Kajonkiet Suksa School In Phuket

[seppl04]

I am a bit worried. I tried to get on the website of Kajonkiet school www.kajonkiet.com

and all I get is a first page of what seems to be a xxx site.

Even more disturbing is, that the school is mentioned there and links are provided, however they don't work.

Does anybody have real experience with sending kids to that school (english program) ?

thinking of sending my little daughters there during this year in K1

Is there a real website for this school ?

all comments of other parents are highly appreciated

Thanks

Seppl

[seonai]

Hi Seppl you might be better posting this in Family and Children but you may also get responses here. I have met several English language teachers who have taught at that school and a lot of it was good but there were issues over the teachers being not united apparently.

[phuketsub]

I am a bit worried. I tried to get on the website of Kajonkiet school www.kajonkiet.com

and all I get is a first page of what seems to be a xxx site.

Even more disturbing is, that the school is mentioned there and links are provided, however they don't work.

Does anybody have real experience with sending kids to that school (english program) ?

thinking of sending my little daughters there during this year in K1

Is there a real website for this school ?

all comments of other parents are highly appreciated

Thanks

Seppl

You can find the real website here: http://www.kajonkietsuksa.ac.th/en/mainframe.html

The school just invested about 250 million baht to build a new wing and other facilities. I can say for a fact that the management is committed to excellence, but in their efforts to accomplish it they tend to terribly overwork their staff...meetings at 6:30 am on Monday mornings and until 9 pm are not at all uncommon for the Thai teachers.

The biggest problem is teacher turnover. For the native English speakers, much of it is because they hire 'tourist teachers', who are never really committed to staying on long term. Of course, this is a problem throughout Thailand, but it seems to be particularly keen at this school.

There is also a fair bit of resentment among some of the Thai staff towards their foreign counterparts, who they (correctly) perceive as getting paid more for doing less.

Overall I would say the vast majority of kids that go there are nice and well-behaved. You could do a lot worse in this price range...

You should look back through the old threads for more info. One regular poster, Somtumification, seems to know a lot about the relative merits of various schools on the island...best of luck

[steelepulse]

I am a bit worried. I tried to get on the website of Kajonkiet school www.kajonkiet.com

and all I get is a first page of what seems to be a xxx site.

Even more disturbing is, that the school is mentioned there and links are provided, however they don't work.

Does anybody have real experience with sending kids to that school (english program) ?

thinking of sending my little daughters there during this year in K1

Is there a real website for this school ?

all comments of other parents are highly appreciated

Thanks

Seppl

You can find the real website here: http://www.kajonkietsuksa.ac.th/en/mainframe.html

The school just invested about 250 million baht to build a new wing and other facilities. I can say for a fact that the management is committed to excellence, but in their efforts to accomplish it they tend to terribly overwork their staff...meetings at 6:30 am on Monday mornings and until 9 pm are not at all uncommon for the Thai teachers.

The biggest problem is teacher turnover. For the native English speakers, much of it is because they hire 'tourist teachers', who are never really committed to staying on long term. Of course, this is a problem throughout Thailand, but it seems to be particularly keen at this school.

There is also a fair bit of resentment among some of the Thai staff towards their foreign counterparts, who they (correctly) perceive as getting paid more for doing less.

Overall I would say the vast majority of kids that go there are nice and well-behaved. You could do a lot worse in this price range...

You should look back through the old threads for more info. One regular poster, Somtumification, seems to know a lot about the relative merits of various schools on the island...best of luck

My daughter beens going there for the k classes for two years and she's been happy and she's been learning.  I've seen the same teachers there for the two years for these younger aged kids.

In regards to that first url the op posted, that is just a domain parked page where he is hoping to get some direct type in traffic, and since you found it via a direct type-in, it worked, and if you clicked on any of the links on that page, he got paid a little bit for your click.  

[Somtamnication]

Thanks Sub....

I would advise the original poster to do a search and up will come many posts about them and some lengthy ones written by myself and others.

Seonai is also correct in what she wrote. Phuketsub is also spot on. Not much to add other than what I already wrote.

On a secondary note.... three of my students are taking entrance exams for the Phuket Viyatalai EP and Satree schools. Both of which are quite good schools. In taking their test prep courses, they found out that P6 math and science is way behind (too easy, their words) at Kajonkiet. They may very well fail the entrance tests with horrible math and science tests but brilliant English scores.

Fees for M1 (next term) have almost doubled to 75000 per term, up from 45000 for P level student fees.

Turn over (okay, cannot stop typing now) is very very high. Some with fake degrees at the school and there is animosity between the South Africans (long term teachers) and any non SA teachers.

Newbies do not last due to the excessive pecking order given out by these people and incredible work hours, for 35000 a month.

Excessive amounts of candy and all sweet things are sold in the school. Miniature toys are bought by the ton by these young kids, with no safety or health foresight at all.

Other than that, it is a great school.

[makavelithedon]

These kinds of questions about schooling come up alot and it's more about the limited alternatives really. I often read negative comments from newbies on limited choices but they seem to forget that Phuket did not originate to serve the schooling needs of a small amount of foreigners who decide to set up home here.

The island has enough choice to serve the needs of the 99.9% Thai majority most of whom don't put much importance in education and have strange ideas on what consitutes parenting shall we say.

As for foreign kids with parents of average means Kajonkiet is probably about it at primary level. I think they do a fairish job in educating if not in how staff are treated (listening to my friends both Thai and Farang) who have worked there in the recent past, but even if they didn't, again what alternative do you have?

The true international school if you can afford the international school fees for the richest of the rich or Darasumut's EP programme which I think is probably preferable all round if it was my kid. I just prefer the atmosphere and school ethos etc. They also imo based on what I have seen, have more dedicated and manageable staffing and numbers being a lot smaller in the programme than that of Kajonkiet.

If you expect the earth in what is an alien environment on the whole, then consider paying it at BIS or moving else where. Other than that it's be realistic to what is available and don't expect to dump your kids off (as so many parents do all over the world) and expect the school to be parent,magician,educator and moral councellor until there 18 and then shock/horror don't turn out how you'd like!

Mak.