100k a month. no government school pays that

I am sure there are some such fortunate souls. I am talking about Thai teachers, in more "run of the mill' non government schools, away from Bangkok. In such schools starting salaries can be around 12k a month. Unlike teachers in government schools there is little job security, lower salaries and often no pension scheme. There again, they don't usually have to "buy" the job.

[JAG]

15 hours ago, markaoffy said:

Only a Thai mug would be a teacher in Gov school! So consequently look who’s teaching!


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15 hours ago, samsensam said:

 

of someone who is unqualified and/or inexperienced and/or simply not a very good teacher, and therefore unable to get a decent job with a reputable and professional employer.

Actually I think you will find that posts in government schools are very much sought after. They are better paid, and as civil servants you have job security, and many fringe benefits such as a pension scheme.

Of course you often have to make "an investment" to get the job ( maybe this is where these two came unstuck) but the jobs do carry a lot of status.

You also get to wear a smart paramilitary uniform on Mondays, dress whites on big occasions, and from casual observation, many have the opportunity to undertake parachute training as well!

None of which obviously has any bearing on their ability as a teacher of course!

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