Thread: Why Does It Cost So Much To Educate Our Kids Here?

I think Loy Toy is talking more about Thai teachers with regards to poor wages though.

Originally Posted by Redneck

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

Quite possibly my mistake for presuming they were poorly paid. If your figures are accurate I stand correcting.

Funny though! Offered a lovely new 2 bedroom house, fully furnished with all the trimmings, with a pool and 2 minutes drive from the school to an English teacher for 20,000.00 Baht and she laughed.

Love the house and appreciate the offer but do you really think I can afford that type of money on my salary. She is presently trying to buddy up with another female teacher and to jointly rent the house and share the costs.

Hope they do
Pleasant on the eye (one might say) and very welcome in this mooban

Are they lezzers?

They'll probably have all the schoolgirls round for nude pool parties.

If you stand on the bog, you might get a better view ! Then you can complain to the estate management committee.

Fortunatly or unfortunately I am the estate management committee at this particularly site.

Better set down specific times and when they can conduct such frivolity. Maybe can sell tickets and help me pay my kids school fees

Anyone for advance bookings.

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

I am the estate management committee

How can you be a "committee"?

Originally Posted by bkkmadness

I think Loy Toy is talking more about Thai teachers with regards to poor wages though.

Definatly not at all. Foreign teachers I reconfirm.

My next door neighbour (British) rents one of our houses, he has a farang wife and a one year old daughter.
They have not given him his 15,000.00 Baht housing allowance because his case is still before the school committee (all chinese thai). They argue that he was offered a squalor apartment in the school based teachers accommodation building and should not receive an allowance.

I have heard that the school accommodation is absolutely unlivable and for a farang family.

Quite happy to pay the extra 5,000.00 Baht out of his own pocket yet they still have him waiting and after 8 months.

He also feels he has been brought here on false pretenses and had never agreed to take up the housing option at the school before arriving in Thailand.

Originally Posted by jandajoy

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

I am the estate management committee

How can you be a "committee"?

Your right again Jandajoy.

My missus is the committee and I'm the gardener.

Busted again

No, me and her together. That constitutes a committee doesn't it
Although and unfortunately I have no voting rights

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

Although and unfortunately I have no voting rights

Taxation without representation has caused trouble in the past. So I've been told.

^^^ I stand corrected NickA.

I know a P.E. teacher that came here from the UK to teach.

He gets 100,000 baht a month and has a great time teaching the kids to play soccer, badminton, track and field. etc.

^
not jarvis is it?

Originally Posted by chitown

I know a P.E. teacher that came here from the UK to teach. He gets 100,000 baht a month and has a great time teaching the kids to play truant, spit, swear, fight etc

^that's Jarvis

wow children education is definitely costly here.
I will not be making any babies for sure.
Gonna fire blanks.
Still if I did have children reckon sending to boarding school back home is better

Originally Posted by chitown

I know a P.E. teacher that came here from the UK to teach.

He gets 100,000 baht a month and has a great time teaching the kids to play soccer, badminton, track and field. etc.

Quite possibly know the same PE teacher. He also won the last Triathalon race held in Pattaya and Koh Chang in the last 6 months.

One may say he is having his time in the sun and good for him.

Better than being a boring maths or science teacher (with all due respect to all you good teachers out there in Cyber Space)

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

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not jarvis is it?

This guy is not much on the internet that I know of. I mentioned TD before to him and he said he never heard of it.

He went to Pattaya about a year ago, met a girl on the beach that claimed to be a VP at Siam and Commercial Bank and the last thing he going to have a beer with her and he woke up the next day naked with none of his stuff.

She had dropped some rohypnol in his drink.

Originally Posted by chitown

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

^
not jarvis is it?

This guy is not much on the internet that I know of. I mentioned TD before to him and he said he never heard of it.

He went to Pattaya about a year ago, met a girl on the beach that claimed to be a VP at Siam and Commercial Bank and the last thing he going to have a beer with her and he woke up the next day naked with none of his stuff.

She had dropped some rohypnol in his drink.

"VP" must mean "very prosperous".

Smart girl.

Fleeced the highest paid PE teacher in Thailand.

Originally Posted by chitown

She had dropped some rohypnol in his drink.

funny

Originally Posted by redfoot the fence

Education in Thailand is

Generally shit.

^It's nice to see you're happy about something Pat, but unfortunately on this point I do have to agree. Although I'd probably have to say that if I could put my kids in the best international school in Thailand, I'd probably prefer that than some grubby comprehensive school in Crewe

How about home school?

Anyone doing that here?

Is doing education via the Internet an option ? Education for our daughter, in the future, is a big cause for concern as we don't live near any quality schools.

I am convinced that teaching your kids reading, writing and arithmetic is all that is needed, unless they are going to be some scientist or doctor.

Teach them how to start businesses and common sense.

I subscribe to the Rich Dad Poor Dad theory in the books by Robert Kiyosaki .

great books.

Originally Posted by bkkmadness

Alternatively once they get to 10-11 just going to sit them in front of google and tell them to search and read for 8 hrs a day.

Your thinking in the right direction.
I looked into home schooling several months ago. My wife has got 2 kids 12 & 15 living in the UK with their uncaring, sad f*ck of a father.
Home schooling in the UK is increasingly popular due to falling standards, discipline, etc, etc evidenced by the poor exam achievements. Something like 200,000 kids are schooled at home; the academic subjects are supplemented by out-of-school sports/social clubs and activities where the kids can interact with their peers. All course books and computer aided teaching material (kids love computers, don't they?) can be ordered over the internet following the national curriculum from primary level to GCSE O/A level. Kids will need some adult guidance at home though.
20 hours tuition per week is all they really get in schools and without the personal attention.
Unfortunately, the Thai education system is poorly funded so not recommended (I teach at one, out of love not money). I do however notice that the local Catholic school seems to be more disciplined and turns out better students. My (Buddhist) wife went to a Catholic school in Bangkok 30+ years ago and believe me she's smart - well she found me!

A long time friend of mine here in Thailand has just returned to his place of birth in Cheshire, England.

He had 2 kids (Luk Krung) at The Regents School in Pattaya (Girl 13 and Boy 9).

I spoke to him last week and his comments were as follows;

1. For the same costs and to send his kids to the Regents he has rented a nice 3 bedroom house in Cheshire. Schooling is apparently free in England? (Not sure)

2. When his kids were tested at the new school (England) it was found that both his children were far more advanced regarding their academic ability and when compared to similarly aged children at that particular school. The daughter was actually advanced forward 1 year as she was age border line but mainly because of her test results.

Levels of teaching here must not be that bad after all or>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

All the best teachers come to Thailand.

I pay close to 700,000 a year for my two.

I admit to being very happy with the quality of their education. It's often down to individuals, my eldest had the same teacher his first two years and a very good one this year.

We've just had the good news that the youngest will have the same aforementioned teacher next year.

It does seem to rise and rise in cost though, but that awful signing on fee does do it's job.

There is one problem with the school and if it doesn't change in the next two years I'll find myself shelling out for Patana.

Originally Posted by chitown

unless they are going to be some scientist or doctor.

The thing is that you have to be prepared for that just on the off chance it happening.