Darkcel wrote: ↑Wed Oct 05, 2022 12:34 pm I wonder if Teacher Michael Strahan in Cambodia was taking HIV medication to suppress the virus? Or was he openly teaching and exposing children? Does ACE know about this? Was he not getting his health screening at the ministry?

Bad_To_Worse wrote: ↑Wed Oct 05, 2022 2:48 am
2. I hate to tell this about anyone publicly but given the situation ... Mike is HIV+ and has been since long before he came to Cambodia. In fact, it was the reason he came to Cambodia. He was teaching in South Korea the year they changed their work visa policy to require an HIV test and he knew he was HIV+ and couldn't pass it so he first moved to Vietnam and taught there for a relatively short while and then relocated to Cambodia.

Kammekor wrote: ↑Wed Oct 05, 2022 3:23 pm

Darkcel wrote: ↑Wed Oct 05, 2022 12:34 pm I wonder if Teacher Michael Strahan in Cambodia was taking HIV medication to suppress the virus? Or was he openly teaching and exposing children? Does ACE know about this? Was he not getting his health screening at the ministry?

Why would someone willingly put his life at risk? Doesn't make sense to me.

Bad_To_Worse wrote: ↑Wed Oct 05, 2022 2:48 am
2. I hate to tell this about anyone publicly but given the situation ... Mike is HIV+ and has been since long before he came to Cambodia. In fact, it was the reason he came to Cambodia. He was teaching in South Korea the year they changed their work visa policy to require an HIV test and he knew he was HIV+ and couldn't pass it so he first moved to Vietnam and taught there for a relatively short while and then relocated to Cambodia.

It seems like from this story he's been infected a long time ago (>12 years). With his lifestyle I guess he would be a full blown AIDS patient by now, or dead.

Alex wrote: ↑Wed Oct 05, 2022 3:36 pm

Kammekor wrote: ↑Wed Oct 05, 2022 3:23 pm

Darkcel wrote: ↑Wed Oct 05, 2022 12:34 pm I wonder if Teacher Michael Strahan in Cambodia was taking HIV medication to suppress the virus? Or was he openly teaching and exposing children? Does ACE know about this? Was he not getting his health screening at the ministry?

Why would someone willingly put his life at risk? Doesn't make sense to me.

Bad_To_Worse wrote: ↑Wed Oct 05, 2022 2:48 am
2. I hate to tell this about anyone publicly but given the situation ... Mike is HIV+ and has been since long before he came to Cambodia. In fact, it was the reason he came to Cambodia. He was teaching in South Korea the year they changed their work visa policy to require an HIV test and he knew he was HIV+ and couldn't pass it so he first moved to Vietnam and taught there for a relatively short while and then relocated to Cambodia.

It seems like from this story he's been infected a long time ago (>12 years). With his lifestyle I guess he would be a full blown AIDS patient by now, or dead.

I don't get your post. In many people with HIV, it can effectively be suppressed to an undetectable level at which it won't do any severe damage for a very long time (if ever).

He might or might not have gotten proper treatment, that could make a hell of a difference not just with regards to his own health but also with regards to the likelihood of him spreading HIV to others.

CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Wed Oct 05, 2022 3:41 pm English Teacher Terminated for ‘Inappropriate’ Texts With Student
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Fiona Kelliher
| Tue Oct 4, 2022 5:23 pm
A popular English teacher at the Australian Center for Education has been terminated after a series of “inappropriate” messages with a former student was leaked on social media, the school said Monday.

Michael Strahan, an American transplant who was well-known as “Teacher Michael” on platforms such as TikTok and Facebook, exchanged messages allegedly over three years with a former student in which he appeared to tell the student to “let me know when you’re 18” and joked about dating the student in exchange for scholarship money.

ACE administrators learned of the messages last Wednesday after they were initially posted and re-shared by Facebook users starting Tuesday.

“We have determined that the staff member’s communication with a student was entirely inappropriate and ceased the staff member’s employment on Friday,” a spokesperson told VOD in an email. “This is in line with our internal policies and in the best interest of our students.”

In a since-deleted apology video posted to his TikTok, Strahan acknowledged that he had sent the texts but also said his words had been taken out of context as part of a “targeted” campaign against him. Reached via Facebook Tuesday, Strahan declined to comment further.

“I’m sure that you guys have all seen the screenshots of a conversation I had years ago with an ex-student,” Strahan said in his response video, which was archived by viewers on Facebook after it was deleted. “Those were absolutely my words in that chat. I wrote those words, and aside from that, I’ve also been a victim — a target — of a hate campaign. So those two things are happening simultaneously, at the same time.”

Last Tuesday around 10 a.m, a Facebook argument broke out after Strahan posted a video complaining about motorcyclists blocking the sidewalk in Phnom Penh, according to two students and screenshots of the original posts. The video touched a nerve, and other Facebook users began responding with posts and memes.

In the comments section of a meme, an anonymous user uploaded screenshots containing Strahan’s messages with the former student, where they quickly gained traction.

“People started posting the screenshots themselves instead of the meme,” said one student who studied at ACE and declined to share his name for fear of retaliation. “Fast forward, it just started going viral from there. It was like a snowball effect.”
Full article: https://vodenglish.news/english-teacher ... h-student/

Darkcel wrote: ↑Wed Oct 05, 2022 2:09 pm

phnompenhsteve wrote: ↑Wed Oct 05, 2022 1:34 pm You don't expose people to HIV by being around them. That's now how the HIV virus works?
Secondly..most foreigners dont'get a health screening for the work permit. You pay extra to an agent and you don't need to submit the health document.

Darkcel wrote: ↑Wed Oct 05, 2022 12:34 pm I wonder if Teacher Michael Strahan in Cambodia was taking HIV medication to suppress the virus? Or was he openly teaching and exposing children? Does ACE know about this? Was he not getting his health screening at the ministry?

You're assuming a confirmed pedophile isn't having relations with his students.

And you do get a health screening if you're getting a work permit legitimately, hopefully one day the proper ministry looks into the corruption and back dates all the expats who did the "agent workaround" because what you just said is very worrying and I only assumed barflies did that method, not people with actual employment.