School in Phnom Penh is Starting to Ask for Criminal Background Checks for English Teachers in Cambodia

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AmericanSteve wrote: Mon Apr 30, 2018 1:22 pm
3. No retirement age. Experience is valuable, probably moreso in teaching than, say banking/civil service.
Has anyone come across teachers in their late 60s or early 70s?
I know a guy in Saigon, Vietnam. He is 77 now and has been teaching there for 11 or 12 years. Well respected. gets his $32 an hour for 20 - 25 hours a week.
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First drug testing; now this. Will I ever get into Milky Way School? ( best school in the galaxy in my humble opinion )
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Heng Heng Heng wrote: Mon Apr 30, 2018 3:13 pm First drug testing; now this. Will I ever get into Milky Way School? ( best school in the galaxy in my humble opinion )
i went to dur skool of Jupiter, dats y i ams stupider :crazy:
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Jamie_Lambo wrote: Mon Apr 30, 2018 5:19 pm
Heng Heng Heng wrote: Mon Apr 30, 2018 3:13 pm First drug testing; now this. Will I ever get into Milky Way School? ( best school in the galaxy in my humble opinion )
i went to dur skool of Jupiter, dats y i ams stupider :crazy:
I thought you were an analyst orbiting Uranus and watching Klingons
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that genius wrote: Mon Apr 30, 2018 6:07 pm
Jamie_Lambo wrote: Mon Apr 30, 2018 5:19 pm
Heng Heng Heng wrote: Mon Apr 30, 2018 3:13 pm First drug testing; now this. Will I ever get into Milky Way School? ( best school in the galaxy in my humble opinion )
i went to dur skool of Jupiter, dats y i ams stupider :crazy:
I thought you were an analyst orbiting Uranus and watching Klingons
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Sloth is one of the 7 deadly sins...coincidence?
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that genius wrote: Mon Apr 30, 2018 12:54 pm I know of at least 3 who will be leaving soon, good riddance.
Not for nothing, but if you were aware that a (presumably) school had in their employ, convicted criminals, is it safe to say that you vociferously made the schools management unambiguously aware of that fact, contacted the relevant ministry(ies) to report that convicted criminals were teaching children, etc?

Even if ambivalence and or bureaucratic resistance was the response, at least then your conscience would have been clear.
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You don't even know me, but you presume that this was not done.

People who know me know what was done.

Try not to make a complete idiot of yourself too obviously, OK?

Another thing to remember is that there are levels of criminality...smoking a joint or drunken driving is nothing, imo, but drug dealing, habitual serious assault or even a suggestion of sexual abuse is not tolerable.

I don't know of a single person I have met or known of who has ever been a suspect in a child abuse case I have not reported.
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that genius wrote: Mon Apr 30, 2018 6:47 pm you presume that this was not done.

I presumed nothing. I asked a question. "...is it safe to say...yadda,yadda...?"

Your insight as to how receptive the agencies were would have proved enlightening.

Anyway, you saw it as an attack, oh well. Such is communication on the internet.
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Brody wrote: Mon Apr 30, 2018 6:37 pmEven if ambivalence and or bureaucratic resistance was the response, at least then your conscience would have been clear.
Your post quite clearly implies I did not.

There is no misunderstanding.

Even gavinmac, (who is not on my fan list) and many others will attest to the fact I have consistently and vociferously campaigned for kiddy-fuckers and serious criminals to be deported at the very least.

I have not missed one single opportunity to suggest to people of importance that the law be tightened...even though I seldom meet such people.

You're preaching to the choir, and not the Catholic choir, neither.
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