Thread: Immigration & MoE Crackdown on Teachers To Continue

Originally Posted by soijetcornergirl

This convinced us of the need to be more strict in checking teachers’ qualifications.

Gen Suwat admitted that it is difficult to ascertain a person’s sexual proclivities though such checks,

No General. The word you're looking for is "impossible" not "difficult"

Not impossible...if they have a conviction for the stuff......

Soijet, no need to post it because just around the corner, all of the officials making these decisions are going to lose face and allow the very unqualifed teachers they are trying to get ride of right now. Users here have it on very good word that the officials are willing to lose face and allow anyone who can come up with $800 to get in front of the classroom and teach the students. Nevermind if they are a high school dropout or not.

Originally Posted by soijetcornergirl

He was deported under personal escort by Gen Suwat, who told reporters in the US that he sang the Bee Gees song Words to Karr to lift his spirits during the trip stateside.

Absolutely unbelieveable.

A police Leiutenant General in charge of immigration and has just announced a crackdown on "sexual deviants" sings Words while flying in first class to USA to another man who, as far as anyone was concerned at the time, was a confessed child molester/murderer!



And people wonder why we love living here?

Every day certainly offers something different!

Brilliant!

Originally Posted by soijetcornergirl

He was deported under personal escort by Gen Suwat, who told reporters in the US that he sang the Bee Gees song Words to Karr to lift his spirits during the trip stateside.

Thought it would have been "Hotel California."

^ This has always been my main question regarding "cracking down" As i mentioned on a previous thread a while back when I renewed my stuff late last year (after the supposed new regulations came into force regarding degree checking ) it was the same as every other year. No different. I think I bugged the shit out of my admin dept by constantly asking them "Do you want me to contact my old uni?"
A friend of mine renewed his stuff about 10 days ago and he went throught the same thing as me. No checks-nothing.

IMHO they're either going to randomly check existing teachers, put the onus on the schools to "guarantee' their teachers (like large language centres) or hit schools who are known to be "dodgy"

I thought he sang "Return to Sender"....

Originally Posted by Whitey

Soijet, no need to post it because just around the corner, all of the officials making these decisions are going to lose face and allow the very unqualifed teachers they are trying to get ride of right now. Users here have it on very good word that the officials are willing to lose face and allow anyone who can come up with $800 to get in front of the classroom and teach the students. Nevermind if they are a high school dropout or not.

But remember the head of LOS immi sang a Bee Gees song to a potential murderer.

Thailand is The Twilight Zone. I'll believe anything of this place!

Originally Posted by Polar_chimp

So they have decided there is a definate link between the non degree holding teachers and sexual deviants targeting children. Two completely separate issues. Of course the screening of criminal records (most of the nonces have some kind of 'form' already, although should still be rotting) but how the hell do they intend to catch sexual predators based on the suspect holding or not holding a fake degree, online degree (valid or not)

What I see now is that no new teachers are applying to our school that are going to attempt to be "papered up". The majority of the teachers are not going to put themselves to the fire when they don't need to worry about it if they just do visa runs.

The point of saying all of these checks are going to change anything is ridiculous, when there is no problem for the completely unchecked.

I thought John Karr was acquitted in any case...on the child pornography charges too I mean?

Originally Posted by keeshou

What I see now is that no new teachers are applying to our school that are going to attempt to be "papered up". The majority of the teachers are not going to put themselves to the fire when they don't need to worry about it if they just do visa runs.

The point of saying all of these checks are going to change anything is ridiculous, when there is no problem for the completely unchecked.

So what your saying is your school is only employing teachers who want to sign a contract and gain a work permit? So people are choosing to work illegally for language schools? Do you think the numbers of people who are prepared to work here illegally will increase? I doubt that, the John carr case was such big news world wide, the Thais have to at least be seen to be doing something about the lack of any screening here. Its a fucking discrace its taken this long for them to act. If anybody is working with children, vulnerable people then surely they have to go through the system in order to do so. The qualification thing is a totally different matter.

Anybody who is working here without having been screened (ie a disclosure from their own country) shouldnt be in my opinion, Anybody working with kids should be supporting this idea, no matter how much of an inconvenience (papered up) it might be for them to do so.

I hope those people who avoid being "papered up" as you put it cut their holiday a bit shorter and piss off back to their job in I.T
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Originally Posted by SageAndOnion

I thought John Karr was acquitted in any case...on the child pornography charges too I mean?

Was he? well it doesnt really make any difference does it? he was not really a suitable primary school teacher. Did he have previous offences? No question about it teachers in thailand, farang and Thai need to be checked.