New Immigration Rules for Teachers?

[Ajahnski]

I can understand your frustration. But it is always said that: "If you are in Rome, do as the Romans do". Most of the problems that we are facing now have been created by some of these very unscrupulous teachers. Most of them are here with fake papers here and there. Some of them even go as far as faking the TOEIC (Testing Of English for International Communication). When they do things like these and they are discovered, why will they not scrutinize every paper or degree that are presented to them? Why will they not tighten the rules or bring in new ones? Kurusapa is asking from teachers who are coming for the second 2 year teaching permit to contact their universities to get a confirmation letter send to Kurusapa well ahead of time before their coming to get the second 2 year teaching permit. This was not applicable before. But since any Tom, Dick, Jack or Harry can get anything in the name of a degree in English and present to them (and they have started discovering this) why will they not make things tough? I even still feel that they are not very strict. If they were then many of these so call teachers will be in prison. If you leave, what will that change? Of course there are guys out there who will work even for a lower salary. They can replace you with ease. If you have all your papers ready and genuine, you will not have any problems with the Thai authority.

What we are seeing in the field is the opposite. There are too few teachers, and WAY too few with legit degrees. We see this as teachers, and have been told this by our admin. Yet immigration keeps making problems. The only ones willing to work for a lower salary are unqualified to begin with.

Further, teachers with fake degrees going to prison? Do you even know what those words mean? If a fake gets caught, they get deported. Why would Thailand waste judicial and penal resources when they can just make them leave.

Lastly, I do have papers ready, and they are genuine. That does not change the fact that immigration appears to be making up rules on their own. If you want to be a shill for Thai corruption, please go find another blog.