Topic: Scary Story

[sabai_sabai]

I've never worked at a school that put a work permit in every teacher's hands before they stepped into the building to teach.  At best, I've had a WP within 30 days, at worst, it was closer to 90 days.  Plenty of teachers get the, "soon..." excuse when they ask for their WPs and that's unacceptable, I agree.  I'd guess that these schools are more the rule than the exception.  Perhaps a list of schools that do provide WPs for teachers on the first day a teacher starts belongs in the Good Vibes Lounge. My guess is that will be a very short list.

[sabai_sabai]

I guess that begs the next question.....when has a school been raided for no apparent reason?  I've never heard of it, a raid,in my experience, follows a complaint.

Four schools last September were raided (and there are rumors of a few others that may or may not have been) all the raids were before the coup, within the same three week period.  I'm not sure if it's possible to know if all of these schools raided in a short period were following up complaints or not.  The amount that went on in such a short period could have been because of the worries about foreign teachers after JMK, a really interesting coincidence of four seperate complaints or after the first was raided the potential for tea money was realized.

BTW, teachers had their documents checked after the raids.  Teachers that were legal according to the Thai system did not have any other problems except for having to provide some extra paperwork proving they had degrees.  Other teachers (with real degrees) that had their paperwork in the process of being done had various things happen to them ranging from paying a fine to appearing in court.

[Mods-Rockers]

I've never worked at a school that put a work permit in every teacher's hands before they stepped into the building to teach.  At best, I've had a WP within 30 days, at worst, it was closer to 90 days.  Plenty of teachers get the, "soon..." excuse when they ask for their WPs and that's unacceptable, I agree.  I'd guess that these schools are more the rule than the exception.  Perhaps a list of schools that do provide WPs for teachers on the first day a teacher starts belongs in the Good Vibes Lounge. My guess is that will be a very short list.

Strangely the stumbling block for most schools is the Teachers license, the initial visa is not a problem, but a WP cannot be issued without a TL. That’s one of the joys of working in higher education I guess. University teachers don’t need a TL and thus the process is far simplified. My best was 24 hours worst 2 weeks in Uni’s however where the TL was needed, i.e. matayom or prathom my worst was a little over 10 weeks. I reckon that’s another good reason for teaching the older kids!

[bomha]

Childish insults have been totally removed.  Behave like adults, please.

[Nemesis]

I removed a lot of posts, this thread is about warning teachers, not a thread about fighting. We're all in this together and information helps us all. 

[7baht]

Being hauled off by immigration for fake papers isnt all there is to think about or have you guys not been faced with the famous police report stating you made threats to a school owner  hahahahaha all i said was  "well its back on the black list @TEFLWATCH for you "

7baht