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by canadhist
Mon Jul 26, 2021 11:16 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Situation in Thailand
Replies: 12
Views: 19803

Situation in Thailand

Can any teachers (new or returning) shed some light on the situation in Thailand? We are due to arrive with our kids in a week, and it seems that the situation with Covid is getting worse every single day. We are coming from the US where everything is open, schools will be in person, and vaccine rates are high. We and are kids are feeling that we are taking 10 steps backwards with this move, and are seriously considering backing out.
Is it really as bad as it looks? What is it like for teachers?
by canadhist
Sun May 02, 2021 1:22 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Situation in Thailand
Replies: 15
Views: 21879

Re: Situation in Thailand

Thank you everyone for sharing your thoughts.
Needless to say, at this point, we are thinking that the safest move is to let the school know that we are not able to come to Thailand anymore.
The news we are receiving about what is going on there (Bangkok in particular) and how the government is handling vaccines is not encouraging. We have friends there now at more than one school and we feel that the safest thing for us to do is to go back to our home country where the situation is much better.
Any advice on the best way to do this?
by canadhist
Thu Apr 15, 2021 6:29 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Situation in Thailand
Replies: 15
Views: 21879

Situation in Thailand

We accepted offers in Thailand to start August 2021. A big part of the interview process focused on discussing covid, and the HOS made a point of reassuring us that everything was open in-person and that, after a possible quarantine (paid for by the school, but he implied that this would likely not be necessary by the time we arrive) we would be in "the best place to be" covid-wise. A major selling point to us was the fact that schools have been in-person since the start of the schools year 2020-2021. We are now hearing that that is not the case, and that the country's covid situation has drastically changed and that schools have had to switch between in-person and online multiple times this school year. This was not communicated to us accurately during the interviews. We are having significant second thoughts about continuing our plan to move to Thailand in August. How would this be received by the school? Would we be blacklisted?
by canadhist
Wed Jun 12, 2019 6:17 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Breaking contract + finding new position in June
Replies: 4
Views: 5655

Breaking contract + finding new position in June

For schools that are hiring this late in the school year, would they consider hiring an applicant who was open about breaking contract at their current school?
How else can anyone be applying for a job at this point?
ie) If I am currently under contract for next school year at School A, and have recently decided that I would like to change schools, would School B, whom I assume is pretty desperate to fill a vacancy at this time of year, be willing to look past my breaking my current contract?