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I was promptly offered a job at a language school in Bangkok, teaching after-school lessons to high school and college students. I once ran into the head teacher of my school on his way home with a prostitute he had picked up at a bar. Drunkenly, he swung his lit cigarette into her arm, burning her, then looked down at the smoldering remnants and said, "At least it's still lit." Needless to say, this man didn't go around giving background checks to his staff (who held daily forums in the teachers' room discussing the varying quality of women in Bangkok's many sex districts), nor bother finding out if their diplomas were valid. Many teachers in Thailand do not even hold college degrees, preferring to purchase diplomas online or on the Bangkok black market.
The second most popular justification is that it's "part of their culture and who are we to interfere?" As though having sex with a prostitute in Thailand is akin to a pig-roast in Hawaii or a thermal pool in Iceland. You simply haven't experienced Thailand until you've tried it!Who the hell do these people think they are? These supervisors, these board of education officials, these school owners. Well, maybe they are not child molesters but, at the end of the day, they're doing something. If they're not pimping little boys, then they're beating their wife. If they're not beating their wife, then they're beating their dog. If they're not beating their dog, then they're beating their meat to Internet porn, assuming they can find their meat after 12 beers. If they're not beating their meat to Internet porn, then they hang out in red-light districts. . . . [John Wrenshall] and his ilk make up more of the TEFL [Teaching English as a Foreign Language] industry than any of us dare to admit.See the full content of this document
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Sex, Drugs and Esl
Like many young English teachers abroad, I was enthusiastic about - but woefully underqualified for - my new profession. I wanted to see some of the world before I transitioned to another "more respectable" job. So, after graduating i from college, I flew to Thailand and took a bus to a fishing village a few hours east of Bangkok, where I spent three weeks binge-dri...
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