Thread: TeflWatch.Org

Sponsors don't exactly like to be slagged off on a website they are giving money to.......

......spoilsports :sad:

This site is only going to make things worse. We are respected by nearly all the school over here.

There's one born every minute I guess

We are respected by nearly all the school over here.

More accurately stated, we are used and abused for profit by the schools here with the complicit sanction of the Thai government.

This site is only going to make things worse.

Can't make an omlette without breaking a few heads.

t leads to sourgrapes from teachers who just want to have a go at a school because they were not good enough to build a relationship with the school.

A small price to pay for gaining a public voice.
The schools are contacted and given a right of reply.
No takers on the big threads so far.

Precisely, anybody who actually believes that the problems teachers have at schools are all of their own making is living in an "I'm alright Jack - screw the rest, they must be morons!" kind of dreamworld!

Unfortunately, schools often treat their teachers like shit for reasons like saving a month's holiday pay! Or terminating contracts to get out of paying completion bonus!

Barcaman, you are clearly very happy in your work - you are lucky as am I.


Everybody has the right to post on teflwatch.org, by reading your drivel on this thread it is quite clear that you haven't read the site very carefully. The administration on that site actively and positively encourage school admins to answer any criticism of their schools. The fact that they don't implies to me that they don't have a case.

We are all adults and can draw our own conclusions about schools, TEFLwatch is one place where we can find out any information at all!

Not defending anything mate. Just responding to you slagging off a website you appear not to have spent too much time reading!

I have read it. I agree that teachers need to be heard. My only thought on this website is that it leads to a lot of lies written about schools. I have seen it with products and companies before. you are not stupid and I am sure you know what I am trying to say. Schools will not respond to the comments on this site. Most of them can not read English.

My only thought on this website is that it leads to a lot of lies written about schools.

Well I haven't really seen any of that on the new website (unlike the past versions) - admittedly it can happen, but they seem to be doing a good job over there keeping it sensible and fair.

Schools will not respond to the comments on this site

That's up to them! The idea is that teachers can help each other to be better informed about potential employers. Your notion that all schools are fair and that all problems are caused by teachers is absolute nonsense and applies only to a minority of cases in my experience.

Already, there are reports that one "top Bangkok boys' school"(if you read the teflwatch you'll know) has started to make improvements in its employer/employee relationships by changing some of its teacher unfriendly policies - these weren't caused by teachers, but by incompetent racist administrators flexing their muscles, clearly they thought they could get away with it - believe me they know al about teflwatch and have most certainly read it.

you are not stupid and I am sure you know what I am trying to say

I'm not and I do. That is why I took issue with it, if you choose not to believe what other teachers say then that is up to you. It was apparent in a previous post of yours that you believed that the teflwatch site was somehow unfair - it certainly isn't, absolutely anybody is free to post anything there. Stories without founding peter out and disappear, stories that seem to touch on many people's experiences seem to run and run, schools that get slagged off often get defended by other teachers - I really can't see your problem!

I suspect that this comment sums up your (blinkered) outlook:

There are many more bad teachers out there than are schools.

Good or bad - if schools employ them and then treat them like shit then it's wrong. If teachers breach contracts they should be let go. If schools hire teachers that are crap then that's up to them, it doesn't give them the right to treat them like crap!

You know that it is a teachers market at the moment. you would do more research before you took up a position I'm sure. If someone say's Ford cars are crap, does that mean they are?


Good or bad - if schools employ them and then treat them like doodoo then it's wrong. If teachers breach contracts they should be let go. If schools hire teachers that are crap then that's up to them, it doesn't give them the right to treat them like crap!
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I don't see your point! Teflwatch provides information to teachers - reading it doesn't mean you have to believe it wholesale, as far as I can see it is the only resource available anywhere to find out any information about employers here!

What exactly is your point?

If someone say's Ford cars are crap, does that mean they are?

Absolutely not - I would seek as much info as possible and make my mind up! The more websites the better I'd say!

Like everything else on the web - it's out there, we don't have to believe it!

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You know that it is a teachers market at the moment.

What does that change - schools still pay shit and treat teachers like shit!