Is it better to educate a half thai half farang in Thailand or in the west?

[richard_smith237]

36 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

but at least he's avoided the violence rife in the UK schools.

Make sure he doest go to a Tech college....   Maids son is in Hospitail after being stabbed and slashed across the forehead by gangs (I don't expect he was wholly innocent either)....

...  the Thai news is full of the violence in Thai schools and colleges here...

 

Edit - not 'in the schools'... but outside the school gates...

 

Edited October 2, 2023 by richard_smith237

[FruitPudding]

1 hour ago, richard_smith237 said:

Anecdotes & experience varies of course...  a long time ago in a galaxy far far away none of those issues really existed in the school I was at (a normal comprehensive), none of my Uni mates ever mentioned bullying or the horrible 'stuff' we hear of today.

 

My Nephews and Nieces don't have much to say on such issues either...  many friends in the UK also don't mention any such issues... bullying, beatings, drugs...  

 

I think the drugs thing is there... nephews mention there is a bit of dope about, but that seems about it. There are also 'county lines' (an organised drugs trafficking through the UK) is also a problem for those kids who could get 'dragged in'... 

 

An average kid in a Thai Government School is not going to do as well as an Average kid in a British Comprehensive school...  a high achiever will do well anywhere, but a high achiever will do better in the UK as there are better resources. 

 

If you are going to discuss bulling and beatings etc... look at all the Tech colleges here...

Okay....????

 

Did you say you were a teacher?

 

 

Edited October 2, 2023 by FruitPudding

[richard_smith237]

12 minutes ago, FruitPudding said:

Okay....????

 

Did you say you were a teacher?

What on earth would give you that assumption ?

 

 

 

[FruitPudding]

1 minute ago, richard_smith237 said:

What on earth would give you that assumption ?

 

 

 

The joke went write over your head. Haha. Nevermind.

[Kinok Farang]

I like this lass and the English from the North East are tops but it's scary how the femininity is lacking compared to all her cousin's over here.

[Neeranam]

6 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

The most sought after schools in Thailand 'used to be' the Triam Udom Suksa schools.

St. Joseph's Convent used to be sought after, God knows why. I worked there. 

I also worked at Triam Udom near Hua Lamphong Station for a short time. 

 

[soi3eddie]

On 9/14/2023 at 9:46 AM, scubascuba3 said:

It's got to be the west, then come back to Thailand with much better education than locals, remember the best doctors and specialists are trained abroad

Exactly. We know why Asians spend fortunes to send their children to international schools or schools and colleges in the west.

 

[GinBoy2]

23 hours ago, phetphet said:

We did it slightly differently. I spoke English, told mother to speak only Thai, but she tended to use only English. Though the daughter went to Thai nursery school so picked up some Thai.

 

At six enrolled in a French international school, so all lessons in French except English obviously. Also have a Thai teacher comes to house for two hours/week.

 

Now speaks both English and French like a native, and just started Spanish. . Can speak Thai, but definitely needs more work.

 

 

You gotta be pretty diligent only speaking certain languages at one time.

 

I don't know if you speak Thai, but since I do there was no need for Mrs G to speak in English to me when she was talking around our son, so we were both pretty discipled about that for the language forming years

[cooked]

In a previous life I would speak German to my Swiss wife, she would reply in English. This is the way engineers do it when dealing with international partners. Without realising it, this affects the children that are passively listening, and learning. I remember coming home and moaning "where are my bloody slippers?" and my three year old went to get them. 

The worst example I saw was the brother-in-law, family real Swiss German farming stock, with his kids they decided to speak French and a pretty f**ed up version of French it was too. So they were deprived of the usage of their mother tongue, Swiss German. Result: both kids grew up with a communications impediment, due, as far as I can see, to this. Bil;ingual kids tend to start speaking later. My two sons grew up trilingual with a smattering of Spanish and Italian thrown in for good measure. 

 

[richard_smith237]

On 10/2/2023 at 4:43 PM, FruitPudding said:

On 10/2/2023 at 4:40 PM, richard_smith237 said:

What on earth would give you that assumption ?

The joke went write over your head. Haha. Nevermind.

Erm...  going gramma nazi is a joke ??

 

Is Fruit pudding the same as Fruit-Cake ?? quite apt.

 

[FruitPudding]

1 hour ago, richard_smith237 said:

Erm...  going gramma nazi is a joke ??

 

Is Fruit pudding the same as Fruit-Cake ?? quite apt.

 

You're cracking me up so much right now. Lol. Please stop. My face hurts from laughing. 

[GinBoy2]

6 hours ago, cooked said:

In a previous life I would speak German to my Swiss wife, she would reply in English. This is the way engineers do it when dealing with international partners. Without realising it, this affects the children that are passively listening, and learning. I remember coming home and moaning "where are my bloody slippers?" and my three year old went to get them. 

The worst example I saw was the brother-in-law, family real Swiss German farming stock, with his kids they decided to speak French and a pretty f**ed up version of French it was too. So they were deprived of the usage of their mother tongue, Swiss German. Result: both kids grew up with a communications impediment, due, as far as I can see, to this. Bil;ingual kids tend to start speaking later. My two sons grew up trilingual with a smattering of Spanish and Italian thrown in for good measure. 

 

Yeah your Brother in Law is exactly how you shouldn't do it.

 

The learning to talk timeline is hard. 

 

Our son when he started to talk, it was a word soup of all languages he was being exposed to.

 

Not sure how the brain figures it out but somehow it does.

 

My brain can be thinking in English, but if I'm talking to a Spanish speaker it just comes out Spanish!

 

Way above my pay grade to try to figure it out, I'm sure many a scientific paper has been written on the subject