Hi, i recently added a post about my interest in becoming an English teacher in Chiang Mai and questions about a problem i had. I received one disturbing email from a Thai lady no longer living in Thailand telling me to be very wary of the high number of false accusations being made against western teachers with the sole purpose of extorting money and based on this advising me to leave and find a teaching job elsewhere. I am by no means questioning what level of child abuse does or does not occurs in Thailand, i am just wanting to ask the question about what was messaged to me from another Thaivisa member and to check the validity of what has been said. I have tried googling this but i didn't find much so i thought it best to ask people i the teaching industry here in Thailand...

5 years teaching in Chiang Mai and of all the people I have met, none have been accused of a thing.

You've been messaged by a fruitcake.

Please remember to teach full stops and paragraphs.

Been teaching for years here. Never heard of such bunk. I did video a Thai teacher with his hands up a P2 boy's shorts and got him fired.

The claims of abuse are usually reserved for "freelancers" aka young women in Pattaya setting up foreigners in underage and other "money" scams after the girl is back in his hotel room. The schools and school children generally don't do this via set ups.

However, corporal punishment is alive and some, especially those from surrounding countries, attempt to copy Thai teachers and spank the kids with bamboo sticks. At my school, even the Thai's have curbed their use of sticks and the one foreigner was told to cease several years ago. A smart phone with a video recorder certainly curbs it as well. Whenever I see these monsters hitting children I start filming and they know they are risking their retirement.

Perhaps those who you refer are talking about corporal punishment and not sexual abuse.

Please remember to teach full stops and paragraphs.

Been teaching for years here. Never heard of such bunk. I did video a Thai teacher with his hands up a P2 boy's shorts and got him fired.

Guess they'd put him into an inactive post somewhere else, like a girls' school......-

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d72_1362619871 this went relatively unpunished and got many likes on Thai website recently

OK, thanks for your replies, that's very encouraging to hear....

Hello!

I'm Thai national and have never heard/seen anything that EVEN resembles an incident like this!

Whom ever wrote you that E-mail is indeed like naboo said a 'Fuit-cake'. Make it a Banana fruit cake with crazy ice-ing sprinkled on top 555+

Even if a false claim of abuse was made by a Thai teacher! She would have to prove when, where, what class/time and get the student to back her story up.

And It's highly unlikely the student will lie for the teacher to get you in trouble.