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[Stephen Jones]

[Guy Courchesne]

Good points. Very good points. Especially considering Mr. Karr and the roasting he got (and we all gave) to him here.

[laconic]

Did you see ABC's take on things?

http://abcnews.go.com/International/Story?id=3743338&page=1

[Guy Courchesne]

Ok, now here's the kind of twit journalism I chose not to engage in...

I guess it was inevitable that somebody would write this story and link it to teaching in Asia...

[laconic]

[Guy Courchesne]

[dixie]

Lets also not forget that even "back home" there are people in our country�s school system who should not be there. And there are police checks. A background check only works if you have been caught before.

[laconic]

[laconic]

[dixie]

I�m talking about background checks that elementary/highschool teachers must have before they can be in a school.

[Jetgirly]

I've been student-teaching in the public school system for two years now, as part of my B.Ed program. My criminal record check involved going to the police station and filling out a form (which I was allowed to take home to fill out). Then, I submitted the form to an officer at the police station and showed my driver's license to prove it was really me. Two weeks later, I returned to the station and picked up the same form, with three boxes checked off and a regular self-inking stamp with the police station's address on the bottom. I then took this form from my hometown in BC to Alberta and showed it at both schools where I was a student teacher... voluntarily. I was never asked to produce the form. If I'd wanted, I could have taken the form home, filled it out, checked off those boxes myself and ordered a self-inking stamp with the police station's address online, then stamped the form. Then, I could have not even produced it at the schools that I taught at, since nobody seems to care at all.

In my first year of student teaching, I felt that I had to report one of my "coworkers" (a teacher with 30+ years of experience) for making inappropriate comments about teenagers having sex. I felt nauseus for days because I was so uncomfortable with what he had said and the way he had said it, but just speaking inappropriately to a colleague is, to the best of my knowledge, not behaviour that is "punishable". I told my university liaison and my supervising teacher, and they dealt with it. Apparently it wasn't addressed with school administration because the parties involved thought I was personally offended by the subject matter, not that I was concerned for the students safety...

[william wallace]

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[The Lemon]

Well, here's the good news many have been waiting for:

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSBKK21344820071019


BANGKOK (Reuters) - Canadian pedophile suspect Christopher Paul Neil, accused of raping young boys in Vietnam and Cambodia and unmasked by a unique Interpol Internet appeal, was arrested in Thailand on Friday, police said.

After a nationwide manhunt, Neil, 32, was arrested in the early hours of the morning in countryside northeast of Bangkok, a region well off the normal foreign tourist trail.

Neil would be presented for questioning by reporters at national police headquarters in Bangkok later on Friday, but details of how he was hunted down remained sketchy.

"My officers arrested him in the countryside in Nakhon Ratchasima this morning," tourist police chief Chuchart Suwannakom told Reuters, referring to a province 250 km (150 miles) northeast of the Thai capital.

"I can't give you more details at the moment," he added.

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[soapdodger]

Result. Excellent. On the general subject, what has always disturbed me is why are certain countries paedophile magnets? What is it about the people or society there that makes them less protective of their children, especially when it is common knowledge that these beasts are homing in? Money is not the only thing. I would recommend the Thai government shoot a few. End of problem.

[QatarChic]