my question,

are thai teachers allowed to smoke and drink while teaching, i think not

for the last few weeks my thai lady's son has been talking about a teacher smoking while teaching,

but last week his mother went to the school to hand in a letter from a hospital dr to let the teacher know why her son had not been to school for 9 days,, he was in hospital [ he has a terminal illness ]

the teacher gave her son a job,, cleaning the school garden as punishment the next day for not handing in some school work,,

while my thai lady was talking to the teacher she noticed he was drinking and was drunk,, in school hrs ...

she was the wife of a very well known police officer before he got killed going to work on his motorbike , and the teacher knows this and knows who she is,

so he put the whisky down, while she was their,

i can name the school and can name the teacher, what should i do, all the pupils talk about this teacher, and other teachers do nothing about it

regards M

Let her handle it

You could move your step-son to another school.

Public sector employees who have reached a certain level are untouchable. I have come across drunks in many Thai govt depts in my work here. Often they are drunk when they turn up in the morning. Other workers turn a blind eye. Their superiors just sideline them. I agree though, in the case of a teacher, he should not be dealing with children.

I assume you are a farang. I assume that you do not have any high level connections in the local education dept. If you try to interfere, you will just be ignored. Let the Thais handle it. Remove your stepson from the school if you are concerned 'cos that teacher will be staying.

"My Thai lady" = my wife?

Smoking at a school is illegal and carries a fine of up to 2,000 baht. Otherwise, government employees are almost untouchable. Also in part because the school will not want to make a big fuss. if you take it up, the teacher will probalby be temporarly assinged at the area educational office and after some time return.

I had a teacher "retire early" after taking a pic of him with his hands up a p2 boy´s thighs. They are not as untouchable as you think.

Yes, the directly begged me to delete the pic. So I did, after uploading to Dropbox. A C.Y.A. just in case .

first thanks for the replies

its not that easy to just move the child to another school, its up country and he is 14, very bright, but terminally ill and misses school regularly

[ today he visited khonkaen hospital because Roiet just arnt up to date on his illness,]

the school is 50ks east from roiet in the country and the future wife wont leave the area or her family support,

yes im farang, thai lady = soon to be wife

regards mick

I had a teacher "retire early" after taking a pic of him with his hands up a p2 boy´s thighs. They are not as untouchable as you think.

Yes, the directly begged me to delete the pic. So I did, after uploading to Dropbox. A C.Y.A. just in case .

Why didn't you report him to the police ?