Happy New Year

As we welcome in 2011, i heard that the school has just lost ANOTHER teacher! Considering he only started in September 2010 that was a fast exit.

Working with Tantiwatra

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Working with Tantiwatra School, Thung Song

I have worked for Tantiwatra School and never had any problems. The management never once questioned my style of teaching neither did they have any issues with my lesson plans.  I am sadden to see a blog writing to discredit the school as it looks like some disgruntled teacher had far too much free time on their hands to create such a blog to begin with and that's prob why management might had issues with this person!!  My wife is from Tung Soong and know that the owners have invested alot of money on the school to help improve the level of education in the local community! 

I know the owners reputation and comments on the other blog are simply not justified considering that the owners spent over 300 million baht in investing in the school to help improve the local educational standards wtihin Thung Soong area. 

I would definately send my kids there if I ever moved back to Thung Song!!!

Another blog about the school....

Just found another blog about the pleasures of work at this school, this blog doesn't seem to have much written comments but i think the pictures say it all.

Another Tantiwatra blog

Staff turn over!!

Now this is a great judge of how a school treats their staff, well this school has lost 4 teachers in the space of 5 months. These teachers haven't been sacked or asked to leave NO they all left on their on terms.
   So this makes me wonder how long the new staff will hang around and what creative lies the management can come up with to cover this up.

A school of excellence.....

While having my 2 hour plus interview the lovely manager kept going on about the school being a "School of excellence" offering the student's the best teachers and the best school environment in Nakhon Sri Thammarat.
   The teachers were constantly reminded that their salary WAS higher than most other salaries in Nakhon Sri Thammarat, but that seems to have changed are now hiring teachers will the following:

1. No teaching experience.
2. Online TEFL.

So where has this centre of excellence gone? Why are they employing these type of staff? Plain and simple = Cost cutting.

Salary is now just at the average salary for Nakhon Sri Thammarat but while taking in for account the terrible working conditions at the school, it just doesn't make sense for any teacher to accept a position at this school.

If you require any information about schools in Nakhon Sri Thammarat, please email us and we will point you in the right direction.

Getting refunded by school.

If you need or want something for your classroom you are expcected to go and buy the materials yourself (not in school time) and also pay for those materials yourself. Okay you keep the bill and give it to the mole than wears the glasses, if lucky you might get YOUR money back within a month or unlucky 6 weeks.
    Why should it take that long to refund money? This is a main reason teachers stopped buying materials for their classroom because they simply couldn't afford to wait to get refunded by the school.
    In the real and modern world (Not a world run by a Chinese family living in Thung Song) you would go to the accountant with the bill and you would get refunded within 48 hours.

Respecting your boss!

A boss should be a person that has experience in the profession that they are managing, don't you think? Being told by a person that has had about 1/10 less contact teaching hours than you how to teach is a joke!!
  Then getting a new memeber of staff that has been teaching 3 months to help manage the programme is even more of a joke....... Experienced teachers getting told how to teach by a person that has just started teaching and has less than 3 months classroom experience :)
   This is just the way things work at this school........... your voice or experience counts for NOTHING!!