From: mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/features/ … 1000c.html
English-teaching jobs providing cover for pedophiles in Asia
Murder suspect John Mark Karr bites his lips as he is shown at a police news conference at Immigration office in Bangkok, Thailand Thursday, Aug. 17, 2006. (AP Photo)BANGKOK, Thailand – The English-teaching circuit in Asia is filled with transients. It is a floating network of backpackers looking to make quick cash while traveling the world, recent college graduates in search of overseas experience and those on the move with something to hide.
From: canada.com/topics/news/world … =46866&p=2
Fake teaching documents also are cheap and easy to obtain in Asia, and there are jobs for the taking. Last year in Japan, there were 4,500 foreign language schools with nearly 14,000 teachers. South Korea had 12,000 native English-speakers teaching at private schools as of May.
Websites post openings at schools across Asia, making it easy for teachers to work short stints in one country before lining up a job and jumping to another, providing perfect cover for sex offenders on the run in a region infamous for sex tourism
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Fake teaching documents also are cheap and easy to obtain in Asia, and there are jobs for the taking. Last year in Japan, there were 4,500 foreign language schools with nearly 14,000 teachers. South Korea had 12,000 native English-speakers teaching at private schools as of May.
Websites post openings at schools across Asia, making it easy for teachers to work short stints in one country before lining up a job and jumping to another, providing perfect cover for sex offenders on the run in a region infamous for sex tourism.
I do not like the idea of telling people I’m a teacher and having them immediately target me as a transient, pedophile, criminal, child molester.
It’s easy to say that the government should do this or that. It’s quite easy to say a lot of things and not do anything at all.
I do not want my profession known as a haven for child molesters and criminals. I do not want this image to attract even more criminals and pedophiles to ESL.
Any suggestions as to what WE can do, as teachers, to clean up our profession?
Are there any outlets for us to report dodgy individuals to the government?
What if we organize and suggest some ideas to the TW government.
I DO think it’s necessary for the decent folk here to somehow take a stand. In fact, I think it may be vital to saving our reputations. Even if we just speak out somehow, let the government know we’re behind any effort they make to keep the worst elements from coming to Asia, I think that might go a long way towards improving our image, which seems to be in danger of going down the drain.
What can we do? Does anyone have any ideas?