Thai student helps foreign English teacher after bike accident

 

Image: TNews

 

Thais online praised a high school student pictured helping a Westerner in distress after a motorcycle accident.

 

TNews quoted a poster on Facebook who said that they were travelling in the Ban Nong Bua area when they saw a motorcycle on its side and a Thai boy in school uniform cradling a foreigner in his arms.

 

Medics were called and the poster asked the boy - Akkradech Aksorn -  what had happened.

 

He said that the man is an English teacher at his school - Jaturachada School - where he studies. The teacher was giving him a lift to school on Friday morning when he seemed to suffer a seizure and lose control of the bike crashing by the side of the road.

 

Akkradech would not leave his teacher waiting until help arrived.

 

The pictures ended up on the page of Jao Phor Clip Det. 

 

No other details were reported and the condition of the accident victim is not known at this time.

 

 

 

 

Source: TNews

 

 

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Someone give him medal.

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Good for him-well done, and,yes,I would certainly  commend him.

 

Anyone (of whatever nationality) is a good Samaritan in my view..if they stop and render assistance to others,.

 

What say you?

7 hours ago, Odysseus123 said:

Good for him-well done, and,yes,I would certainly  commend him.

 

Anyone (of whatever nationality) is a good Samaritan in my view..if they stop and render assistance to others,.

 

What say you?

I 100% agree with you. 

 

It reminds me of an accident in Korat a few years ago. I was the ONLY person who assisted the injured guy on the side of the road. When I looked up, I saw 15 - 20 adults standing there looking at us holding their <deleted> phones recording/photographing the whole thing. Me trying to comfort him in my broken Thai... I've never been so disgusted with the human race as I was that day. 

 

10 out of 10 to that young school boy. 

The Student boy was a passenger on the bike .

Its not as if he was a passerby who stopped to give assisstance

8 minutes ago, sanemax said:

The Student boy was a passenger on the bike .

Its not as if he was a passerby who stopped to give assisstance

He gave assistance nevertheless... 

14 minutes ago, sanemax said:

The Student boy was a passenger on the bike .

Its not as if he was a passerby who stopped to give assisstance

Exactly. Unfortunately, I can all too clearly picture dozens of cars and motorbikes passing the scene without anyone bothering to stop and help. We see it everyday in news videos.

 

While the boy certainly deserves a commendation, it is a sad statement for the country of Thailand that a story like this makes the news at all. 

In other breaking news person helps another person who came into difficulty whilst travelling in the same <deleted> vehicle. Only in this country would the fact that a local helped a foreigner make front page news. Posters that suggest he need some sort of acknowledgement for not only helping the person he was travelling with but his teacher as well have been here far too long. " wouldn't leave his teacher tI'll after help arrived" woo <deleted> hoo big deal. This joint keeps getting better and better 

I guess I am cynical but why is a teacher giving a student a lift to school on his motorcycle. Is this normal here?

19 minutes ago, Henrik Andersen said:

Good boy 

But do the teacher have driver license and work permit?? 

whats that got to do with anything?

5 hours ago, Henrik Andersen said:

Good boy 

But do the teacher have driver license and work permit?? 

More importantly: does the teacher have good health-insurance?

Otherwise he is well <deleted>.

9 minutes ago, kingkenny said:

I guess I am cynical but why is a teacher giving a student a lift to school on his motorcycle. Is this normal here?

Why? You think he gave him some "home-schooling"?

If they live in the same village/street: why not?

1 minute ago, Bullie said:

Why? You think he gave him some "home-schooling"?

If they live in the same village/street: why not?

Each to their own I guess. If you can't see a problem with this then that is up to you.  Personally I would never put myself in that position. 

Teachers in Thailand ? Hardly what I would describe them, unless they have trained in a teaching College or University for many years, and obtained their teaching degree. 

Having said, the country doesn't exactly attract the cream, does it!

 

 

18 minutes ago, the guest said:

Teachers in Thailand ? Hardly what I would describe them, unless they have trained in a teaching College or University for many years, and obtained their teaching degree. 

Having said, the country doesn't exactly attract the cream, does it!

 

 

i don't think that's necessarily true. i know some decent teachers here who have pgce's but obviously there is still a market for not so well trained teachers. they're just there for conversation,, the thais teach the grammar generally. they pay unqualified teachers very little so what would you expect. i taught myself when i first came here. lasted about a month. bloody hated it but some like it so up to them

2 hours ago, Odysseus123 said:

Good for him-well done, and,yes,I would certainly  commend him.

 

Anyone (of whatever nationality) is a good Samaritan in my view..if they stop and render assistance to others,.

 

What say you?

I say actually read the article. The boy was traveling with the teacher, he didn't stop to help him.

 

Nonetheless good of him to stick by his teacher's side.

1 hour ago, thaiguzzi said:

 

Typical empty headed Thai Visa Forum responses among so many. 

Never a good word to say about anything.

Carry on finding fault with anything and everything, Mr Bundle of Joy.

If a person is on a motorbike as a passenger and the bike driver falls off , I do think that the passenger would be expected to take some care of the driver, until help came , that should be expected, rather than commended .

    The second bit was humour.

1 hour ago, kingkenny said:

I guess I am cynical but why is a teacher giving a student a lift to school on his motorcycle. Is this normal here?

It is  unprofessional and a  sackable offense in any developed country.

2 hours ago, the guest said:

Teachers in Thailand ? Hardly what I would describe them, unless they have trained in a teaching College or University for many years, and obtained their teaching degree. 

I think you're confused about what a tefl teacher actually does. If you're working in an international school teaching British or American curriculum in English, then yeah, you would want someone with a PGCE and some experience. Which is exactly what they do have in those schools.

 

If you're teaching tefl in a government school, you are teaching really basic stuff. I doubt you even need a degree at all, epically seeing as a completely unrelated degree is all that is needed. PGCE would be total overkill and most tefl teachers would not need it. I'm not saying it wouldn't make them a better teacher, it's just a lot more than is needed given what they actually teach.

 

You're obviously free to think that every tefl teacher should have a degree in education, a PGCE and several years experience teaching in a Western school, but how helpful that is for someone teaching a class of 50 restless students "what did you do at the weekend?", I'm not sure.

 

Also, there's not much to attract a well qualified teacher to a job that pays a fraction of the wages they could get elsewhere.

 

I'm sure there are some awful tefl teachers, but there are some really good ones as well. I know it's fun for you guys to make out there all hopeless idiots, but they provide a service that benefits the schools and the students.

2 hours ago, kingkenny said:

I guess I am cynical but why is a teacher giving a student a lift to school on his motorcycle. Is this normal here?

Absolutely normal. Teacher-student, student-teacher, teacher-teacher.

 

Teacher is like a second parent in Thailand.

 

Thailand doesn't have the whole "every man is a paedophile until proven otherwise" mentality that many Western countries have. Also people like to help each other out in Thailand.

 

I think that is why people like it here. It's not infected with the "everyone is bad, I'd better screw them over before they screw me over" ethos.

2 hours ago, Bullie said:

If they live in the same village/street: why not?

Because of typical Western mindset. "A man in the presence of a child? Must be a paedophile!" Followed by a knee-jerk reaction of banning any life-enriching activity.

Edited February 24, 20188 yr by BangkokReady

1 hour ago, stubuzz said:

It is  unprofessional and a  sackable offense in any developed country.

Really? So if a teacher is driving to school and he sees a student walking towards the same school and offers them a lift he will be sacked?

3 hours ago, Happy enough said:

whats that got to do with anything?

 fact if no driver license insurance will not cover the cost of treatment if he have insurance and meny come Thailand teaching with out working visa so therefore police will ban him if no have the proper visa so it have everythino to do with this 

28 minutes ago, Henrik Andersen said:

 fact if no driver license insurance will not cover the cost of treatment if he have insurance and meny come Thailand teaching with out working visa so therefore police will ban him if no have the proper visa so it have everythino to do with this 

'Cor blimey.....

 

It is about a young Thai lad who rendered assistance to his teacher...

 

What,exactly,is the problem?

Edited February 24, 20188 yr by Odysseus123

Good. The thing is the majority of people in this world are good. This is simply a good news story and this kind of help happens everyday all over the world. 

3 hours ago, kingkenny said:

Each to their own I guess. If you can't see a problem with this then that is up to you.  Personally I would never put myself in that position. 

If the boy was a friend of the family's or a relative, why not give him a lift?  If he is just a student, absolutely not, as you say 'never'.

27 minutes ago, Henrik Andersen said:

 fact if no driver license insurance will not cover the cost of treatment if he have insurance and meny come Thailand teaching with out working visa so therefore police will ban him if no have the proper visa so it have everythino to do with this 

there was no talk about a hospital bill. hopefully he's covered. was about a kid helping out someone. which is good

I love stories like this, He shows we are all human and caring. When we want to be!

He could do with losing some of that flab :)

Hope he recovers OK, and kudos to the student.

Good lad..!!