This is crazy, honestly. While the minister is trying to do something good for the country and education, the local school directors are destroying everything.
While I (partly) understand why teachers from Scotland, Ireland and South Africa are banned, I don't understand why black people are not allowed. If they are afraid of an accent, they can do a test during the interview and if you pass, you can be hired.
I said I understand partly the ban of teachers from Scotland, Ireland and South Africa but only partly as it can be a very good thing to have teachers from these countries.
When I decided to learn English and was in search of a good school, my first and most important priority was to pick one that has foreign teachers! I have to mention that I started from scratch, from zero, knew only a few words from TV when I started. In the first year we had a local teacher, the second year we had a girl from Scotland. The first two months she said she's going to speak textbook English without any accent so we can understand her, then she's going to speak her native Scottish. And she kept her word. Then I had American teachers the next year and during summer courses, all kinds of teachers from England and the US.
Let me tell you that it was the best decision I made and I'm really happy I got the chance to meet these wonderful people, got used to different accents.
Reading your posts over the past two years gave me the impression that Thailand is not on the right track and this is not going to end well. They need to wake up, be more open to change and welcome foreigners not chase them away.
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Yeah the Ireland and Scotland ban was definitely because of the accent and it would have been fine if they had stated the reasoning as such, but they released a press statement that Ireland, Scotland, and South Africa are not native-english speaking, which of course is wrong.
It's good that you took your education so seriously and judging by your writing I can see it was certainly a success!
Thank you for the nice comment. The truth is that school helped me a lot and for a good reason. I hope Thailand with realize these banned please can help a lot.
....although, in fairness - Whenever I went to Glasgow - I couldn't understand a f****** word they were sayin' lol