Topic: 25 Questions

[Pibthong]

   Well, okay, but let's keep making posts such as bomha and Geekboy have on this and other threads--posts that speak directly to Thai parents as well as to Thai owners/managers in education in Thailand.

   Thai parents are the best route to positive change in Thai schools. I've spoken with many Thai parents who want their children educated in the Western way and who think the school where they've enrolled their children is doing that when, in fact, the school is doing the opposite. I think in the West we call such a school a fraud.

   We need to speak more directly and more often to Thai parents now that Thai parents read TeflWatch regularly and in increasing numbers.

[ajarnnormal]

Good thinking P. There are many Thai parents who are capable of voicing a opinion and I for one would like to hear from them.

[Hooded_Claw]

British Council, Siam Square.  A Canadian mate of mine had his verified there - no problems at all!

I worked at the BC Siam Square for five years. As far as I'm aware they have no power to verify documents.


I can't think of any reason why documentation would be verified by anyone other than the issuing body.

[ajarnnormal]

There was a time when MOE asked some teachers to go to the Britsh Consulate. That was a farce, all they did was to verify that the document was presented to them in it's original form. Which did not verify the document itself as original and this cost 1500 baht. They accepted this for sometime.

[hero]

Upon contacting my former colleague - it turns out that he had a photocopy countersigned as verification that it did indeed come from an original authentic document at the British Council.  It was accepted by the school (although he's not sure if it got MoE approval because he didn't go through with his TL application at the time, he moved schools).  Sorry if I was misleading anyone - I have never used the service myself!

There seems to be some confusion, there is no British Consulate in Bangkok - consular services are provided by the British Embassy!  Ajarnnormal - are you sure you mean British Consulate?  There is one in Chiang Mai

[bomha]

Yo Pibby, great idea for a thread, but I doubt we would last longer than a $5 dollar bill on the pavement in Compton before some flooser got on here knocking other teachers in that kind of thread.

'Ola, Andy, but if we make the rules as the moderators and administrator, we can say that off-topic posts and teacher-knocking posts get deleted, so the only posts on that thread are for advice to Thai parents.

[ajarnnormal]

Yea. Sorry I did mean British Embassy.

[Pibthong]

   I would like to invite Thai parents to know that they'd have a specific thread at TeflWatch where they could read and hopefully post. There's possibility of abuse in this as there is in all else, but isn't that what mods and the Admis are for? 

[ajarnnormal]

Maybe so but I think it will be worth while. When I was at another school for a year I posted a thread about the school Bodin 1. Two parents saw the thread and put their thoughts on the school. I hope that this is a success. I don't think there is going to be too much abuse as I think that if they can read and understand what is written at least they have an education. I can not think of one Thai parent I have met that has been abusive to me but they have had words to say about schools. I think this could be an ace up your sleeves. Also it may bring out some true feelings about their childs education.