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[Rolo Tomazi]

Whatever you decide to do, don't forget this is Thailand, and you as a foreign teacher at a Thai school are very low in the food chain.

If you try to force the school admin by telling them you won't work if this or that doesn't happen, no matter if it is in the contract or not, you are rebelling and that's reason enough to fire you. The only foreign teachers I met who had some influence were teachers who worked at their schools for years and were respected; if it hurts when they lose you, they think about it twice, but even then they may fire you. The agency is obligated by contract to provide teachers, so firing one or two uppity farangs who don't know their place and don't show respect (meaning accepting whatever they decide) is no big deal. Even if the agency can't provide another teacher next Monday life goes on without a teacher.

You are supposed to do your job; even most good ideas get shot down because it was you who had them. If you complain, criticize or demand, your on the way out.

My advice: start talking to teachers of other schools, find out how happy they are, what the conditions are, then try to get a job there.

[Norrad]

Do you work at the school where, if you walk onto the basketball court and look to the left, you can see a large building with a dragon wrapped around it?

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