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[Jared]

Hello. I'm posting this just to confirm some truths and non-truths about the recent law changes. First of all, I'm not at all surprised that there's been a law crackdown recently with the new government that exists in Thailand and I've read that there have been some school raids and some teachers had to pay 30,000 BHT then go to court. Now that's mainly for those that do border runs with tourist visas. Now I heard that you can just get a non imm B visa which you can just do a border run every 90 days. However I also heard that the border runs have also been ended. But here's the thing here. Thailand schools do not pay what teachers would like to get. And according to Ajarn.com, any school that is looking to pay the low wages that they pay which is looking for a blue eye, blond haired foreigner clutching a legally earned degree in one hand and a TESOL certificate in the other is nothing more than a pipe dream. So when I think about it, do you think that Thailand will be able to really enforce the laws and crack down on illegal teachers without changing the regulations of what a foreigner must have to be a legal teacher in Thailand? Because normally I'd expect that they'd lower the requirements. Such as if a teacher has 1 or 2 years of experience teaching or a 2 year college diploma or something like that, they should be able to get a work permit. I know that is not acceptable, however if Thailand wants to get enough teachers in the future, they will have to lower the qualifications to obtain the legal work permit. What do you think?